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attaining about Im. or more in length. Leaves petiolate, 

 alternate, often binate, remote; petiole often long, attaining 

 about 9cm. in length, glabrous ; blade ovate or elliptical- 

 ovate, attenuatedly acuminate, more or less unequally acute or 

 obtuse and decurrent to the petiole at the base, coarsely 

 sinuato-dentate with a few deltoid, depressed -deltoid, or subu- 

 lato-deltoid, often acute or acuminate teeth on both margins, 

 flaccidly herbaceous, thin, glabrous, but very thinly pubescent 

 on the midrib and veins on both surfaces, very thinly ciliated 

 on margin, about 4-18cm. long, 2-12cm. broad. Flowers 

 nutant, 2-3— fasciculate, rarely solitary in the apical portion, 

 axillary, pedicellate, about l^cm. in diameter ; pedicels arc- 

 uato-cernuous, gracile, glabrous, about 1cm. long in flower 

 but in fruit about l^cm. long, arcuato-deflexed, somewhat en- 

 larged above. Calyx lato-campanulate, rounded at the base, 

 short, 3mm. in length, shallowly 5— fid with depressed-deltoid 

 obtuse ciliated teeth, echinato-barbate, viridescent, densely 

 ciliated on margin ; in fruit inflated, lato-ovoid, truncato-rounded 

 at the base, shortly 5-fid with connivent small teeth at the 

 apex, about 18— 23mm. long, 17-22mm. across, not thick, 

 greenish below and pale above, longitudinally and acute- 

 angulately 10— ridged, 10— costate ; veinlets anastomosing be- 

 tween the costas ; ridges coarsely muricate. Corolla white, 

 campanulato-rotate, 5-fid ; tube short, campanulate, pubescent 

 and 5 2-viridescent-maculate internally; lobes patent, ovate, 

 acute, minutely pubescent above externally, densely ciliolated on 

 margins, very slightly longer than the tube. Stamens 5, ex- 

 serted, erect, inserted on the lower portion of corolla- tube, about 

 7mm. long ; filament filiform ; anther oval, with oblong locula- 

 ments, basifixed, bifid at the base, emarginate at the apex, 

 nearly 2mm. in length. Ovary ovoid, glabrous ; style erect, 

 stout-filiform, terete, equalling the stamens in height ; stigma 

 depressed-capitate. Berry globose, entirely enclosed within 

 the enlarged inflated persistent calyx, viridescent (but at length 

 reddish ?), about 1cm. across, smooth, succulent, many-seeded. 

 Seeds small, much compressed, obovato-oval, about Ifmm.. long. 

 Nom. Jap. Yama-hodzuki (nov.). 



