, -g BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. [Voi. xvi. 



portion curved ; stigma lateral, linear, about 2i mm. long ; ovary concealed 

 within the perigone-tnbe; cylindrical, attenuated to the style above, glabrous, 

 about 2i mm. in length. Fruit slightly depressed-globose, red when mature, 

 spotted with silvery scurfs, with a sour-sweet ami slightly astringent juice, 

 pedicel, stout, short, densely covered with silvery scurfs and stellate hairs 

 (after Z. Yoshino). Fl. May. 



Nom. indig. Natsu-asadori. 



Hah. Prov, Bitchu : Sayodani in ZyobO-gori {Z. Yoshinol May, and 



Aug. 16, 1902). 



The pubescent- tomentose leaves express a peculiarity among Japanese 

 species of Elceagnus. The fruit matures in June and is edible and the 

 size is as that of Frunus tomentosa Thunb. (after Z. Yoshino). I have 

 named it in compliment to Mr. Zensuke Yoshino, of Takahashi, prov. Bitchu, 

 who discovered and collected it and kindly sent me the specimens. 



Viburnum (Lentago, Asiatica) bitchiuense Makino s[). nov. 



Shrub, attaining about 3 m. in height ; branchlets brownish-grey, 

 slender, glabrate, but those of this year furfuraceo-tomentose with stellate 

 hairs ; bud naked, narrowly oblong, furfuraceo-tomentose with stellate hairs, 

 rose-coloured. Leaves opposite, very shortly petioled, elliptical, broadly 

 ovate, or obovato-ellii)tical, obtuse or acutish at the apex, obtuse or sub- 

 cordate at the base, repand-crenate with a mucronate tip, subcoriaceo-mem- 

 branaceos, deep green and thinly pubescent with simple and stellate hairs 

 above, paler and furfuraceous with dispersed stellate hair beneath, 4-9i- cm. 

 long, 2^-7 cm. wide, the young leaves furfuraceo-tomentose ; midrib promi- 

 nent beneath ; viens 5-7 on each side, loose, erect-patent, branched and 

 anastomosing towards the margin, prominent beneath ; veinlets inconspicu- 

 ous ; petiole covered with stellate hairs, about 3-7 mm. long. Inflores- 

 cence peduncled, about 4-5 cm. across in fruit ; bracts and bracteoles 

 caducous ; peduncle straight, dispersedly furfuraceous with stellate hairs as 

 are 1st pedicels, 3-5 cm. long in fruit ; 1st pedicels umbellate, erect-patent, 

 strict, about 5 in number, about li-l| cm. long in fruit, capitately 4-5- 



flowered towards the top. Flower Fruit about 1-3 to a 1st 



pedicel, very sliortly pedicellate, approximate, oblong, about 10 mm. long, 

 5-6 mm. wide, very compressed, black when dried, crowned with a short 

 persistent style and 5-parted ovate-lobed persistent calyx. Putamen 

 oblong, piano-compressed, longitudinally 2-sulcate on one surface, but the 

 other surface longitudinally 2-ridged and the central groove deeper. Seed 

 piano-compressed, about 9 mm. long, 41 mm. broad. 



