120 MATsrMlIlA AM) IIAVATA. 



pedicellis 1 0-1 5 mm . loiigis, calycibusque piibesceritibus. Fl. patentes 

 8 mm. in cliametro îvqiiantes. Calyces persistentes ; tubi urceolato- 

 campannlati ad medinm '3-lobati, lobis ovatis acutis. Petala 5, 

 ori calycis inscrta, orbiculata, breviter nngniculata apice leviter 

 emarginata. Stamina oc circ. 20, calycis fauce 2-seriatim inserta, 

 filamentis glabris basi 2-glanduliferis, antheris bilocularibus in- 

 trorsum dehiscentibus. Discus carnosus tomentosus calycis tubo 

 adnatus. Carpella ~), fundo calycis inserta, brevissime stipitata, 

 libera, stylis subterminalibus subgeniculatis stigmatibus capitatis. 

 Ovarium 1-loculare; ovula in loculis oo. Carpella matura coriacea 

 sutura ventral! deliiscentia ; semina pendula, linearia. 



The original description in "Sieb, et Zrcc. Fl. Jap. p. 1'>1" is 

 written from the plant with double flowers which is very common 

 in Japan proper. No specimen with simple flowers was known to 

 us until jNfr. Y. Tashieo sent the above described specimen from 

 Formosa. I thought this simple-flowered plant to be a new 

 species which has a close affnity to S. prunifolia of Sieb, and 

 ZiTC. But I am quite convinced l)y Mr. T. Making that the 

 specimen is nothing but a simple-flowered form of the common 

 Japanese species. This form is quite new to the Formosan flora 

 as well as Japanese. Mr. Palibin has also written in his "Con- 

 spectus Fl. Korete, I. p. 73 " that the Corean species have all 

 simple flowers, while those of Japan and China are all double 

 flowered form. (B. Hayata). 



Hab. prope llinkilio, in jurisdictione Unrin, lep". Y. Tashtro, anno 



1890, (No. 17, A). 

 DrsTRiB. China et Japonia. 



linhus LiNx. 

 Rubus corchorifolius T.ixx. f.; DC. Prodr. IT. p. r)(;7 ; 



