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venulis inconspicuis, utraque pagine minute elevato-punctata, 
glabra, exsiccato pallido-fulvescentia subtus  pallidiora, petiolis 
13 mm. longis, subalatis supra subplanis plus minus © sul- 
catis. Racemi novelli 13 mm. longi, floribus non satis notis. Ex 
descriptione Prof. J. Marsumura: ‘A typo differt foliis subito 
acuminatis. Cortex trunci griseus. Folia petiolata, oblonga, basi 
attenuata apice subito acuminata, integerrima, interdum versus 
apicem obscure paucidentata, glaberrima, costis utrinque 10-13, 
subpatentibus. Racemi novelli 13 mm. longi, ad basin bibracteati, 
villosi, bracteis oppositis, oblongis obtusis, .carinatis, dorso 
subvillosis margine ciliolatis. Calyx 4-lobatus, lobis obtusissimis, 
ciliolatis. Corolla sp. nos. nondum explicata, non satis exami- 
nata, estivatione imbricata. Folia subpatentia maxima 140 mm. 
longa, 35 mm. lata.” 
Has. Linkiho, leg. S. Honpa. 
The present plant comes near Osmanthus marginatus BENTH., 
but differs from it in having much thinner leaves, which are abruptly 
acuminate at the apex. As is pointed out by Prof. J. Matsumura 
in the paper above cited, the plant does not accord with BenTHAM’s 
plant, especially in the shape of leaves. I have compared my 
plant with the type of the latter species at Kew, and found that they 
are quite different even in general appearance, though they come 
very near. 
Apocynaceé. 
Melodinus Forst. 
Melcdinus angustifolius Hayara sp. nov. Scandens, ramis 
gracilibus glabris fiavo-cinerascentibus teretibus, leevibus, ramulis 
gracillissimis divaricatis. Folia opposita petiolata, lineari-lanceolata, 
