Leaves sparse, approximate, patent, often reflexed, linear-spathulate, atten- 

 uated below, acutish or obtuse, entire, minutely auriculate at the base 

 beneath, attaining about 18 mm. long, 4|mrn. broad. Cyme terminal, 

 about 3-5 cm. across, usually divaricately 3-branched, approximately many- 

 flowered ; branches often dichotomously divided ; brauchlets slightly fiexuous, 

 about 3-6-flowered ; bracts similar to leaves but smaller. Flowers sessile, 

 but the inferior ones extremely shortly pedicellate, 8-11 mm. in diameter, 

 yellow. Calyx deeply 5-parted, erect-patent, small, much shorter than the 

 petiils ; lobes oblong-lanceolate, obtuse. Petals 5, patent, linear-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, shortly connate at the base, marcescent, 4i-6mm. in length. 

 Stamens 10, shorter than the petals and inserted at the bases of them, 

 the oi)pDsitisepalous ones slightly longer than the oppositipetalous ones ; 

 lilament filiform ; anther minute, oval. Hypogynous scales minute, short, 

 broad, truncate. Ovaries 5, erect, lanceolate, attenuated to the style 

 above, about 3|mm. long including the style; style erect, shorter than 

 the ovary ; stigma punctiform. Follicles 5, erect-patent, oblong-lanceolate, 

 compressed, with the })ersistent style, very shortly connate at the base, 

 about 4imm. long exclusive of the style, carpel thinly coriaceous, the 

 ventral appendages manifest. 



Hah. Frov. Tsushima : Toishibuchi (A". Uirata ! herb. Y. Suzuki, Aug. 

 15, 1002). 



I have named it in honour of ]Mr. Y. Yabe, liikakushi, who made a 

 botanical tour in the island in 1901. 



Corchoropsis tomentosa (Tlmnb.) Makino, nom. nov. 



Gorchorus tomentosus Thunb. Fl. Jap. (1784) p. 228, excl. nom. 

 Corchorus hirsutus Linn. 



Corchoropsis crenata Sieb. et Zucc. in Abhandl. Akad. Muench. III. 

 p. 738, tab. 4, h 1-14, et IV. 2, p. 164; Walp. Repert. V. p. 118; Miq. 

 Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 206 ; Franch. et Sav. Enura. PI. Jap. I. p. 66 ; Kanits; 

 Anthoph. Jap. p. 23 ; Franch. PI. David. \). 59 ; Forbes et Hemsl. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. XXIII. p. 94 ; Diels in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 

 p. 467 ; Bretschn. Hist. Eur. Bot. Disc, in Chin. I. p. 35. 



Nom. Jap. Karasu-no-goma. 



Hab. Prov. Musashi : Tokyo {J. 3Iatsicmura ! herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. 

 Univ. Tokyo, Sept. 25, 1879, Oct. 10, 1880), Okubo in Tokyo (T. Makino ! 

 Sept. 22, 1896), Arai near Tokyo {T. Makirio ! Sept. 22, 1896), Near 



