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elliptical-ovate, uneven-margined, deciduous, 10-12 mm. long, 7 mm. broad. 

 Petals 5-8, nectariform, much shorter than sepals, 4 mm. long, stipitate, 

 furcate into erect-patent spathulate lobes resembling the form of Y ^'g- 

 nature, white but yellow at the upper end, secreting honey juice from the 

 cavity in the axil, deciduous. Stamens 10-20, erect-patent, shorter than 

 sepals, slightly unequal in length, 6-7mm. long; filaments filiform, gla- 

 brous ; anther oval-ovate, rounded-obtuse at the apex, purpurascent, 2- 

 celled, introrse, with white pollen, the ^hther-wall darkish-cferulescent after 

 bursting. Ovaries 2-5, erect, very shortly stipitate, angustato-oblong, 

 compressed, greenish, nearly glabrous, about 5mm. long including the style, 

 6-8-ovuled ; ovules globoso-obovoid ; style terminal, erect, shorter than the 

 ovary, compressed, broad ; stigma terminal, narrowly lunate along the 

 apical margin of the style. Follicles 2-5, shortly stipitate, patent, oblong, 

 compressed, about 10 mm. long, 5 mm. broad, beaked with a persistent 

 small style ; carpel thinly coriaceous, glabrous, veins obliquely transverse. 

 Seed globose, yellowish-brown, echinulato-scaberulose, about 4 mm. across. 

 Flowers in March- April. 



Hah. Prov. Musashi : Chichibu {R. Yatahe and J. Blatsumura ! herb. 

 Sc, Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, April 24, 1878), Kawachi in Chichibu {T. 

 3Iakino\ April 2, 1895), Yokose in Chichibu {T. Mahinol April 1895), Mt. 

 Tsumasaka-toge {T. 31akino\ April 1895; B. Haycda\ herb. ibid. April 

 1903). 



Clematis (Cheiropsis) tosaensis Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, YI. 

 (1892) p. 50, et XI (1897) p. 332. 



Stem and leaves as in C. japonica Thunb. Pedicel shorter than leaves, 

 1-2 cm. long, hirsute-pubescent, ebracteate. Flower nutant, 2- nearly 3 

 cm. long, ochroleucous. Sepals campanulate, hirsute-pubescent externally 

 and hairs slightly denser towards the margin, spathulato-oblong, rounded- 

 obtuse, thin, crispate and membranaceous on margins, glabrous internally ; 

 main nerves 3, with loosely anastomosing veinlets above. Stamens onehalf 

 as long as the sepal, filament linear, pilosulate ; anther narrower and 

 much shorter than the filament. Pistil shorter than stamens, about 9-20 ; 

 ovule slightly villose dorsally ; style densely villose. Achene narrowly 

 ovate, attenuated above, glabrous, about 6mm. long; tail 2cm. long, villose. 



Hah. Prov. Tosa : Mt. Torigata {T. Maldno ! May 22, 1889), Mt. 

 Kuishi in Tadzikawa-mura {T. Makino \ May 6, 1893); Prov. Yamashiro: 



