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Folia chartacea, ovato-oblonga vel ovato-elliptica apice acuminata, basi 

 rotundato-obtusa vel rotundata, 10 cm. longa 4 cm. lata, margine remote 

 mucronato-serralata, (mucronibus a se 4 mm. remotis), nigricantia, costis supra 

 tenuiter elevatis subtus valde elevatis, venis supra tenuiter subtus distincte 

 elevatis, venis lateralibus primariis utroque latere 6, costis subtus breve 

 hirsutis vel subglabratis, venis arcuatis, petiolis 12 mm. longis T V~plo laminam 

 sequantibus. Flores non visi. Capsula paniculata, (pedicellis 1 cm. longis) 

 3-valvatim dehiscens, ovata, apice apiculata, valvis lignoso-coriaceis. Semina 

 subquadrantiformia interiore recurvata, arillis rubris. 



HAB. Arisan, Jan. 1912, leg. B. HAYATA et S. SASAKI. 



Near C. articulattts, but differs from it in having much longer narrower 

 leaves. 



Gymnosporia W. et A. 



Gymnosporia trilocularis HAYATA sp. nov. Kami subrecti teretes, 

 cortice cinerasceuti longitudinaliter sulcato-ruguloso. Folia ad ramulos brevis- 

 simos laterales ternatim sita, obovata vel obovato-cuneata, 5 cm. longa 33 mm. 

 lata, coriacea, apice rotundata, basi cuneata, in exsiccato remote crenata, ad 

 sinus crenarum nigro-mucronato-punctata, costis supra distincte costatis, subtus 

 elevatis, venis lateralibus supra tenuissime subtus distincte elevatis grosse 

 reticulatis, petiolis 4 mm. longis circ. ^-plo laminam sequantibus supra utro- 

 que latere subalatis sulcatis. Cymse ad apicem ramorum brevissimorum 

 lateralium fasciculate. Flores non visi. Cymse fructiferse 3 cm. longse, pedice- 

 llis 1 cm. longis. Capsula trilocularis, valvis late rotundatis 5 mm. lougis apice 

 mucronatis. Semina oblonga, 3 mm. longa, 2 mm. lata, testa nitida fusco- 

 rubescenti, basi arillata. 



HAB. Kotosho : litore occidentali, leg. K. MIYAKE, Nov. 1899. 



Celastrus trilocularis HAYATA in Herb. Mus. Taihoku. 



The present plant is near G. diversifdium MAXIM., from which this is 

 distinguishable by the larger leaves and trilocular capsules. 



