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plus minus obliqua, nigricantia, nitida, 2J mm. in diametro. 



Hab. in monte Kolioshô ; Fukö, 1898, Mart. 



Near M. cocliinchinensis, but differs from it in having less 

 ecliinato capsules, and much broader, tricuspidate, irregularly dentate 

 leaves. 



Mallotus paniculatus Muell. Aeg. in linnsea XXXIV. p. 189, et 

 in DC. Prodr. XV.-2, p. 965. 



Hab. Tappansha, leg. S. Nagasawa, Oct 1905, (No. 713). 



DiSTRIB. 



Observ. I think this is quite distinct from M. cocliinchinensis 

 Lour, to which it is reduced by W. B. Hemsley in Ind. Fl. Sin. II. 

 p. 439. 



JExcœcama Linn. 



Excoecaria crenulata Wight var. formosana Hayata n. v. 



Excœcaria crenulata Hayata Rev. Euphorb. Bux. Jap. p. 60, 

 (non Wight). 



Rami vahdiusculi, rugosi, fusco-rubeseentes, ramulis subgracili- 

 bus. Folia opposita, petiolata, oblongo-lanceolata, 10 cm. longa, 

 3 cm. lata, apice acuminata, (acuminibus 15 mm. longis), basi 

 rotundato-acuta, remote et obscure crenulato-serrulata, crenis ob- 

 tusis, venis primariis utrinque latere 12, a costa angulo 70 egressis, 

 ai'cuatis, utraque pagine concoloria, membranaceo-coriacea. Flores 

 minores spicati, spicis axillaribus, vol ad apiccm ramulorum termi- 

 nalibus, cylindraceis dense floriferis, circ. 1 cm. longis, pedunculis 

 5 mm. longis. Fl. J : ad partes superiores spicarum dense spirali- 

 ter dispositi, sessilos basi 1-bractoati ot 2-bracteolati, bracteis 

 crassiusculis latissimis 1.^ inm. latis, J mm. longis, breve cuspidatis 

 utraque latere aurieulato-glandnlosis, bracteolis ad basin bractearum 



