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acuminata, 7-15 cm. longa, 6-14 cm. lata, margine serrulata, 

 3-nervia, basi supra 2-glandulosa, stipulis lanceolatis linearibus. 

 Flores monœcii subsessiles. SpicaB terminales simplices, fioribus J 

 et Ç parvis secus rhachin glomeratis, bracteis minutis. Alabas- 

 trum floris J depresso-globosum tetragonum, segmentis valvatis. 

 Flores J apertientes 5 mm. in diametro, sepalis 4 triangularibus 

 acutis 1 J mm. longis, intus glabris, extus sursum glanduloso- 

 punctatis. Stamina 8, biseriatim disposita, filamentis crassis, basi 

 in annulum connatis^ antheris globosis introrsis, utrinque emarginatis 

 dorsifixis, connectivis antice inter loculos, loculis distinctis 

 apice connatis. Ovarii rudimentum 0. Fl. Ç : sepala 5, imbricata, 

 lanceolata, acuminata, 2-J cm. longa, ovarium superantia, extus 

 pubescentia intus glabra, inaequalia, intimo minuto. Ovarium 

 globosum 3-loculare, (ovulis in loculis solitariis), pubescens, stylis 

 distinctis, linearibus, indivisis, basi connatis, angulo 180° divari- 

 catis intus papillosis, 5 mm. longis apice acuminatis descedento- 

 recurvatis, utrinque pubescentibus. 



Hab. Liukiu, leg. J. Matsumuea, 1897 ; Kumeshima, leg. 

 II. KuEUiWA, 1898. 



Near A. treinoides Muell. Aeg., but differs from it in having 

 conspicuously serrated leaves. The leaves of the other species are 

 mostly obscurely serrated. 



Jlallotits T.ori;. 



Mallotus formosanus Hayata sp. nov. Eami fusco-purpuras- 

 centes, leviter longitudinaliter rugulosi, lenticellis minutis notati, 

 ramulis gracilibus indumentis mollissimis rubro-albicantibus ob- 

 tectis. Folia longo petiolata, late quhKjuangularia, divaricate 

 tricuspidata, 7 cm. longa, 8 cm. lata, apice cuspidata, basi truncate- 



