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recurvo Acha3ma semiliinaria, 1|- mm. longa, 1^ m.m. lata, peri- 

 carpiis crustacois flavescentibus glabris, stylis obliquis persistenti- 

 bus. Semina achaenio conformia, testa membranacea. 



Hab, Mai'uyama, leg. T. Kawakami et B. Hayata, Juli. 1908. 



Near Ficus glandidifera Wall., but quite distinguishable by 

 the cordate base of of the leaves. 



Picus obscura Blume.; Forbes et Hemsl. Tnd. Fl. Sin. 11. p. 464 ; 

 Matsiim. et Hayata Enum. PI. Formos, p. 379. 



Hab. Uiaisha, leg. N. Konishi, Sept. 1907, (No. 64). 



Ficus rapiformis Boxb. " Fl. Ind. III. p. 551 "; Wight Ic. PL Ind. 

 Or. t. 637. 



Hab. Kötöshö, leg. T. Kawakami et U. Mori, 1907, Aprili. 

 (No. 2470). 



Distrib. 



Compared with a specimen so labelled at Kew. The species 

 is reduced to F: hucantaioma Poir. by some authors. 



Ficus taiwaniana Hayata sp. nov. Bamuli glabri, graciles, 

 fusco-cinerascentes, cortice undo demum soluto. Folia alterna, 

 petiolata, stipulata, obovato-rhomboidea, 8 cm. longa, 3J cm. lata, 

 apice CQspidato-acuminata, basi cuneato-acuta, leviter obliqua, 

 utrinque glabra, subtus pailidissima, venis primariis utrinque latere 

 5-6, a Costa angulo 40° egressis, prope marginem arcaatis anasto- 

 mosantibus, margino sursum grosse 2-3-dentata, dentibus obtusis, 

 deorsum intégra, vel omnia intégra, petiolis 8 mm. longis, stipulis 

 lanccolatis ?> mm. longis. Beceptaculum ad axillas foliorum superi- 

 orum solibiiiuin, pedunculatum, (pedunculis J-l cm. longis, pyri- 

 formi-ovoideum 12 mm. loiigum 8 mm. latum, apice acutum 



