252 ART. I.—B. HAYATA: 
plant differs in having leaves which have primary veins diverging 
from the midrib in a more obtuse angle, and in the male inflorescence 
which is much looser and smaller. Also near Litsea hupehana 
Hemstu. but differs by the venation of the leaves. 
Litsea obovata Hayara sp. nov. Ramuli dense breveque to- 
mentosi fusco-rubescentes. Folia alterna, petiolata, obovata, vel 
late oblonga, 13cm. longa, 8 em. lata, apice rotundato-acuta, basi 
acuta supra glabrata, ad costas pubescentia, subtus ad costas 
venas venulasque hirtellata, ad paginam minute lepidota, palli- 
dissima, costis et venis supra impressis subtus prominente elevatis 
venis primariis utrinque latere 6-7,a costa angulo 60° egressis arcuatis 
apice 2-furcatis prope marginem anastomosantibus, venis secunda- 
riis oblique transversis, venulis reticulatis, petiolis 14 em. longis. 
Umbelle florum cymosx, cymis axillaribus. Involucrum alabastri 
globosum. Fl. perfecti non visi. 
Has. Banchoryo, leg. T. Kawaxami et U. Mort, Nov. 1907, (No. 
4143). 
Near L. tomentosa, but differs from it by the much less hairly 
and obovate leaves. 
Lindera THUNB. 
Lindera akensis Hayara sp. nov. Rami _ fusco-cinerascentes, 
longitudinaliter rugosi, cicatricibus foliorum elevatis notati, ramulis 
gracilibus fusco-pubescentibus. Dicca. Pl. 2: Folia alterna petio- 
lata, ovata, vel oblonga, 4 cm. longa, 23 mm. lata apice abrupte 
acuta, basi acuta, supra nitida, subtus glauca, ad costas venas 
venulasque hirtellata, venulis reticulatis utrinque pagine elevatis, 
petiolis 5 mm. longis, supra suleatis. Flores 5-6 ad axillas folioram 
congesti, pedicellis brevibus 2 mm. longis pubescentibus, perulis 
