DAG ART. I.—B. HAYATA: 
acutis. Staminodia 9-12, linearia vel subulata, 145 mm. longa, 
barbata, intimis 2-glandulosis. Ovarium obovatum 14 mm. longum, 
apice in stylum 25 mm. longum attenuatum, stigmate discoideo, 
2-3-lobato. Bacca oblonga 1 cm. longa, 6 mm. lata, calycis tubo 
accrescente cupuliformi insidens, segmentis calycis deciduis. 
Has. Ako: Tanashi, leg. G. Nakanara, Jan. 1906; Botansha, 
leg. S. Kusano, Jan. 1909, (sp. 2.) 
Here is another specimen bearing male flowers which resembles 
very much the species just described, and may be the 
partner of it. The following description is drawn from the male 
Specimen. 
Folia obovata vel obovato-oblonga, 15 em. longa, 6 ¢m. lata 
apice breve acuta, basi cuneata. Fl. §: umbellee 3-4-floratae, breve 
pedicellate, pedicellis 1 mm. longis, pubescentibus. Perianthium 
extus pubescens, 6-7-8 partitum, segmentis obovatis 44 mm. longis, 
2$ mm. latis. Stamina cire. 16, subeequalia, 5 mm. longa, exserta, 
filamentis barbatis exterioribus irregulariter glandulosis. Rudi- 
mentum oOvarii minutum. 
Has. in monte Morrison, ad 7500 ped. alt., leg. T. KawaKkamr 
et U. Mori, 1906, Oct. (No. 1706, sp. %.) 
Litsea (7etradenia) aurata Hayata sp. nov. Rami cinerascentes, 
rugosi, lenticellati, cicatricibus foliorum notati, ramulis fuscentibus 
glabris. Folia persistentia coriacea alterna ad apicem ramorum 
verticillatim approximatim superposita, petiolata oblonga, 8 cm. 
longa, 32 mm. lata, apice acute obtusa basi obtusa, utrinque 
venis elevatis, supra glabra, subtus pilis adpressis sericeo-aurata, 
5-nervia, venis primaris utrinque 2-3, venis secundarius transverse 
reticulatis. Umbelle florum secus apicem ramulorum approximate 
disposite, sessiles, (bracteis involucri 4, globosis deciduis 5 mm. 
