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Urado {T. MaMno\ Nov. 189.5); Prov. Ise : Mt. Onigazyo in Wataraye- 

 gori {Z. Umemura ! March 31, 1894) ; Prov. Awa [Boshu] (Herb. ! Sc. 

 Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo), Mt. Kiyosnmi (T. MaMno\). 



Distrih. Hongkong, Kwantung. 



I could not obtain the typical specimen itself from Chine, so the 

 Japanese plant was identified according to its description. In Japan, this 

 species is found in tiie southern part and warmer districts of the middle 

 part. My thanks are due t> Mr. Torama Yoshinaga, who kindly sent 

 me the fruit and its figure. 



Styrax Shiraiana Makino in Bdt. Mag., Tokyo, XII. (1898) p. 50. 



A deciduous small tree; V)ranches terete, flexnous, glabrous, but tonien- 

 tose with fasciculated hairs (which are often caducous) in the shoot of this 

 year, provided with erect-patent branchlets, drab-castaneous, fulvo-castaneous, 

 or castaneous, the outer bark thin and often peeling off. Leaves alter- 

 nate, petiolate, mostly 3 or 4 on branchlets (often more on the terminal 

 branchlets), the terminal one largest, rhombeo-orbicular, but elliptical or 

 oval-elliptical and approximately placed in the inferior ones, on the front 

 margin unequally and coarsely sinuato-dentate with mucronate deltoid sharp 

 teeth and open deltoid sinuses, but entire on the lower margin, shortly 

 projected into a narrowly deltoid mucronate acute or obtuse t(H)th at the 

 apex, cuneate or cuneato-obtuse or sometimes roimded at the base, 3-12 cm. 

 long, 2-llicm. broad, s[)aringly disparsed with stellate hairs on both sur- 

 face«, densely pilose with whitish fasciculate hairs at the axil of the midrib 

 and veins beneath, green and concolorous, chartaceous, penninerved, the 

 midrib and veins elevated and often covered with fulvous fasciculate hairs 

 beneath ; veins 4-7 on each side, erect-patent : main veinlets transverse 

 between veins ; petiole tomentose with fasciculate hairs (which are often 

 caducous), etdarged and entirely inclosed the bud at the base, 3-18 mm. 

 long. Kaceme cernuous, simple, terminating the lateral short branchlets, 

 cr rarely axillary in the upper portion of branches, secundly 3-13-flowered, 

 about 4-6 cm. long, foliiferous below (the uppermost leaf often reduced 

 i-n size, acuminate, cuneato-obovate) ; rachis hirsute-tomentose with stellato- 

 fasciculate drab-fulvous hairs as is the pedicel ; bracts filiform-linear, 

 tomentoso-pubescent with stellato-fasciculate hairs, 1-3 to each fiower, 

 about equal to or slightly shorter than the calyx, attached to the 

 apical portion of the pedicel or sometimes to the lower portion of the 

 calyx, persistent. Flowers nutant, very shortly pedicellate, about 2^— 



