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nearly 2mm. long but in fruit slightly enlarged ; main nerves 5, 

 erect ; veinlelets imbedded and anastomosing ; receptacle widely 

 enlarged than it under the persistent calyx in fruit. Corolla 

 yellow !, lato-campanulate, about 7mm. across, abruptedly 

 constricted above the base of the tube, 5-fid to the middle ; 

 lobes reflexed, ovato-deltoid, acutish, entire, ciliolate, sinuses 

 acute. Stamens 5, somewhat exserted, erect, glabrous, adnate 

 to the upper portion of corolla-tube ; filaments apart each other, 

 deltoid-subulate, attenuated above ; anther erect, ovate, bifid 

 at the base, obtuse at the apex, basifixed, introrse, longitudi- 

 nally dehiscing, with linear-oblong cells, shorter than the fila- 

 ment, l|mm. long. Ovary depressed-globose, glabrous, 2— 

 celled, many-ovuled, 2mm. long ; style erect, terete-filiform, 

 nearly equalling the stamens in height, nearly 4mm. long, with 

 a thickish stigma ; ovules ellipsoid. Berry nutant, globose, 

 smooth, 8-1 2mm. across, green at first but then cinnabarine, 

 succulent ! in recent, indehiscent, pericarp thin ; seeds numerous, 

 compressed, suborbiculate or oval, elegantly reticulato-engraved, 

 pale-flavescent. 



Nom. Jap. Hadaka-hodzuki. 



Icon. linuma's Somoku-Dzusetsu, ed. 2, III. n. 47. 



Hab. Japan, central and southern. 



This species grows on hills and mountains. It is not an- 

 nual and the flower not white, though Franchet so described. 



{To he continued.) 



