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Stephania rotunda Miq. Catal. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bot., Fl. Jap. (1870) 

 p. 4; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. (1875) p. 20, non Loureiro. 



Clypea longa G. Don ' Gen. Syst. I. p. 113.' 



Cissampelos hexandra Eoxb. ' Hort. Beng. (1814) p. 74/ et F]. Ind. 

 III. (1832) p. 841. 



Stephania liypoglauca Miers ' Contrib. Bot. III. p. 227.' 



Stephania intertexta Miers 1. c. p. 224. 



Stephania latifolia Miers 1. c. p. 224. 



Clypea consummata Miers 1, c. p. 209. 



Clypea suhovata Miers 1. c. p. 209. 



Nom. Jap. Hasunoha-hadzura. 



Hab. Southern Japan. 



Mussaenda shikokiana Makino sp. nov. 



Blusscenda parvifiora ]\Iiq. var. sMhohiana in sclied. herb. 



Branchlet subquadrangular-terete, brownish-fulvous, disparsed with ad- 

 pressed pilose hairs above. Leaves petiolate, oval-elliptical, suddenly short- 

 acuminate, rounded and decurrent to the upper portion of the petiole at the 

 base, entire, membranaceous, very thinly disparsed with pilose hairs and 

 hairs denser on the nerves above, piloso-pubescent on nerves beneath, 

 green above, paler beneath, 10-11 cm. long, 6-7 cm. wide ; midrib promi- 

 nent beneath ; veins 7-10 on each side, erect-patent, arcuate upwards, 

 reaching the margin, regularly arranged ; petiole 1-2 cm. long, thinly ad- 

 pressed-pilose. Fruiting cyme about 10 cm. across, divaricately branched, 

 pubescent. Fruits many, globoso-obovoid, 10-llmm. long, 9-lOmm. across, 

 thinly adpressed-pilose, with a ring remained by the fallen calyx and corolla, 

 nigrescent when dry, pedioellat; pedicel shorter than the fruit. Seeds 

 numerous, minute, oval-elliptical, compressed, yellowish-brown, scrobiculate. 



Hah. Prov. Tosa : Shimonokaye in Hata-gori {K. Watanabe ! Aug. 

 24, 1892). 



Though I do not yet seen flowers, leaves and seeds difier from those 

 of Musscenda parvifiora Miquel. 



Plectranthus inflexus Vahl var. verticillatus Makino in Bot. Mag., 

 Tokyo, VL (1892) p. 54. 



