66 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
Often cultivated for its early flowers and handsome 
fruits, but only in its glabrous variety (Arnold Arboretum, 
etc. ). 
The following varieties and forms have been distin- 
guished : — 
A. Ovaries glabrous, 
B. Leaves pubescent and ciliate. 
Typical form. 
BB. Leaves glabrous. 
var. GLABRA, Miquel, Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. 2:271 
(1865-66); Prol. Fl. Jap. 159 (1866-67). — 
Franchet & Savatier, Enum. Pl. Jap. 2: 388 (1879). 
f. ALBIFLORA, Maximowicz, Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Pétersb. 
24:49; Mél. Biol. 10: 76 (1877). 
I have seen no specimens of this form, but suppose that 
it is a white-flowered form of the preceding variety. 
AA. Ovaries glandular; corolla pilose; leaves pubescent, 
var. GLANDULOSA, Maximowicz, 7. c. 31:58; Mél. Biol. 
12 : 481 (1886. ) 
Hondo (Maximowicz! Vidal, Maries, Makino, Mat- 
sumura ). 
A form with yellow fruits is mentioned under the name 
LL. gracilipes fructu luteo in Cat. Sem. Hort. Bot. Tokyens. 
Coll. 1902. p. 12. 
Subsect.'4. Coeruleae, subsect nov. 
This group contains only one polymorphous circumpolar 
species which shows relations to the preceding group, es- 
pecially to ZL. gracilipes, and to the Chlamydocarpi and 
Vesicariae. To LZ. gracilipes it is similar in the shape of 
the winter buds, in its general habit and in the tendency to 
produce stipules on vigorous shoots. By the same charac- 
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