66 ',■;■; f.iur. jl-;ib \!i ü M Vn Jt< PI -M- 



This species is closely related to Rhaiiauis alnifn/.'ii L'Jlcrit-" of North 

 America, ha\in,,^ S-nieroiis dicpccidus flowers and no petals. I5ut it is easily 

 distinL;uishcd from the latter by its broader leaves, which have abruptly 

 cuspidate apices and more ninneroLis closely set and [jromincnt lateral nerves, 

 and also by its lai'Ljer fruits. 



Last .vear, Mr. 15. Fshida collected on Mt. Yubari the Ii\-ing specimens 

 of this plant, which are now cultivated in our Botanical Garden. These plants 

 produced a few female flowers this >'car, but failed to yield ripened fruits. 

 This summer, he brous4ht back again a large number of the li\ing specimens 

 to the Garden from Mt. Pinneshiri, in the province of Hidaka, where it 

 grows abuntlaiitly near tlie top) of that mountain. 



143. Arctostaphylos Uva-virsi Spreng. Syst. Veg. II. p. 287; DC. 

 I'ridr. V\\. p. 5X4; tdiam. et Schi, in IJnnaca I. p. 5j8; Lcdeb. Fl. Ross. 

 II. p. 909; A. Gray, ¥\. X. Am. II. i. p. 27; Fr. Schm. FL .Sachal. p. 157; 

 Herder, PL Radd. Monop. IV. i. p. 43: Miyabe, Fl. Kuril, p. 247; Kurtz, 

 Fl. Chilcat. in Kngl. Bot. Jahrb. XIX. p. 393 : Dippel, Handb. Laubholzk. 

 I. p. 342; Britt. and Br. IlL FL II. p. 57^; Kom. FL Mansh. III. p. 212; 

 C. K. Sehn. 111. Handb. I.aubholzk. II. p. 543; Miyabe and Miyake, FL 

 Saghal. p. 303. 



Ar:>!(tus Cva-itrsi L. Spec. PL ecL i, p. 395; Pall. FL Ross. I. 2. p. 

 48. 



Arctostaphylos officinal :s Wim. et Grab. F'L Silesiae I. p. 391. 



Arctostaphylos procumbens E. Mey., in Patze, ;Me\-. et Elk. Fl. Preuss. p. 

 188. 



NoM. J.\p. Kumakokentmno. 



H.\[!. Saghalien. On the coast of Tschai-wo (Yoshio Kusano 1^ 192 1"). 

 Kurihs. Without locality (ex Pallas). 



DisTKin. Saghalien, Kuriles, Northern Manchuria, Eastern Siberia, Chuk- 

 chi Peninsula, Baical-, Altai- and Ural-regions, Caucasus, Arctic and Northern 

 P'urope and North America. 



I) Rhamni'.S aInifoliUS L'llerit Sert. Angel, p. 5; Dippel, Handb. Laubholzk. II. p. 525; 

 r.ritt. and Br. 111. Fl. II. p. 406, f. 2393: C. K. Sehn. 111. Handb. Laubholzk. II. p. 277. 



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