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palentibus, post anthesin laxe reflexis; petala obovata, unguiculata, alba vel rosea, demum palentia; 

 stamina in flore erecto-patenlia, post anthesin patula (non conniventia), filamentis inferne vix (hhitatis; 

 carpopliorum tomentosum; carpella ca. 30, ovariis pilosis, styhs glal)ris; fruclus parvi, globosi, non 

 tomentosi. 



Var. oxycomus Focke 1. c. 



Rami, pelioli pcdunculique aculeis acicularibus setisc|ue glanduliferis instructi. 



In Zentralchina, insbesondere im westlichen Hupeh und in Szechuan. 



Fig. 82. R. mesogaeus Focke. 



259. R. kanayamensis Leveille et Vaniot in Bull. soc. bot. France FIII (4. ser. VI) p. 549 (1906). 



Descriptio aulorum: ,,Affinis i?. pa/7(/c/?/; Camb., a quo differt floribus 2—3 aggregatis, foliis 

 dentatis, non incisis et pedicellis glandulosis. 



Japon: Yezo, forets de Kanayama, juillet 1905 no. 6688 (Urbain Faurie)". 



Caules (turiones) inferne dense setoso-aculeati, altero anno aculeolato-scabridi; rami recentes el 

 petioli puberuli, aciculis inaequalibus crebris vel sparsis instructi; petioli supra sulcati; foiia ranu^runi 

 fertilium ternata; foliola grosse inaequaliter serrato-dentata. in ufraque pagina viridia et parce pilosa; 

 terminale ovatum vel suborbiculari-ovatum, breviter acuminatum, lateralia subsessilia. Inflorescentia 

 terminalis in ramis vahdis foliosa, laxe panniculata, in minoribus subcorymbosa, saepe jjauciflora. 



