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ceous, glabrous, not exserted. Calyx minute, very short, trunc- 

 ate, annular, slightly crenate, glabrous, persistent. Corolla 

 infundibuliform-campanulate; tube wide, very shortly contracted 

 at the base, villose internally ; lobes 5, shorter than the tube, 

 rounded. Stamen 1, exserted, glabrous, inserted in the lower 

 part of the corolla-tube ; filament linear-filiform ; anther elliptical- 

 oblong, with globulous pollen, f mm. long. Style 1, erect, 

 somewhat shorter than the corolla, rather stout, glabrous ; 

 stigma capitate. Ovary obovoid-globose, with an adnate 

 pubescent gibbosity on one side. Fruit (immature) globular, 

 crowned w^ith a persistent calyx, thinlj^ puberulent ; the adnate 

 appendage dilated, elliptical, pubescent, 1|— 2 mm. long, w^ider 

 and longer than the fruit itself; bracteole under the fruit then 

 much enlarged and about 4 mm. long, 3^ mm. broad, foliaceous, 

 oval-orbicular, reticulato-veined, erect, viridescent. 



Nom. Jap. Otoko-ominaeshi (T. Aiakino). 



Hab. Prov. Higo : Mt. Fukaba (T. Makinol Sept. 1, 1907). 



A hybrid established in wild between two species of Patrinia 

 villosa Juss. and P. scabiossefolia Link., which are common in 

 Japan, and it is very rare through Japan, though is found rather 

 abundantly at its home. 



Myrica rubra Sieb. et Zucc. 



a. rubra (Sieb. et Zucc.) Makino. 



Myrica rubra Sieb. et Zucc. in Abhandl. Akad. Muench. IV. 

 3 (1846), p. 230, n. 806. 



Myrica Nagi C. DC. in DC. Prodr. XVI. 2, p. 151 (1864) ; 

 Miq: Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 293 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 597 ; 

 Engl, in Engl, et Prantl, Nat. Pfl.-Fam. III. 1, p. 27, non 

 Thunb. 



Fruit rubric when mature. 



Nom. Jap. Yama-momo. 



Hab. Japan, central and southern. 



/?. alba Makino, var. no v. 



Fruit white or albescent when mature. 



Nom. Jap. Shiro-momo. 



Hab. Japan, uncommon. 



