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in old ones) lieiieatli, 2-8 cm. lung, 1-4 cm. Lroad ; midrib prominent 

 beneath ; lat<ral \ciiis 3-G on each side, ascending and arcuate ; veiidets 

 not conspicuous. Flower dia>cious, pedicellate, one to a leaf-axil, ap- 

 proximately [)laced at the base of the ' langtrieb ' of this year and at the 

 top of the ' kurztrieb,'* glabrous, yellowish-viridescent, 6 mm. long. Male 

 tiower : pedicel gracile, glabrous, about as long as the flower. Calyx 4-fid ; 

 lobes erect, subulato-lanceolate, acuminate with a subcallose i)oint, trinerved 

 without veinlets ; tube e(|ual to or hardly shorter than lobes in length, ob- 

 conico-cankpanuhite, acute at the base, disk very thin. Petals 4, inserted 

 to the throat, one-half as long as the calyx-lobes, thinly membranceous, 

 elli[)tical, acute, entire, one-nerved witii a few and loose veinlets. Stamens 

 4, longer than petals but shorter than calyx-lobes ; filament subulate ; anther 

 linear, as long as the filament. liudimentary pistil short and minute. 

 Female tlower : pedicel gracile, glabrous, longer than the flower. (Jalyx 

 4-fid ; lobes erect, longer than the tube, subulato-lanceolate, acuminate 

 with a subcallose point, trinerved without veinlets ; tube globose, the u[)[)er 

 portion deciduous as well as the lobes, disk very thin. Petals imperfectlv 

 present or none, linear, entire or bifid above. liudimentary stamens 

 minute, subulate. Pistil slightly exserted ; ovary free, globose, thick at 

 the apex, a little exserted from the remaining calyx-tube, 3-locular ; ovule 

 solitary in each loculament ; style erect, thickish, IJ-sulcate, glabrous, 3-fid, 

 arms hardly shorter than the main portion, arcuato-erect-[>atent ; stigma 

 arcuate, linear-oblong. Fruit obovoid-globose, longitudinally 3-sulcate, 



with 3 pyrento, girt with the persistent fiat lower })ortion of the calyx at 

 the base, about 7 mm. across, smooth, glabrous, green ; pyrena cartilagi- 

 nous ; 1-seeded, indehiscent (?) ; p.edicel 8-1 1 mm. long. Seed obovoid, 

 close but not adherent to pyrena, 6 mm. long, nigrescent, smooth, shining, 

 one-sulcate dorsally, the groove close ; testa thin but subcrustaceous. Flowers 

 in May. 



NaO. Prov. Bitchij in Chugoku : Near Miyagochi in Atetsu-gori 

 {Zensuhe Yoshinol no. 573, Aug. 28, 1902, fruit. May 12, 1903, tlower). 



A rare species ; besides Chugoku, it is yet unknown from other localities. 



Rhamnus (Eurhanuius) dahurica Pall. ' It. 111. Ajip. p. 72J,' et Fl. 

 Hoss. II. p. 24, tab. 61 ; Poir. P^nc. n)eth. IV. p. 4(;7 : Willd. Sp. PI. ""l. 

 p. 1097; Pers. Syn. PI. I. p. 239; DC. Prodr. 11. p. 2.> ; Ledeb. Fl. 

 Iloss. I. p. 502; Maxim. Prim. Fl. Anuu". p. 7ti ; Hegel Tent. Fl. 



