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basiiixed, about 3^ mm. long, yellow but fulvous after bursting. Ovary 

 ovoid-globose, smooth, glabrous, punctate, virideacent, about 1^ mm. across, 

 1-celled, sub-several-ovuled ; style erect, filiform, glabrous, slightly exceeding 

 stamens, about 4mm. long; stigma terminal, not thick. Fruit red, globose 

 and hardly depressed, minutely concave at top, smooth, shining, with 

 the reflexed persistent calyx at base, 1-seeded, 9 mm. across ; pedicel 

 6-11 mm. long; peduncle attaining about 7^ cm. long. Flowers in July, 



Hah. ToKARA Archip.: Isl. Naka-no-shima, s^wnt. {Y. Tashlro ! 1890); 

 Prov. Tosa: Sakawa, cult. (7". 3Idldno\ 1897); Prov. Higo : Kurokami- 

 mura in Hotaku-gori, spont. in Bamboo grove {H. Nahagaica ! Nov. 29, 

 1897) ; Prov. JMusashi : Tokyo, Bot. Gard. Koishikawa, cult. (Herb.! So. 

 Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Aug. 23, 1883), and cultivated from Mt. Kiyo- 

 sumi, prov. Awa = Boshu {T. Makinol July 1904). 



This is allied to Ardisia crispa A. DC. { = Bladhia crispa Thunk), 

 but differs apparently from it, by much narrower and inpunctate leaves ; 

 scale (caducous)-bearing and often leafless peduncles ; shorter and stouter 

 pedicels ; usually simple umbel (though sometimes is compound). This is 

 found growing wild in wooded [)laces in middle and southern Japan, but 

 it is also cultivated ; under the cultivation there are various garden forms. 

 The specimen from Tokara Archipelago, collected by Mr. Yasusada Tashiro 

 as quoted above, is sufficiently developed having the much broader leaves. 



Scil-pus (Silvatica3) karuisawensis Makino sp. nov, (Photogr. 1.) 

 Perennial, attaining about Im. or more in height ; rhizome very short; 

 roots fibrous, dense, with many short lootlets. Leaves angustato-linear, 

 long-acuminate, triquetrous towards the acutish or subobtuse apex, glabrous, 

 but serrulato-scabrous on margin, rigid ; radical ones copious and densely 

 CEespitose, shorter than the stem, finely striate below, clasping and evaginate 

 below ; cauline ones erect, remote, attaining about 5 mm. in width, ser- 

 rulato-scabrous on the midrib beneath, vaginate at base, the vagina attaining 

 7 cm. long and truncate at the mouth, the uppermost leaf exceeding the 

 panicle. Stem erect, straight, slender, attaining about 4mrn. in diameter 

 at base, smooth, shining, subtrigono-terete with obtuse angles, nodes not 

 prominent. Cymes compound and forming an elliptical to ovate panicle 

 4-13 cm. long ; the terminal cyme sessile ; lateral peduncles (radii) few, 

 erect, unequal in length, the longest one about 8 cm., slender, glabrous, 

 the basal vagina tubular, obliquely truncate, attaining about l.^cm. long; 

 involucral leaves 2-3, angustato-linear, long-acuminate, the outer ones 



