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April 6, 1878) ; Prov. Awa in Isl. Shikoku : Kainimyo-mura {B. Yatahe !. 

 herb. 1. c. July 24, 1888) ; Prov. Tosa : Sakawa {T. Blakino ! April 1892) 



var. liukiuensis Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, IX. 1895, p. 279. 



A shrub ; branches yellowish ; branchlet puberulent. Leaves opposite, 

 oblong-ovate, obovato-oblong, obovate, ovate, or oblanceolate, attenuated at 

 base, emarginate, entire, thinly coriaceous, green and shining above, paler 

 beneath, 1^-3 cm. broad, 3-6 cm. long including the slightly puberulent 

 short petiole ; veins many, erect-patent, branching, delicately prominent 

 above when dried. Inflorescence axillary, cluster-flowered, furnished with 

 a Arm rounded ciliated and small bract under each flower, the female flower 

 superior, imbricately scaly at the base of the common rachis. Male flowers 

 very shortly pedicellate. Sepals 4, membranaceous, concave, ciliated on 

 margin ; 2 outer ones broadly ovate ; 2 inner ones larger tlian the outer 

 ones, orbicular, concave, 2i mm. in each way. Rudimentary ovary included, 

 short, one-third as long as the inner sepals, capitately enlarged and 4-lobed 

 at the top. Stamens 4, much exserted; filament stout; anther narrowly 

 ovate, one-fourth as long as the filament. Capsule ovoid, smooth, hard, 

 about 1 cm. long, with persistent styles which are suberect and a little in- 

 clined outwards, loculicidally dehiscing into 3 carpels each bearing 2 of the 

 half style and then the endocarp separating from the e[)icarp. Seed 

 oblong, black, shining. 



Hah. LoocHOO : Mountain of Kuzi-magiri in Isl. Okinawa (Z. Tashiro\ 

 herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, March 1887), Shuri in Ibid. {H. Kuro- 

 iiva ! Nov. 1894), Shika-mura in Isl. Ishigaki {H. Kurohva ! Aug. 9, 1892, 

 ijo. 25). 



This is distinguished principally by the size of leaves and flowers. 

 The rudimentary ovar}' well accords with the typical one of Buxus semper- 

 vircns Linn. ; but it differs from that of Z?. sempervirens var. japonica 

 (Muell. Arg.) ]\Iakino. 



Aster trinervius Roxb. var. congestus Franch et Sav. forma 



tubulosus Makino. 



Corolla of the ray-flowers augustate- tubular, often bilabiato-lobed at 

 the mouth, the lower lobes ovate to ovato-lanceolate, the upper lobe linear 

 and, shorter than the lower one, lilac-coloured. Involucral bracts tinged 

 with purple colour. 



