(ßß) TENTAMEM FLORyE LUTCHTIENSLS. 333 



C. sp. (an C. drupifera, Lour?). 



Insiil.v Utchinâ (Malsumura ! 1897, fiuct. immat.) : 

 in Hanidji-madjiri montö Djiiika [Ta^^hii'o] Martio [April.] 

 1887, steril.) ; in tracta Kundjan in montibus Unna-daki 

 {T. m,n. 1054, 23 Aug. 1894, frf.) et Nagu-daki {T. M n. 

 1109 B, 24 Aug. 1894, frf.). 



The branches of this plant are slender and cylindrical, and 

 the leaves elliptical, coriaceous, glabrous, minutely punctate on 

 both surfaces, shining above, 3-9 cm. long, l2-3 cm. wide, acute 

 or subacuminate, attenuate at the base, minutely crenate-serrate, 

 entire toward the base, veins often obscure, except the midrib ; 

 at the base of young branches, there is usually a pair of spa- 

 thulate or oblanceolate scales, which are sericeous outside. 



C. sp. ? 



LuTCHÛ (Tashiro ! steril.) 

 Leaves very small, le or 2 cm. long, î-l cm. wide, smooth, 

 shining, elliptical-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, crenate-serrulate. 

 Tashiro's specimen is too imperfect for further determination. 



MALVACE^. 



Althsea, L. 



=•= A. rosea, Cav. '' Diss. II, p. 92, t. 29, f. 3 "; DC. Prodr. 

 I, p. 437; ^'Eeichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. V, t. 17Ö "; Bot. Mag. t. 

 3198; Baker f. in Journ. Bot. XXVIII (1890) p. 207; Forbes 

 et Hemsl. Ind. Fl. Sin. I, p. 83 ; Maxim. Enum. PI. Mon- 



