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Synopsis
Excerpt from Materials for a Flora of Formosa: Supplementary Notes to the Enumeratio Plantarum Formosanarum and Flora Montana Formos, Based on a Study of the Collections of the Botanical Survey of the Government of Formosa, Principally Made at the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
To mention the number of species of the flora'34 of the island, known to us up to the present time, there are, in the Enumeratio, 1999 species belonging to 701 genera and 153 families. In my Flora. Montana, 392 species are mentioned belonging to 266 genera and 70 families; in the present work, I have mentioned 785 species belonging to 843 genera and 109 families, thus adding to our present knowledge of Formosan flora, 567 species, 72 genera and 2 families. Excluding all these species which appear for a second or third time, in the above three papers, the total number of the plants of the island is 2660 species belonging to 836 genera and 156 families. The following list shows genera added to those mentioned in our former publications. Most of them are new to the flora of the island.
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