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minus obliqua, apiee obtusa basi rotundato-obtusa, apice plus minus plicata, 

 supra iiitida, subtus opaca, utrinque glabra, supra ad costas basin tenuissime 

 hirtellata vel glabra, margine Integra, costis supra, impressis, subtus elevatis 

 venis primariis lateralibus utroque latere 6, angulo 4QP a costa egressis, 

 venis et venulis utroque pagine elevatis, exsiccato supra glauca fuscentia, pe- 

 tiolis li cm. longis supra leviter sulcatis. Flores paniculati, paniculis axilla- 

 ribus terminations folia duplo superantibus, divaricatis, si axillaribus, 

 7-8 cm. lougis cum pedunclis, pedmiculis 3-4 cm. loiigis, sursum ramosis, ramis 

 divaricatis alternis oppositis geminatis ternatis, pedicellis ultimis 2-5 mm. 

 longis, floreni in longitudine fequantibus vel superantibus, depresso-pubescen- 

 tibus, bracteis basin pedicellorum obsoletis vel minimis triangularibas latio- 

 ribus quam longioribus. Calyx 5-partitiis, sepatis 5, coriaceis erectis, ovato 

 n (tundatis 2^- mm. longis 2 mm. latis, extus hirsutis, intas glaberrimis, margine 

 ciliolatis, j-im anthesin, imbricatis, semiclausis. Corolla alba campanulakv, 

 10 mm. longa totiusque lata, vel Litiora, tubo olxx>nioo-campanulato, 2mm. 

 longo, b'nibo late campanulato, intus gla-bro, (extus parti bus exposis alabastro- 

 mm villoso-hirsutis lanceolatis crass iuscul is, partibns imbricatis tenuissimis 

 glabris) alte o-fido, lobis dupb'cato-convolutis obcuneiformibus, 10 mm. longis 

 sursum 6-7 mm. latis margine crenato-undulatis, apice 2-lobatis, lolis quadran- 

 gularibus 3 mm. longis apice obttiso-troncatis. Stamina 5, valde inclusa 

 supra basin corolla? affixa, partibus liberibas filaraentorura 1 mm. longis oom- 

 planatis apice angustiti^. antheris obcuneatis dorsifixis, apice cuspidatis, 1| 

 mm. longis basi cordatis, conuectivis crassiasculis. Ovarium oblongum 2 mm. 

 longum utrinque truncaturn, 4-loculare, loculis 1-ovnlatis, stigrnate sessili 

 globoso, irregulariter 10-sulcak> 4 mm. longo. Fructus baccatus, calyce non 

 accresceuti, obovoideo-ellipsoideus, 1^ cm. longus 1 mm. latus, exsiccato nigri- 

 cans, 1-spermus, glaljer. Semina ovoidea 12 mm. longa, testa niernbranaoea 

 pericarpio adherente, alljumine circ. iiullo. Eml)ryo palb'do-viridis, radicula 

 brevissima caudicuLa juxta radiculam siti, rotyledouibus (sub-accumlentibus) 

 multilobatis, lobis irregiilariter plicatis. 



HAB. Mt. Teraso, prope Koshiin, leg. B. H.\.YATA et S. SASAKI. 



The specimen of the plant just de-cribed was collected 1 y Messrs. 

 S. SASAKI and TSFDA, and myself in Mt. Teraso near Kosliuu in my la>t 



