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Carpinus japonic a var. Maxim, in Mel. Biol. I.e. 



A 



Nom. Jap. 0-kumashide. 

 Hah. Japan. 



Rhamnus (Eurhamnus) Sieboldiana Makiuo, sp. nov. 



A small deciduous tree, with spinous branchlets ; branchlets 

 elongate, terete, but often striate when dry, smooth, glabrous, 

 cinereous, cinereo-umber, or cinereo-castaneous, ver\' thinly dis- 

 persed with minute punctiform inconspicuous, lenticels, leaf-scars 

 prominent ; bud-scales deciduous, ovato-oblong, obtuse, entire, 

 concave, crustaceo-membranaceous, darkish below, fulvous and 

 thining above, retrorsel^y densely ciliated with colourless hairs, 

 2-nerved towards the centre, -t-6 mm. long. Leaves subop- 

 posite or alternate, sometimes opposite, petiolate, obovato- 

 oblong, obovato-elliptical, obovato-oval, oblong, or elliptical, 

 shortly projecting- acute or obtuse at apex, acute or cuneate at 

 base, obscurely crenate with very minute mucros, chartaceo- 

 membranaceous, glabrous but thinly patently piloso-pubescent 

 on the midrib and veins beneath, green on both surfaces, but 

 often flavescent or more or less nigrescent when drj^ 3-21 cm. 

 long, 2-8|cm. broad; midrib yellowish green, prominent 

 beneath, impressed on the upper surface ; veins pale green, 4-10 

 on each side, long, slender, ascending, prominent beneath, im- 

 pressed above ; veinlets minutelj^ anastomosing beneath ; petiole 

 very thinly patently pubesent, terete, canaliculated in front, 

 yellowish green, G— 25 mm. long ; stipules free, one on each side, 

 caducous, setaceo-linear or narrowly linear, 1— nerved, ciliated, 

 shorter than petioles, 4-8 mm. long. Flowers (female) small, 

 pedicellate, appear on foliiferous branchlets of this year, 3-5— 

 fasciculate, axillary, shorter than petioles, viridescent but nigres- 

 cent when drj' ; pedicels filiform, glabrous, 6-7 mm, long. 

 Calyx glabrous, 2^-3 mm. long ; tube short, rounded at base, 

 cupuliform, wholly lined with a thin disk internal!}' ; lobes 4, 

 narrowly deltoid, acutish, entire, 3— nerved, about 2 mm. long. 

 Rudimentary stamens 4, minute, inserted on the throat, alternate 

 with calj'x-segments, erect ; filament subulate, longer than the 



