MATERIALS FOR A FLORA OF FORMOSA. i9 



Observ. a small tree ; leaves large, oblong, 30 cm. long, 

 15 cm. broad membranaceous, nerves distinct, petioles 6 cm. 

 long. .Panicles 15 cm. long, loosely flowered. Flowers polygamous. 

 Calyx campannlate 5-lobed, lobes lanceolate hairy. Fl. J : staminal 

 column shorter than the calyx, decliniDg, anthers sessile on the 

 outside of the very short lobes, forming a globular terminal head. 

 Fl. ^. : ovary stalked, 4-lobed, with anthers at its base, style 

 declining, stigma 4-lobed,, tomentose. Capsules fleshy, leather-like, 

 thick, ovate, beaked, sessile, 5-6 cm. long, bright scarlet, slightly 

 velvety. The plant is not indigenous to Formosa ; but comes from the 

 opposite continent and is in the island found only in cultivation. 



The present Sterculia is near S. lanceotata Cav. ; but difftn-s 

 from it in the calyx with lanceolate lobes. 



l^terosperinuîn Schreb. 



Fterospermum formosanum Matsum. in Matsum. et Hayata 

 Enum. PI. Formos. p. 62. 



This is very like, or perhaps the same as, a speciuien from 

 Borneo, preserved at Kew, labelled P. fiiscum Kuth. ? , which 

 specimen, however, is certainly different from the type o£ the 

 named species. 



Tiliaceae. 



Sloanea Linn. 



Sloanea hongkongensis ITemsl. in Hook. Ic. PI. XXVII. (1900) 

 t. 2628. 



DisTRiB. Hongkonçr. 



