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arcuate above, reaching to the apex of teeth, about 6-8 on each 

 side, the lower ones (except the lowest one) with a few second 

 veins on the under side above; main- veinlets transverse between 

 the veins, delicate, prominent beneath, with reticulated small not 

 conspicuous veinlets between them; petiole densely covered with 

 stellate pale-fulvous hairs, 5-15 mm. long. Alabastra 3 on the top of 

 the axillary short common peduncle, very densely covered with fulvous 

 stellate hairs as well as the peduncle, which has caducous small 

 bracts; bracteoles under the alabastra rotund and concave. 



Nom. Jap. Atetfiu-manmku (nov.). 



Hah. Pro v. BITCHU : Mt. Kurokami near Niimi m Atetsu-gori 

 (T. IVIakino! Aug. 5, 1914). 



This species differs from Hamamelis jajMnica Sieb, et Zucc. by 

 having the glaucous leaves, which are wholly covered with hairs. 



Hamamelis obtusata (Matsum.) Making in Bot. Mag., Tokvo, 

 XXVII. (1913), p. 150. 



forma flaYO-purpurascens Making, nov. 



Branches terete, griseo-avellaneous, dispersed with punctate 

 lenticels. Leaves rhombeo-obovato-orbicular or rhombeo-oval, broad- 

 ly ouneate below. Petals narrower, 1| mm. wide in the middle 

 jDortion, slightly broader in the lower, yellow but purpurascent and 

 deeper-coloured veined towards the lower portion gradually. 



Nom. Jap. NishiH-ma)isa/i-H (nov.). 



Hab. JAPAN, central? (T. Making! March 1916). 



Shortia soldanelloides (Sieb, et Zucc.) Making in Bot. Mag,, 

 Tokyo, XXI. (1907), p. 31. 



Scliizocodon soldmwUoidcs Sieb, et Zucc. in Abh. Akad. Muench. 

 III. p. 725, tab. 2, fig. 1. 



Yar. magna Making, nov. var. 



Rhizome stout, long-creeping, ramose, rooting. Leaves long- 

 petiolate, orbiculate, cordate at the base, subtruncato-retuse with 

 an acute depressed-deltoid tooth at the apex, numerously dentate 

 on margins with mucronate de^^ressed-deltoid teeth, coriaceous, 

 attaining about 11 cm. long, 11^ cm. broad. Flowers often sub- 

 paniculated, long-scapose, about 17-18 mm. long, lilac or rarely pale- 

 lilac. 



Nom. Jap. (J-ivmlagami. 



Hah. Prov. ÖMI (T. Making!). 



This is not uncommon on hills of the the central Japan. 



{To be continued.) 



