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brous and sometimes armed with a few incurved spreading 

 prickles, 1 y, -.7 cm. long. ; stipules adnate below, subulate- 

 lanceolate, sbarply pointed, thin, glabrous, entire and minu- 

 tely glandular-margined, 3-11 mm. long in the free portion, 

 veins running upwards. Cyme terminal and often in the 

 axil of the uppermost leaf, loose ; peduncle filiform, with 

 small bracts which hâve taper-tipped and glandular-margined 

 linear stipules ; pedicel filiform, erect patent except an erect 

 central one, glabrous 17,,-3"7, cm. long. Flower about 

 13 mm. across. Calyx shallowly campanulate, 5-fid ; the tube 

 shortlyand broadly bbconical,thick, glabrous, but pubescent, 

 at the bottom internally ; lobes erect-patent in flower, but en- 

 larged in size and reflexed together with the tube in fruit, 

 deltoid-ovate, with a minute and narrow simple or trifid 

 acumen at obtuse or sometimes nearly emarginate apex, 

 entire and often loosely glandular-hairy on the margin, 

 woolly-pubescent towards the margin ; veins obscure super- 

 ficially. Petals 5, white, small, subrhombeo-orbicular, round 

 ad the apex, clawless and broadly obtuse at the base, en- 

 tire, thin, with fine and flabellate veins, 4 7g "-5 'mm. long, 

 4: l /- 2 D i / 2 mm. broad. Stamens numerous, inserted on the 

 throat of the calyx-rtube, erect, unequal in length, very 

 slightly shorter than the calyx-lobes ; filaments filiform. 

 sharply pointée! at the apex, glabrous; anther ovato-ellipti- 

 cal, cordate at the base. Ovary-cluster globose, about 3 mm. 

 across, sessile ; ovaries minute, numerous, crowded on a 

 globose réceptacle; sessile, reniform-lunate, laterally com- 

 pressed, glabrous, but pubescent above in the ventral su- 

 ture ; style filiform, flexuous ; stigma terminal, dilated. Fruit 

 scarlet, ovoid-globose, about 7-10 mm. long, accompanied 

 with dried filaments and more or less enlarged reflexed 

 persistent calyx ; carpels numerous sacculent, obovoid- 

 elliptical about 4-5 mm. long ; stone hard, obovately reni- 

 form-elliptical, isabel-brown, finely foveolate-rugose, about 

 2 mm. long. 



Japon : Prov. Tosa : mont Tebako (T. Makino ; R. Ya- 



