10G 



ROTA NTCA L MA GA Z1NE. [Vol. x vm. 



1903); Prov. Kai : Mt. Shichimen (T. Tnui and F. A*hfzaiea\ herb. So. 

 Coll Imp. Univ. Tokyo, July 28, 1895). 



Abelia spathulata Sieb. et Zucc var. sanguinea Makino in Bot. 

 Mag., Tokyo, XII. (1898) p. 17. 



A shrub, attaining about 2mm. or more in height; branches terete, fer- 

 rugineo-oastaneous, castaneous, or griseo-umber, glabrous ; branchlets slender, 

 glabrous. Leaves opposite, very shortly petiolate, ovate or elliptical-ovate, 

 attenuatedly long-acuminate, laxly pauci-pluri-depresscd-mncronato-serrate, 

 green and thinly pubescent above, paler and pubescent along the midrib 

 below and often thin-pubescent on.the midrib above and veins and vein- 

 lets beneath, ciliated, often margined with purple, 1-7 cm. long, ^-3 cm. 

 broad; - veins few or sometimes several on each side, the stronger veins is- 

 sued from the lower part of the midrib, veinlets numerously reticulated 

 beneath. Flowers geminate at the top of the very short peduncle but often 

 solitary by the arrest of one flower ; peduncle shorter than petiole, ter- 

 minal on branchlets of this year, usually puberulent, |4|miD. long; bracts 

 6, minute, situated at the top of the peduncle, ovate to ovato-oblong, 

 acute, thicker below, thinly pubescent and ciliated. Calyx 5-divided ; lobes 

 patulous, spathulato-oblong, attenuated below, rounded at apex, entire, 

 thinly chartaceous, often thinly pilose externally, but glabrous internally, 

 ciliated, light green shaded with reddish colour, with delicately reticulated 

 and reddish veins, the superior 3 4-G mm. long, the lower 2 very slightly 

 larger and 5- nearly 7mm. long in flower, persistent. Corolla campanulato- 

 infundibuliform, roseo-sanguineous, much longer than calyx, li-2Jcm. long, 

 thinly puberulent with minute short glandular hairs externally, the lower 

 portion abruptly contracted into a narrow straight tube, the upper portion 

 white on the lower surface internally with reticulated orange veins ; limb 

 snb-bilabiate, somewhat obliquely 5-lobed, very minutely ciliated, the upper 

 2 lobes rounded; the lower 3 lobes ovato-rounded, villose with white hairs 

 internally, the mid-lobe produced and larger. Stamens included, inserted to 

 the corolla-tube, the upper' 2 longer ; filament filiform, white, thinly and 

 minutely pilose ; anther oblong, introrse, white, adnate, bifid at the base 

 Ovary inferior, narrowly cylindrical, minutely striate longitudinally, longer 

 than the calyx, but shorter than the corolla, light green, minutely pilose, 

 6-10 mm. long; style erect, straight, nearly equal to the corolla in height, 

 slightly exceeding stamens, filiform, thinly pubescent; stigma terminal, or- 

 bicular, depressed-capitate. Gland minute, short and broad, refuse at the 

 apex, yellowish. Flowers in May-June. 



