448 ITO ET MATSTJMURA I (181) 



pp. 224 et 372 ; Maxim. in Mel. Biol. VIII (1872) p. 377 ; 

 Francli. et Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. I, p. 123 ; Forbes et Hemsl. 

 Ind. Fl. Sin. I, p. 237. 



Insula Amami-Oshima {Oarpenter e Forbes et HemsL, 

 Tashiro ! Aug. 1887, steril.) : acl Naze ( Yamada ! 1882, 

 steril.). " In insulis meridionalibus U-sima [Oshima] et 

 Yakuno-sima, ad collium latera (fl. frf. Wright s. n. K. 

 bracteosi, A. Gray, n. sp.)," sec. 31axim. 



Insula Utchina {Tashirol Majo 1887, fl.) : inter Nafa 

 et Tchatan {T. Ito, n. 956, 21 Aug. 1894, steril.) ; ad Unna 

 {3Iatsumura\ 25 April. 1897, fl.). 



Archipelago Yema {Tashiro ! Aug. 1887, steriL). 

 DiSTRiB. Japan. 



R. reflexus, Ker, '' Bot, Reg. t. 461 "; DC. Prodr. II, p. 

 566; Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 184; Benth. Fl. 

 Hongk. p. 104 ; Seemann, Bot. Voy. ' Herald,' p. 376 ; Maxim. 

 in Mel. Biol. VIII (1872) p. 378 ; " O. Kuntze, Methodik, p. 

 53 "; Forbes et Hemsl. Ind. Fl. Sin. I, p. 236. 

 LuTCHU (ex Bentham, l.c). 

 Insula Utchina : in monte Katuu-daki iu Mutubu- 



madjiri {Tashirol Martio 1887, fl.), in monte Genka in 



Hanidji-madjiri (Tashirol April. 1887, fl.). 

 Distrib. China, Hongkong. 



Tashiro's specimens seem to agree pretty well with Bentham's 

 descriptions (Fl. Hongk. p. 104). Young branches densely 

 clothed with brownish wool, ahnost concealing theminute prickles. 

 Leaves simple, ovate-cordate, 4-7 cm. long., 4-6 cm. wide, 3- or 

 5-lobed, sometimes unlobed, the middle lobe longer than the 

 others, covered on the upper side with brownish wool wheu 



