150 lAURINE.E. 



reticiilis valde elevatis atro-piiqmreis, ad orem intas aiipeudiciLiLs membraiiaceis 

 atropminireis amiuliformilnis deorsum reilexis 3 mm. longis instructi, limlw 

 l)asi suLerecto supra basin patenti S-loLato, loLis extus glaljenimis intus supra 

 liirsutis rotundato-triangidaribiis 1 J cm. longis 17 mm. latis imrtibus basilaribus 

 haud veiTUCosis apice triangulari-acutis basi plus minus contractis margine 

 integiis sed deorsum smsiunque uudidatissimis repandissimis basi circum orem 

 oo-seriatim auuulariter verrucosis, vcmicis dorso compressis membranaceis 2mm. 

 longis 3 muT. latis semi-rotundatis atro-pm-pra"eis. Stamina 12 cum ovario 

 connata, infra basin styli oriunda, antheris sessilibibiis oblongo-linearibus 2^ miu. 

 longis l^mm. latis, connectivis apice productis, partibus productis triangidaribu> 

 f mm. longis. Ovarium semi-superius 3 mm. longum, stylo 6-partito, partibus 

 erectis latere valde comiiressis 3 mm. longis 1 mm. latis apice oblique infequalitt-r 

 2-lobatis, loliis exterioribus longioribus apice dorso stigmatosis, partibus stigma- 

 tosis exteriore rccurvis uuciformibiLs, lobis iutcrioribus uou stigmatiferis brevis- 

 simis rectis leviter 2-lobulatis, lobulis obtusis. 



Laurineee. 

 Jieilschuiietlia Xees. 



Beilsclimiedia Tanakse Hayata sp. nov. (Fig. 53-A-b). Arbor, ramuli 

 teretes graciles 2-3 mm. in diametro fuscentes subglabri. Genuna foliifera ovoitlt-a 

 apice acuta. Folia membranacco-chartacea in exsiccato fuscentia utraque gla- 

 bciTima oblougo elliptica vel oljlougo-ovata lOcm. longa 41 cm. lata apice acuta, 

 acumine obtuso, basi obtusa ali(juaudo rotmidata sed ad extremitatem breve 

 decurrentia, costis venis vemdis utrar^ue pagine distincte prominenteque eleratis, 

 venis lateralibus utroque latere cost;v 11-12, mediis a costa angulo 50° egressis, 

 prominente venulato-reticulatis, reticulis veindaruui ruliesceiitibus circ. l-§ mni. 

 in diametro, teuuiter cartilagineo-marginata, petiolis 6 mm. longis glabris intus 

 profunde canaliculatis sulialatis. 



Hap.. Liukiu; Yanama: ]Mt. Urabu, leg. i^. Taxaka, 1887, Juui.(siiec. stcril.). 



Near Beilschmiedia crythropldoia Hayata, but quite diflerent from it in 

 having mucli thinucr chartaceous leaves with more distinctly clevated reticulation 

 on Ixith sides. 



Beilschmiedia erythrophloia H.vYATA(Fig. 53-A-a) Ic. PI. Fonuds. W. 



