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Vaccinium longeracemosum Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. II. 

 (1879) p. 425. 



Vaccinium Nagurai Makino, ined. 



Shrub ; branches terete, glabrous, castaneous, innovations pilosulate. 

 Leaves deciduous, objvato-elliptical or elliptical, acute or shortly acuminate 

 with a mucronate tip, acute at base, very shortly petiolate, entire and 

 glabrous or subciliated margined, chartaceous, thinly pilose above, nervate 

 and often thinly muricato-pilose beneath, attaining 4| cm. long, 2| cm. 

 broad. Raceme terminal on the short lateral foliate innovations, spread- 

 ing, subsecundly many-flowered, 3-5 cm. long ; rachis slender, thinly 

 pubescent ; bracts deciduous, oblong-lanceolate, mucronato-acute, sessile, 

 membranaceous, reticulately nervate. Flowers 4-4| mm : across ; pedicel 

 erect-patent or patulous, glabrous, twice as long as the calyx, 2J mm. long. 

 Calyx campanulate, glabrous ; lobes semiorbiculato-deltoid, subdenticulate or 

 moreover ciliated at the obtuse apex. Corolla lato-campanulate, twice as 

 long as the calyx, 5-fid and cut down one-third ; lobes deltoid obtuse, 

 revolute. Stamens 10, included, slightly shorter than the corolla > 

 filament subulato-linear, pilose ; anther erect, narrow, straight, dorsifixed, 

 exaristate, slightly shorter than the filament, cells produced above into 

 closely [)laced erect beaks, each with a pore at the top. Style erect, 

 glabrous, a little exserted ; stigma depressed-capitate. Bacca globose, about 

 1cm. each way, with the persistent calyx, purple-black. Seeds obliquely 

 elliptical, compressed, fulvous, 2mm. long. 



Hah. Prov. Mikawa : Okubo in Atsumi-gori ( G. Nagtira ! June 1, 



1898, flowers) ; Prov, Totomi : Mikata-ga-hara ( Z. Umemura ! Oct. 28, 



1899, fruits). 



This species is allied to Vaccinium ciliatum Thunb. 



Lychnis (Eulychnis) kiusiana Makino, sp. nov. 



Perennial, attaining 6i decim. in height. Stem very slender, rigidly 

 pubescent with retrorse hairs above, nodes slightly turged, the internodes 

 2-6 cm. long. Leaves spreading, lanceolate, or narrowly lanceolate, 

 acuminate, narrowed below, sessile, longer or shorter than the internode, 

 glabrous, entire and scabrous margined, thin, 2-5 cm. long, 3-10 mm. wide. 

 Cyme loosely l-.5-flovvered ; peduncles erect-patent ; bracts linear. Flower 

 shortly pedicellate, about 2 cm. across, scarlet. Calyx clavato-cylindrical, 

 glabrous, about 2 cm. long, about 4 mm. in diameter, 10-nerved, veinlets 



