MATERIALS FOE A FLOEA OF FOEMOSA. 205 



Hab. Tainan, leg. T. Kawakami et Gr. Nakahaea, Feb. 1906, 

 (No. 1073) ; in orizetis Snihenkiaku, leg. U. Faueie, Juni. 1903. 



DisTEiB. China : Kwangtung, Fokien. India, Malay and the 

 Philippines. 



Boragineae. 

 JBothriospeï'jïium Bunge. 



Bothriospermum tenellum Fisch, et Mey. var. majusculum 

 Hayata n. n. Herba strigosa 20-30 cm. alta, caulibns pilis 

 strigosis patentibus rectis obtectis. Folia radicaha obovato- 

 spathulata, 7 cm. longa, 23 mm. lata, apice apicnlata, basi longe 

 attenuata, margine irregnlariter denticulata, vel snbintegra, snpra 

 pilis strigosis rectis longis parce dispersa, et pilis brevioribus 

 mollis pubescentia, subtns pilis mollis pubescentia ; folia caulina 

 obovato-oblonga 5 cm. longa, 17 mm. lata, apice acnta, basi breve 

 attennata. Eacemi pance remoteqne florati, (floribns ad axillas 

 bractearum sohtariis, cernnis), pance ramosi, ramis divaricatis. 

 Calyx 5-partitus, segmentis oblongis 4 mm. longis, IJ mm. latis, 

 utraque facie longe strigosis. Corolla campanulata, 6 mm. longa, 

 5-lobata, tnbo 3 mm. longo fauce sqnamis trnncatis reflexis in- 

 structo, lobis oblonge -rotundati s , 3 mm. longis. Stamina 5, medio 

 tubi affixa, filamentis brevibus vel snbsessilibus, antheris oblongis 

 1 mm. longis. Ovarium depresso-globosum 1 mm. longum, stylo 

 validiusculo 1 mm. longo. 



Hab. Kelung, leg. S. Nagasawa, Mai. 1908, (No. 375). 



The present variety differs from the type in having much 

 lari^er flowers and fruit. 



