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7. Tklailiantha J>UNGE. 

 Key to t/te Formos : >-s. 



(1) Leave- <>vat'- deeply t-ordate, scabrouslv dotted with white points,' re- 

 motely mucronately serrulate on the margin ......... T. jH(>:f"'>'. 



Leave- jii IK- or le-s lobate or obscurely grossly dentate. (2) 

 - Leaves softly tomento.se, ol>scurely dentate or simply mucronately re- 

 motely sen-ate ................................. T. formosana. 



Leaves Ijeset with scabrous hairs, lobate ............... T. iaiioaniana. 



Thladiantha formosana HAY ATA Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 100. Herb, 

 scaudent and voluble, branchlet- very -It-udtT sulcate, long liairy, tendrils 2- 

 part-d. L'-:i\-f< ]..nu ) ctiolod, petioles as long as blades, or shorter, pilose, 

 bladc> thick, membranaceous, angular, itumdly cordate or ovately cordatt- 

 10 cm. long 7 cm. broad, acute acuminate, margin minutely remotely denti- 

 culate, scabrid abnv>. villn^-ly pube>cent lu-m-ath. Male flowers pubernlous, 

 ),'ici-m<>-f, raceme^ long 2-3-times longer than petioles, bracts small, deciduous. 

 Calyx-tube short broadly campamilate, lobes ovately lanceolate 5 mm. long. 

 Petals patent ovately lanceolate 11 mm. long. Stamens 5, equal, anthers 1- 

 o41ed straight, filaments free. Kudiment of ovary globose. Appendicles a short 

 petal oil '1 ttuse. 



HAB. Tosan, Momsoii. 



Very much resembles T. mi<Hjior<' HOLSL., but diil'ei-s from it in having 

 jH-duncled racemes and smaller flowers which are as half as those of the al- 

 lied specie-. 



DiSTiiii;. An allied >jxvie- T. mnJlijiom HK.MSL. occurs in Central China. 



Thladiantha punctata HAY ATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa p. 

 ir.>, and Ic. 11. Formos. Fa-c. I. PI. XXXVII. Scandent, stems glabi-oa-. 

 striate, interuodes 8 cm. long. Leaves alternate petiolate, oblongo- 

 cordate or ovate. 12 cm. long, 7-i cm. bivad, cordately reniformed at the 

 base. '1\ r cm. long l:elow the Ixise, the ba-al sinus ovate acute, mai-gin 

 remotely muci-onately -errate. allx>punctate alxive, very scabnius, but 

 hispid on the co.-lu 1,-eneutli. otherwise glabixms, trinei^'ed, liitend nerves 



