2 TJIE JOURNAL OF JAPANESE BOTANY. [Voi. i. Xo. i. 



Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovato-elliptical, ovato-lanceolate or lanceo- 

 late, long-attenuato-acuminate at the apex, obtuse at the base, in- 

 cumbent-serrulated with papillose-tipped teeth, membranaceous, 

 subconcolorous (very slightly paler beneath), adpressedly covered 

 with stellate pale hairs on the upper surface, but glabrous or 

 subglabrous in the basal ones of the branchlets, about 2-5| cm. long 

 and 1-2^ cm. broad in flower; midrib prominent beneath, impressed 

 above when fresh ; veins about 3-5 on each side, ascending from the 

 lower portion. Paniculated-cjme terminating the foliiferous short 

 branchlet of this year, cernuous, subloosely submany-flowered, 

 peduncled, 1|-4| cm. long; rachis gracile, glabrous, light green often 

 shaded with purple as are the pedicels; bracts narrowly linear, 

 acuminate, caducous, membranaceous, light green and shaded with 

 purple, attainmg about 6 mm. long. Flower small, pedicellate, 5- 

 lli mm. across; pedicels opposite, erect-patent, often Avith a mmute 

 subulate bracteole, l^-ß mm. long. Calyx-segments 5, erect-patent, 

 ovato-deltoid, shortly acuminate, entire, one-nerved, concave Avithin, 

 deciduous, glabrous, light green and often shaded with purple, or 

 sometimes, purplish on margin, 2-2| mm. long. Petals 5, patent, 

 often recurved or revolute dorsally on margin, broadly ovate, obtuse, 

 entire, white, or white and viridescent at the base, or light green 

 but broadly white towards the both margins, glal:)rous internally, 

 adpressedly covei'ed with white stellate hairs dorsally, marked Avith 

 2 vertical folded traces in the middle portion of the both sides, and 

 the outside portion of the trace-line thinner and more or less 

 crispate, 2|-6 mm. long, 2-4 mm. Avide, deciduous. Stamens 10, 

 inserted on margin of the epigynous disk, free, erect then erect- 

 patent, slightly exserted, shorter than the petals, introrse, opj)ositi- 

 sepalous 5 longer; filament compressed, subulato-rectangular-cuneate 

 or subulato-cuneate A\'ith an obscui'e or obvious or subhastate obtuse 

 angle above the middle on each edge, glabrous, Avhite or viridesent, 

 about l§-3 mm. long in the oppositisepalous 5, 1-2 mm. long in the 

 oppositipetalous 5; anther yelloAv or greenish-yellow, oval-ovate, 

 shortly bifid at the apex, cordate at the base, scantily Avith stellate 

 Avhite hairs, 1-lg mm. long; anther-cells oblong. Ovary inferior, 

 shortly turbinate, often obscurely 3^-furroAved beloAV, 1|-1| mm. 

 long, about 2 mm. across, deep green and sometinies shaded with 

 ]Dui-ple, smooth and thinly with adpressed stellate white hairs, 8- 

 celled, thickly Availed, Avith many minute ovules on the jjrojecting thick 

 placentas; epigynous disk truncate, annular, glabrous, deep- green; 

 styles 3-4, erect, about equalling the stamens in height, unequal 

 in length, stout-fihform, glabrous, wliite above and A'iridescent below; 

 stigma terminal, not thick, obtuse or obtusely short-tapering. 



