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about 2i ram. in length. Fruit slightly depressed-globose, red when mature, 

 spotted with silvery scurfs, with a sour-sweet and slightly astringent juice, 

 [)edicel stout, short, densely covered with silvery scurfs and stellate hairs 

 (after Z. Yoshino). Fl. May. 



Nom. indig. Natsu-asa(hrL 



Hah. Pro v. Bitchu : Sayodani in Zyobo-gori {Z. Yoshino ! May, and 

 Aug. 16, 1902). 



The pubescent-tomentose leaves stand alone among those of all other 

 Japanese species of Elceagnus. The fruit matures in June and is edible and 

 the size is as that of Primus tomentosa Thunb. (after Z. Yoshiao). I have 

 named it in compliment to Mr. Zensuke Y'oshino, of Takahashi, pro v. Bitchu, 

 who discovered and collected it and kindly sent me the specimens. 



Viburnum (Lentago, Asiatica) bitchiuense Makino sp. nov. ^ 



Shrub, attaining about 3 ni. in height ; branchlets brownish-grey, 

 slender, glabrate, but those of this year furfuraceo-tomentose with stellate 

 hairs; bud naked, narrowly oblong, furfuraceo-tomentose with stellate hairs, 

 rose-coloured. Leaves opposite, very shortly petioled, elliptical, broadly 

 ovate, or obovato-elliptical, obtuse or acutish at the apex, obtuse or sub- 

 cordate at the base, repand-ctenate with a mueronate tip, subcoriaceo-mem- 

 branaceos, deep green and thinly pubescent with simple and stellate hairs 

 above, paler and furfuraceous with dispersed stellate hair beneath, 4-9^ cm. 

 long, 2-^-7 cm. wide, the young leaves furfuraceo-tomentose ; midrib promi- 

 nent beneath ; veins 5-7 on each side, loose, erect-patent, branched and 

 anastomosing towards the margin, prominent beneath ; veinlets inconspicu- 

 ous; petiole covered with stellate hairs, about 3-7 mm. long. Inflores- 

 cence peduncled, about 4-5 cm. across in fruit; bracts and bracteoles 

 caducous ; peduncle straight, dispersedly furfuraceous with stellate hairs as 

 are 1st pedicels, 3-5 cm. long in fruit; 1st pedicels umbellate, erect-patent, 

 strict, about 5 in number, about li-l^cm. long in fruit, capitately 4—5- 



flowered towards the top. Flower.. Fruit about 1-3 to a 1st 



pedicel, very shortly pedicellate, api)roximate, oblong, about 10 mm. long, 

 5-6 mm. wide, very compressed, black when dried, crowned with a short 

 persistent style and 5- parted ovate-lobed persistent calyx. Putaraen 

 oblong, piano-compressed, longitudinally 2-sulcate on one surface, but the 

 other surface longitudinally 2-ridged and the central groove deeper. Seed 

 piano-compressed, about 9 mm. long, 4^ mm. broad. 



