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entire or paiici-serrate, glaln-oiis on Loth surfaces, bat ciliated on margin 

 with spreading or erect-patent pilose hairs, thickish, green, concolorous, 

 6-13 ram. long, 1^-2 mm. broad (longer and broader under cultivation), 

 nerves inconspicuous ; cauline leaves usually 1-3 or sometimes 4, remotely 

 alternate, erect-patent, sessile, semiaraplexicaul, oblong-linear or subulato- 

 linear, acute or subobtuse, entire or pauci-serrate, laxly ciliated on margin, 

 5-12 mm. long, 1^-2 mm. broad (often longer and broader under cultiva- 

 tion). Stems subnumerous, erect, gracile, glabrous, usually simple, rarely 

 pauci-ramose. Raceme erect, 2 to several- (often numerous under cultiva- 

 tion) flowered ; rachis gracile, glabrous ; pedicels erect-patent, glabrous, 

 gracile, shorter than the flower. Flower small, 3-3i mm. in diameter, 

 white. Sejjals erect-patent, elliptical, obtuse, concave, glabrous, delicately 

 sub-trinerved, light green, 2-2^ mm. long. Petals half-patent, longer than 

 sepals, cuneato-obovate, emarginate, shortly unguiculate, 3^ mm. long. 

 Stemens as long as sepals; filament filiform, glabrous; anther minute, 

 ovato-elliptical. Ovary ol)long, viridescent, glabrous ; style very short, with 

 a truncato-subcapitate stigma. Silicle erect-patent, lato-linear to oblong- 

 linear, attenuated towards both ends, straight or subfalcate, oi'ten slightly 

 twisted, with a very short and minute style which not bifid at the stigma, 

 uneven on surface, 4-10 mm. long, l|-2^ mm. broad ; carpel membranaceous, 

 loosely and delicately reticulato-veined on each side of the delicate midrib ; 

 pedicel shorter than the silicle, erect-patent, l|-4i mm. long. Seeds 

 several to many, oblong-ellipsoid, compressed, rounded-obtuse at tiie apical 

 end, acutish or obtuse at base, with a minute and short funicle, 1-1^ mm. 

 long. 



Hah. Prov. Shinano : Mt. Shirouma {B. Iold\ August ]903), Mt. 

 Yarigadake near Mt. Shirouma {E. Tnnahd ! Aug. 1903) ; Prov. IMusasiii : 

 Tokyo, cultivated from ]\It. Shirouma {X. Jol-i \ May 1904). 



Rhamnus (Eurhamnus) Yoshinoi Makino sp. nov. 



A shrub, divaricately or patently suliopposite-ramose, loosely spinose, spines 

 terminating branchlets ; branches and branchlets terete, glabrous, purpulish- 

 browa and often with grey colour. Leaves deciduous, alternate on the 

 Mangtrieb' but few-several -fasciculate on the ' kurztrieb/ chartaceo-mem- 

 branceous, obovate, cuneate towards the base, abruptly acuminate at 

 a[)ex, mucronato-serrulate, green and glabrate (thinly puberulent when 

 young) above, very slightly paler and thinly pubescent (punctato-purplish 



