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terete, very minutely glandular, straight but curved downwards at the top, 

 2-5 cm. long; bracts caducous, very loosely sparse on the peduncle, subulate, 

 linear to oblong-linear, or linear-spathulate, obtuse or acutish, thickish, 

 punctate and minutely glandular externally, about .3-10 mm. long, some- 

 times the superior 1 or rarely 2 developed into the leaf and attaining 

 about 9cm. long; bracteoles placed at the base of pedicels, caducous, 

 subulate to subulato-oblong, usually obtuse, concave, thick, minutely gland- 

 ular externally, punctate, greenish, 3-4$ mm. long. Flower white, in- 

 odorous, 9-10 mm. across. Calyx deeply 5-parted, spreading, but erect 

 after flower, glabrous, shorter than the corolla ; lobes oblong or narrowly 

 oblong, obtuse, entire, 2-2| mm. long, pale rose below and light green 

 above. Corolla deeply 5-parted, campanulato-rotate, revolute above, 

 glabrous, inpunctate, thickish, deciduous ; lobes oblong-ovate, acute, entire, 

 21-3 mm. across, covered with minute papilloso-glandular below internally 

 under lens. Stamens erect, shorter than the corolla, inserted to the base 

 of the corolla, glabrous ; filament very short, subulate ; anther connivent, 

 deltoid-lanceolate, acute, bi-anriculate with acutish lobes at base, introrse, 

 basifixed, about 3J mm. long, yellow but fulvous after bursting. Ovary 

 ovoid-globose, smooth, glabrous, punctate, viridescent, about 1| mm. across, 

 1-celled, sub-several-ovuled ; style erect, filiform, glabrous, slightly exceeding 

 stamens, about 4mm. long; stigma terminal, not thick. Fruit red, globose 

 and hardly depressed, minutely concave at top, smooth, shining, with 

 the reflexed persistent calyx at base, 1-seeded, 9 mm. across ; pedicel 

 6-11 mm. long; peduncle attaining about 1\ cm. long. Flowers in July. 

 Hob. Tokara Archip.: Isl. Naka-no-shima, spont. (Y. Tashirol 1890); 

 Prov. Tosa: Sakawa, cult. (71 Makino\ 1897); Prov. Higo: Kurokami- 

 mura in Hotaku-gori, spont. in Bamboo grove (K Nakagaioa ! Nov. 29, 

 1897); Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, Bot. Card. Koishikawa, cult. (Herb.! Sc. 

 Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Aug. 23, 1883), and cultivated from Mt. Kiyo- 

 sumi, prov. Awa=Boshu (T. Mah'nol July 1904). 



This is allied to Ardisia crispa A. DC. ( = Bladhia crispa Thunb.), 

 but differs apparently from it, by much narrower and inpunctate leaves ; 

 scale (caducous)-bearing and often leafless peduncles ; shorter and stouter 

 pedicels ; usually simple umbel (though sometimes is compound). This is 

 found growing wild in wooded places in middle and southern Japan, 

 but it is also cultivated ; under the cultivation there are various garden 

 forms. The specimen from Tokara Archipelago, collected by Mr. Yasusada 

 Tashiro as quoted above, is sufficiently developed having the much broader 

 leaves. 



