垂花蓬萊葛

Glabrous woody vines without tendrils. Stems terete, green. Leaves simple, opposite, coriaceous; petioles 5-9 mm long; blades elliptic-ovate, 3-7 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, acuminate at apex, attenuate-acuminate at base, glabrous on both surfaces, entire, green above, pale green beneath, lateral veins 3-6 pairs. Flowers axillary, usually solitary, rarely in 2-3 flowered cymes, peduncles about 3-8 mm long, bracts narrowly triangular, ca. 1mm long. Flowers creamy; pedicels 7-9 mm long; calyx 5-merous, widely depressed obovate, ca. 1 mm long and wide, glabrous, margins ciliate; corolla depply 5-lobed, the lobes lanceolate, ca. 6 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, recurved, subglabrous, acute at apex, base united for ca. 1 mm high; stamens 5, coherent, the anther 5-6 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, fulvous, the connective white, narrowly triangular, ca. 3 mm long, 1 mm wide, the filament very short, dorsifixed; style slender, 3.5 mm long, slightly exerted above the coherent anthers. Fruits ca. 1 cm across, dark red.

TAICHUNG: Wuling Farm, Shen 412. PINGTUNG: Chachayalaishan, Yang 30451.

Japan. In Taiwan, known only from two collections, in Chachayalaishan, ca. 900 m alt., and Wuling Farm, ca. 2000 m alt., respectively.