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basi hand squarnatus basi 5mm. in diametro sectionis subrectus suberectus seel 

 plus minus recurvus a basi usque ad medium efoliatus rectus a medio ad apicem 

 foliatus plus minus flexuosus. Folia alterna a se 2-3 cm. remota dorsiventraliter 

 disposita ovato-oblouga crassiuscula in exsiccato tenuiter chartacea 7|-9 cm. 

 longa 3-4cm. lata apice caudato-acumiuata (caudis ^-Icm. longis apice obtusis) 

 basi rotunda ta integra glaberrirna supra in vivo viridissima subtus pallidissima 

 parallelo-nervia, nervis supra impressis subtus elevatis, petiolis 7-15 mm. longis 

 basi cum pulvino articulatis glabris. Flores axillares solitarii nutantes, pedicellis 

 2 cm. longis glabris sub apice articulatis, stipitibus periauthii 1-2 mm. longis. 

 Perianthium late campanulatum cum lobis 13-1 5 rnm. longurn latius quam 

 longius, tubo obconico 3 mm. longo, lobis 6 patentibus medio sursum subito 

 exteriore reflexis 11-10 mm. longis circ. 5 mm. latis apice obtusis granulato- 

 niuricatis basi baud contractis 3-nerviis niargiue teuuissimis plus minus irnbri- 

 catis glabris. Stamina 6 lobis perianthii opposita, filamentis (vel laciniis corona?) 

 valde dilatatis ex apice tubi perianthii oriundis 7mm. longis 4mm. latis glabris 

 usque ad medium se connatis coronam formantibus apice profunde 2-lobatis, lobis 

 linearibus 3 mm. longis 1mm. latis, autlieris sub sinu inter lobos filamento- 

 rum sitis ovato-oblougis 2^ mm. longis limm. latis apice acutis apiculatis basi 

 2-lobatis. Ovariuin ovoideum sessile 4 mm. longum 3-loculare 3-lobatum, (lobis 

 medio 1-sulcatis), giabrum medio transverse leviter constrictum apice ad styluin 

 abeuns, stylo columniformi 3 mm. longo glabro apice stigrnatoso dense minute 

 globuloso-setulifero, ovulis in quoque loculo 6 horizontaliter dispositis anatropis. 

 Bacca globosa circ. 1cm. in diametro fusco-purpm'ascens 4-5-sperina. Semina 

 subglobosa plus minus angulata 5 mm. in diametro apice uinbonata, umbonibus 

 rubescentibus, testa membranacea ; albumen osseum. 



HAB. Mt. Arisan : Niuiandaira, leg. B. HAYATA et TAKEO ITO, Aprili. 1915, 

 (fructus); Mt. Arisau, leg. S. SASAKI et B. HAYATA, Jan. 1915, fl. et fr. (typus!) ; 

 Tozan, leg. G. NAKAHARA, Oct. 1905. 



It is with some hesitation that I have referred this species to Disporopsis, 

 whose original description is rather too imperfect to be clearly understood. To 

 begin with the perianth, the description runs "perigoniuni corolliuum, carnpa- 

 nulatum, basi leviter saccatum, segmentis 6, subtequalibus, crassiusculis, uniner- 

 viis, tubo duplo longioribus." So far, this agrees fairly well with our plant. 



