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22 TRE JOURNAL OF JAPANESE BOTANY. [Voi. i. No. o. 



base, entire or very minutely crenulate, thinly coriaceous, green and 

 thinly pilose with depressed gilvous hairs but soon glabrate above, 

 pale and pubescent on midrib and veins beneath, 3-5| cm. long, 2-4 

 cm. wide ; midrib impressed as are veins above, j)rominent as are 

 veins beneath, densely villoso-tomentose with white hairs below* as is 

 the petiole ; veins about 3-5 on each side, pinnato-subflabellate, 

 delicate ; veinlets finely |eticulated, impressed above, finely subbul- 

 late between veinlets ; petiole about 4-7 mm. long, denselj- villoso- 

 tomentose with white (gilvescent when dried) hairs usually as is the 

 branchlet of this year under petioles. Bud ovoid ; perulae broad, 

 concave, viscid, fulvous, ciliated, deciduous, semiorbicular to ovate, 

 the interior one longer and attaining about 11 mm. long. Ilowers 

 praecocious, usually 2-1 at the top of branchlets of last year, ap- 

 proximate, pedicellate, directing laterally, bright purjole, about 4-4| 

 cm. across ; pedicel usually stout, terete, |-13 mm. long, about 2 mm. 

 across, viridescent, adpressedly tomentoso-pubescent with white or 

 gilvous hairs. Calyx extremely short, 5-angulato-lobed, ciliated. 

 Corolla campanulato-infundibuliform, glabrous, scarcely deep-purple- 

 maculate in face, the spots small, longitudinally linear to oblong, 

 straight or nearly so ; tube short, thickish, turbinate, about 6-10 mm. 

 long ; Umb subbilabiate ; lower 2 lobes oblong, rounded at the apex, 

 entire, about 25-28 mm. long, 13-15 mm. Avide ; upper 3 lobes broad- 

 er, oval or elliptical-oval, or rarely orbiculate, rounded or subtruncato- 

 ro\inded at the apex, entire, 23-25 mm. long, 15-19 mm. wide, the 

 posterior one often slightly smaller. Stamens 10, declinate, unequal 

 in length, posterior ones shorter than the corolla, but anterior ones 

 more or less exserted. Style declinate, arcuate upwards, slightly 

 shorter than the anterior stamens ; ovary narrowly ovoid, densely 

 pubescent with sericeous hairs, about 4 mm. long. Capsule conico- 

 cylindrical, curved, about |-1J cm. long, 5-sulcate, depressed-pubes- 

 cent ; pedicel straight, pubescent,' ^-Ig cm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Tögoku-mitsubatsufsuji (nov. nom.). 



Sab. JAPAN, eastern, mountains. 



Flowers in May. This species is very closely allietl to Bhod. 

 rhomhicum Miq., Avhicli is very common on hills and mountains of 

 western Japan. I have named this species in memory of Mr. Dzibe 

 Wada, a member of Yokohama Botanical Society. 



(To he conlimied.) 



