臺灣之大戟科植物

The Euphorbiaceae of Taiwan

This is a taxonomic study of the family Euphorbiaceae of the island Taiwan. An attempt is made to account for every published binomial pertaining to this family as recorded from Taiwan in all botanical literatures, to trace and cite the sources of all these names and to clarify the often complicated synonymy. The work is mainly based on the specimens kept in the herbarium of Botanical Department, National Taiwan University. and is supplemented by material from the herbarium of Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, specimens of which are cited with the abbreviation ''FRI''. As early as in 1906, Matsumura and Hayata in their ''Enumeratio Plantarum Formosanarum'' (in Journ. Coll Sci. Imp. Univ. Tokyo 22), recorded 24 genera, 68 species and 1 variety of Formosan Euphorbiaceae-including 5 cultivated genera and many cultivated species as well as the genus Daphniphyllum.