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anther. Ovary subdepressed-globose, glabrous, somewhat 

 exserted upon the calyx-tube in height, 2-3-celled, slightly 

 2-3-sulcate longitudinally ; style erect, exserted, stout, longer 

 than the ovary, about 2-3 mm. long, 2-3-fid ; arms recurvo- 

 erectpatent, terete, stigmatose towards the top ventrally. 

 Fruit (immature) wnth a persistent circular calyx-tube at the 

 base, obovoid-globose, glabrous, nigresent when dry, about 

 4mm. across; pedicel gracile, strict, glabrous, 7-11 mm. long. 



Norn: Jap. Siebold-no-ki (a vernacular name in Nagasaki). 



Hab. Prov. Hizen : Nagasaki, cult. {Zentarb Tashirol; 

 T. Makino ! ; T. Hirotsu ! herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo ; 

 /. Matsumura and G. Koidzumil herb, ibid.), Arikawa in Isl. 

 Nakadori (5. Takairal comraun. Z. Tashiro, Aug. 15, 1904). 



A species with large leaves. This tree at Nakagawa-g6 in 

 Nagasaki, now called by the name of Siebold-no-ki (namely 

 Siebold's Tree), is said to have been planted by Dr. von Siebold. 



Patrinia hybrida Makino in Bot. Mag. Tokyo, XXII. 

 (1908), p. 167, Miscel. =Patrima villosa Juss. x P.scabiosx- 

 folia Link. 



A robust herb, attaining about li m. in height. Stem 

 erect, terete, reflexly puberulent, green, oppositely ramose above. 

 Leaves opposite, pinnatiparted, but passing into the small 

 entire lanceolate leaves towards the top, membranaceous, very 

 thinly pubescent, largest ones attaining about 23 cm. long, 

 15 cm. wide ; lateral segments 1-5 on each side, lanceolate 

 to ovato-laneeolate, acuminate, laxly coarse-dentate, the lower 

 ones smaller and distant each other ; terminal segment larger, 

 oblong or lanceolate, acuminate, coarsely dentate. Cymes 

 oppositely ramose ; branches gracile, divaricate, many-ramulose, 

 many-flowered at the top, densely reflexo-puberulent as well as 

 ramules and pedicels; bracts angustately leafy below, but 

 smaller and linear above ; bracteoles subulate or linear-subulate, 

 obtuse, ciliated. Flowers minute, pale-yellow, not much dense[ 

 very shortly pedicellate, about 2mm. across; pedicel about 

 fmm. long; bracteole under the flower rounded, membrana- 



