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which in the former plant is ovoid-globose, while in the latter it is 
globose. This character, however, depends upon the time of 
species. Such a slight variation is quite insufficient ground for 
distinguishing species. The last, characteristic of L. Tschonoshii 
given by Maximowicz is the pubescence of the ovary, Still as 
Boissieu* points out, the hairy ovary occurs also in certain forms of 
LI. Grayana. 
In reality the hairiness of the ovary is the important character of 
u Monsen of L. Grayana, and the leaf has here no significance 
whateve 
The aplies diould: therefore, be arranged as follows :— 
ee feat Maxim., emend. a Maximowicziana, Takeda., 
1. Gray Maxim. in Mél. Biol., viii, p. 613. Z. Grayana, a 
typica, Boas in Bull. Herb, Boiss., v, p. 911, 
vario glabro. 
2. Tschonoskii, Takeda., L. Tschonoshii, Maxim., |.c., L. Grayana 
[3 tntermedia et Wrightiana, Boiss., lc. 
Ovario sivloate pubescente. 
It seems to me probable that C. Wright tec several speci- 
mens of this plant in the neighbourhood of Hakodate, most of which 
= probably — variety a, from which this nies was described 
by A. Gray a d Maximowicz. A few must be the variety (3, on 
which Sccer established his var. Wrightiana. 
TRIPTERYGIUM. 
This very interesting genus of Celastraceae was discovered b 
Wilford in Formosa in the year 1858. Sir J. D. Hooker described 
the plant under the name of 7. Wilfordi.t or genl yon? later a 
second species, 7’. Bullochii, was published by H. 
is said to differ from 7. Wilfordi in having a 6-lobed stigma and 
branchlets covered with ferruginous hairs. aximowicz, in his 
paper on the lastece 2 Asiatic Celastraceae,§ regards these plants as 
distinct species, and distinguishes them by the number 
stigmatic lobes, and by the shape of the fruit. This classification 
was adopted by Lésener,]|| although Hemsley{ states 7. Bullockii, 
Hance, is the same as Hooker’s plant. 
few years after the _pubiee use of JT. Wilfordi and before 
T. Bullockii became known, Regel** gave a figure and a 
epenution of 7. Wilfordi, which was drawn from the specimen 
sent to Hooker and determined by him. 
According to this decongtion; the plant has a 6-lobed stigma 
and glabrous branchlets. ‘Thus, the number of the stigmatic lobes 
* Boiss., le 
t Hooker,3 in Benth. et Hook. page PL, i, p. 368. 
+ Hance, in Journ. Bot., 1880, 
§ Maxim., in Mél. Biol ‘ "xi, p- 206 (1881), 
| Lésener, in Engl. u. Pr. Pflanzenfam., iii, 5, p. 213 (1892). 
ey, in In is, i, p. 125 (1886). 
#* Rogel, Gartenfl , 1869, p. 105 t. 612. 
++ Maisuda, in Tokyo Bot. Mag., xxiv, p, 286 (1910), 
