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throat and 5 2-virid-maculate tinder the middle opposite with 

 the lobes internally; lobes valvate in bud. Stamens 5, in- 

 cluded, inserted to the throat, erect, equal in length; filament 

 filiform, pubescent with spreading ramose hairs ; anther dorsi- 

 fixed, narrowly ovate, introrse. Disk none. Ovary ovoid, 

 glabrous, about equalling the corolla-tube in height, bilocular; 

 ovules numerous, oval or elliptical, on thick placentas; style 

 filifiDrm, erect, equalling the stamens in height, glabrous ; 

 stigma bifid. Berry pendulous, oval or ellipsoid, entirely in- 

 cluded within the persistent tubuloso-oblong green calyx, which 

 has an open mouth, and close-fitting to the berry, greenish, 

 smooth, about 5— 7mm. across, with thick placentas and 

 numerous seeds. Seeds oval-subreniform, compressed, alveolato- 

 reticulated, brown. 



Nom. Jap. Ao-hodzuki. 



Hab. Prov. Shimotsuke : Kegon in Nikko (Herb.! Sc. 

 Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Oct. 5, 1879) ; Prov. Suruga : Mt. 

 Fuji (S. Matsuda ! July 30, 1891) ; Prov. Tosa : Nonokawa 

 (T. Makinol 1885). 



This species is found in shady places on mountains. R. 

 Yatabe figured and described it erroneoush", as having the 

 2-3-fasciculated cernuous flow^ers and capitate stigma. 



Chamaesaracha japonica Makino, 111. Fl. Jap. I. n. 11 

 (Oct. 9, 1891) p. 1, non Franch. et Sav. 



Chamsesaracha japonica Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. 

 II. (1879) p. 454, pro parte. 



Chamassaracha ecbinata Yatabe in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, V. n. 

 56 ( Oct. 10, 1891) p. 317, V. n. 57 (Nov. 10, 1891) p. 355, 

 tab. 30, et Iconogr. Fl. Jap. I. 2 (1892) p. 121, tab. 33. 



Allied to Chamassaracha Savatkri Makino, but the stems 

 often diffuse ; leaves shorter and rotund-ovate ; flowers 2-3- 

 or more-fasciculate, smaller, cernuous ; berrj" globose, nearly in- 

 vested w4th the accrescent globose thicker and denser-muricated 

 calyx except in the top. 



Nom. Jap. Iga-hodzuki. 



