160 2'H£; BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. [Voi. xxii. No. 263. 



Flower (female) solitary, axillary, with an extremely short and 

 tomentoso-pubescent pedicel ; bracts minute, deltoid, densely pubes- 

 cent. Fruit about 2 cm, across, depressed-globose, adpressed- 

 pubescent, beaked with the denselj^ pubescent base of the style, 

 8-celled ; persistent calyx depressed, thick, 4-lobed, adpressed- 

 tomentose on both sides ; lobes reflexed, depressed-deltoid. 

 Hah. LiUKiu. 



Theajaponica (Linn.) Pierre in Fl. Forest. Cochinch. 

 II. (1887) tab. 119 nota, uon Baill. 



Camellia japonica Linn. Sp. PI. p. G98. 



Thea Camellia Hoffmgg. Verz. Pfl. p. 117. 



«• spontanea Makino. 



Flowers simple, constantly deep-red, campanulato-infiin- 

 dibuliform. 



Nom. Jap. Yabu-tsubaki. 



Hab. Japan {T. Makino I) 



A wild form. 



/?. hortensis Makino. 



Flowers double or simple, various in colour; corolla usually 

 patulous. 



Nom. Jap. Tsubaki. 



Hab. Jaipan [T. Makino I). 



Triosteum sinuatum Maxim, in Mel. Biol. VII. p. 553 

 (1870), et XL p. 229 (1881) ; Franch. et vSav. Enum. PI. Jap. 

 L (1875) p. 202; D. Oliver in Hooker's Ic. PI. tab. 1586 



(1887) ; Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXIII. p. 357 



(1888) ; linuma, Somoku-Dzusetsu, ed. 3, I. 3, p. 25, tab. 16. 

 Rhizome ligneous, rooting; roots many-branched. 



Nom. Jap. Tsukinuki-so. 



Hab. Prov. Shinano : Mt. Oya in Kamitakai-gori (T. Kura- 

 shimal Aug. 12, 1904, Sept. 1908), Mt. Moriya-san (M. Chinol 

 July 15, 1908.) 



Rare. I am greatly indebted to Messrs. T. Kurashima and 

 M. Chino for the specimens sent to me by them. 



