Phyllodoce (F'arabiyanthus) nlpponica Makino sp. nov. 



Phylloiloce taxifolia Maxim. Ehodod. As. Or. p. 16, quoad pi. Jap. 



PhjVodoce taxifolia Franch. ct Sav. Enura. PL Jap. I. p. 286, et IT. 

 p. 427; Matsum. Cat. Herh. C..11. Sc. Imp. Univ. (1886) p. 119, et. 

 Shoknbiitsn Mei-i (189.5) p. -213, ii. 231.3; fSarsent, For. FI. Jap. j). 10; 

 Yabe, Ennm. PI. Alp. Mount. Sbirouma in P>ot. Mag., Tokyo, XVII. 

 (1903) p. 23, non Salisb. 



PhyUodnre taxifolia F,ois. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. V. (1897) p. 914, ex 

 parte? non Salisb. 



A small evergreen shrub, 6-30 cm. high, ramose from the base; the 

 main stems ascending, many branched, the largest one about 5 mm. across 

 at the base ; branches erect, fastigiate, slender, thinly hispid and often 

 pnberuleiit, or sometimes only puberulent, griseo- umber or sooty sometimes 

 griseo-castaneous as is the main stem, but ferrugineo-fulvous towards the 

 extremities. Leaves patent or erect-patent, sparse, rather dense, shortly 

 pitiolate, linear, shortly attenuated to the petiole at the base, obtuse at 

 the apex, spinuloso-serrulate with cartilaginous erect-patent minute teeth on 

 edges throughout, tumid and with margins strongly reflexed to the midrib, 

 glabrous, rigid, glossy, subundnlato-convex and deep green and with a chan- 

 nel in centre above, slightly convex (but flat or slightly concave when 

 dried) and paler and with a broad midrib densely covered with minute 

 short white hairs excepting the base beneath, 4-15 mm. long, 1-2 mm. 

 across ; petiole adpressed, glabrous, about §-1 mm. long, reddish in recent. 

 Flowers turned laterally, rose-coloured, pedicellate ; pedicels much exceeding 

 the leaves, axillary, solitary, umbellately 1-9-aggregated at the top of 

 branches, erect, gracile, papilloso-pubescent throughout, 1-3 cm. long, bi- 

 bracteate at the base ; bracts opposite, sessile, embracing the base of pedicels, 

 very concave, broadly ovate, obtuse, entire, glabrous, but ciliolated with 

 white curved hairs on margins, thicUish, 1-nerved, persistent. Calyx con- 

 cave at the base, .'D-sejialed ; sepals erect-patent, glabrous, subulato-ovate to 

 elliptico-ovate, acutish or obtuse, minutely subciliated on margins, thickish, 

 sub-3-nerved, 2^-3 mm. long, viridescent-pur})le or purple. Corolla broadly 

 open-campanulate, about 2^-times as long as the calyx, 5-7 mm. long, 

 about 5-6 mm. across, glabrous, 5-lobed ; lobes i-^ as long as the tube, 

 reflexed, ovato-semiorbicular, rounded-obtuse at the apex. Stamens 10, 

 , included, rather eq:ial in length, shorter than the corolla-tube, 2^-3^ mm. 

 long; filament filiform-linear, slightly dilated at the base, glabrous ; anther 

 much fchurter than the filament, oblong, truncate and bilobed at the apex, 

 shortly biauriculate at the lower end, attached by its back to the filament, 



