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Dwarf, c;"e?pitosp, iiiany-steiiimy, thinly pubescent to touieutose-pubes- 

 cent. Leaves small, 5-15 ram. long, 4-14 mm. broad, petiolate, oval- 

 ovate, obtuse, truncate or truncato-subcordate at the base, crenate ; petiole 

 shorter than the blade, '2-9 mm. long. Flower as in those of var. 

 japonica Morr. et Uecne. (s]\), but sometimes smaller. Nutlet minute, 

 muricate all over, black. Flowers in May. 



Hah. Prov. Tosa : Sakawa ( T. MilHno ! 1885), Tanokuchi in Hata- 

 gori {K. Waianahe\ herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Oct. 26, 1891); 

 Prov. Settsu: Ikuta (Herb,! ibid. May 10, 1879); Prov. Musashi : Mt. 

 Takao {T. MaJdnol May 18, 1902). 



Stephanotis (Jasminanthes) chinensis Champ, in ' Hook. Kew 

 Journ. Bot. V. p. 53'; Walp. Ann. V. p. .503; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 

 227; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX, p, 818; Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. XXVI. p. 114; Bretschn. Hist. Eur. Bot. Disc. Chin, p, 377. 



Stephanotis japonica Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, VI. ( 1892) p. 53. 



A tall vigorous voluble shrub ; stem and main branches glabrate, 

 browish-grey ; branches and branchlets slender, terete, paten t-retrorsely 

 pubescent Ijut tomentose in youngest ones, nodes mostly remote ; lenticels 

 disparsed, small, nmnded to elliptical, . Leaves opposite, petiolate, elliptico- 

 -oblong, ovato-elliptical, oblong-ovate, or ovate, abruptly and shortly acuminate 

 with an obtuse or acutish tip, rounded to cordate at the base, entire and 

 minutely ciliated, membranaceous or charticeo-membranaceous, deep-green 

 above, slightly paler beneath, 4^-17 cm. long, 3-11 cm. wide, midrib and 

 veins pubescent and the hairs denser beneath, young leaves disparsed with 

 minute pubescent hairs ; veins erect-patent, connected before reaching the 

 margin ; about 6-8 on each side ; petiole much shorter than the blade, 

 9-22 mm. long, erect-patent or spreading or reflexed, pubescent. Cyme 

 •on branchlets of this year, axillary, umbellate, shorter than leaves, i)eduncled, 

 2-,5-flowered ; peduncle straight, short, solitary, erect-patent, or patent, 

 rarely one-branched, thinly pubescent as is the pedicel, 3-14 mm. long, 

 pedicels straight, narrowly terete, thicker under the flower, viridescent, erect or 

 •erect-patent, much longer than the peduncle, 1.5-28 mm. long ; bracts small, 

 scaly, ab3ut 3-5, placed at the bise of pedicels, unequal in size, lato- 

 subulate, lato-ovate, ovato-oblong, oblong, lato-linear, linear, or sometimes 

 spathulato-linear, usually obtuse, about 1-4 mm. long, pubescent towards the 

 margin and ciliated. Flower large, white, fragrant, 3i-6 cm. across, often 



