14 BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. rvoi. xvi. 



Mespilus Sieboldi V,\. Bijtlr. p. 1102, (1826); Walp. Repert. II. p. 54. 



Fhotinia Sieholdi G. Don. 



liaphwlepia japonica yit;b. et Ziicc, El. Jap. I. (1835) p. 162, tab. 

 85, et in Abhandl. Akatl. Muench. IV. 2, p. 130 ; Walp. Repert. II. p 

 57; C. Koch in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lngd.-Bat. I. p. 250; IMiq. Prol. Fl. Jap 

 p. 229, excl. syi). Thunb. ; II. W. in Ann. Hort. et Bot. II. p. 25, cum 

 tab.; A. Gray in Perry's Exped. Jap. p, 311, et Bot. Jap. p. 387; Decne. 

 Mem. Fam. Pomac. p. 133; Franch. et Sav. Emm). PI. Jap, I. p. 142; 

 Kanitz Antlioph. Jap. p. 29 ; Hook. til. in Curtis's Bot. Mag. sub tab. 

 5510 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 108, in nota ; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 181 ; 

 Engl, et Maxim, in Engler's B;it. Jahrb. VI. p. 63 ; Forbes et HemsK 

 in Journ, Linn. Soc. XXIII. p. 264; Yatabe Icouogr. Fl. Jap. p. 89, tab. 

 25; Koehne Gatt. Pomac. p. 21, tab. 2, fig. 15, b; Focke in Engl, et 

 Prantl Die Nat. Pflanzenfam. III. 3, p. 25 ; Ito efc Matsum. Tent. Fl. Lutch. 

 I. p. 191 ; Palib. Consp. Fl. Kor. I. p. 76. 



liapldolepis ovata Hortul. ex Decne. 



Hah. Japan. 



Var. Mertensii (ISieb. et Zucc) Makino. 



liapldolepis Mertensii Siel). et Zucc. Fl. Jap. I. (1835) p. 164, et in 

 Abhandl. Akad. Muench. IV. 2, p. 130 ; Walp. Repert. II. p. 57. 



llapliiolepis ? integerrima Hook, et Arn. Bot I'eech. Voy. (1841) p. 

 263 ; Walp. 1. c. ; ]3enth. Fl. Hongk. p. 108, in nota. 



liapldolepis japonica var. inte(je.rriiiia Hook fil. in Curtis's Bot. Mag. 

 tab. 5510 ; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 181 ; Ito et Matsum. Tent Fl. 

 Lutch. I. p. 192. 



Hah. Japan 



Var. minor Makino var. nov. 



Shrub, many-ramose, densely leaved. Branches erect or ascending, 

 terete, glabrous, but the young shoots thinly tomentose as are most young 

 leaves. Leaves sparse throughout branchlets above, patulous, approximate, 

 petioled, oblong-lanceolate or narrowly oblong, acutish-obtuse, acute and 

 sli'^htly decurrent at the base, crenato-serratc or entire, coriaceous, shining 

 and deep-green above, paler and venose beneath, glabrous, but youngest ones 

 thinly tomentose as mentioned above, 2-5icm. long, l-2icm. broad, persist- 

 ent; petiole compressed, 4-8nnu. long; stipules subulate, much shorter 

 than the petiole, deciduous. Panicle contracted ; flowers smaller. 



Hah. Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, Bot. Gard. Koishikawa, cult. (Herb. ! 8c. 

 Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, May 19, 1S80; T.iVaMnol May 20, 1890, May 

 1896). 



