60 CELASTRINE.E. 



Cassine LINN. 



Cassine illiciifolia HAYATA sp. nov. (Tab. XI.) Frutex? Kami et 

 ramuli subgraciles, longitudinaliter rugulosi, lenticellati, ramulis ultimis (cortice 

 subfusco-rubescenti) glabris longitudinaliter subalatis sulcato-rugulosis cicatrici- 

 bus foliorum semi-oblongis notatis. Folia opposita ovata obovato-lanceolata, 

 apice acuta acumiiiata, ad summum obtusa, basi cuneata, acuminata, 

 gradatim ad petiolum abeuntia, circ. 7 cm. longa 2|-3 cm. lata chartacea vel 

 tenuiter coriacea vel membranaceo-coriacea, in exsiccato supra pallida, nitida, 

 subtus albo-pallidissima, costis supra distincte graciliter elevatis subtus 

 planis non distinctis, venis lateralibus primariis tenuissimis distinctis utroque 

 latere 7-8 subrectis angulo 40-50 a costa egressis subtus non distinctis, 

 margine integerrima, petiolis T V~Pl laminam sequantibus subalatis subplicatis 7 

 mm. longis glabris. Flores breve cymosi vel solitarii, cymis axillaribus dicho- 

 tome ramosis paucifloratis, pedicellis 3 mm. longis apice 2-bracteatis, bracteis 

 rotundato-triangularibus 1 mm. longis subacutis margine rubro-denticulatis. 

 Calyx obconicus, lobis 4 decussatim imbricatis late rotuiidatis 1 mm. longis 

 2 mm. latis, margine fimbriato-albo- vel -rubro-ciliatis pagine glabris. Petala 

 4 calycis lobis alterna, ad faucem calycis affixa ovato-oblonga 2 mm. longa 

 1^ mm. lata crassiuscula apice obtusa denticulata exteriore reflexa, basi con- 

 tracta -^ mm. lata, latere margine integra, intus convexa extus concava. 

 Stamina 4, ad faucem calycis affixa, filamentis validiusculis rectis, 

 antheris reniformibus versatilibus introrsum deliiscentibus. Discus sub- 

 campanulatus calycis tubo adnatus, apice 4-lobatus, lobis liberis cum stamine 

 alternis late liguliformibus f mm. latis -J mm. longis. Rudimentum ovarii (vel 

 ovarium?) subconicum brevissimum 2-loculare, loculis 1-ovulatis, stylo breve 

 columnari cum ovariis 1-J mm. longo tenuiter 4-sulcato. Capsula obovoideo- 

 cylindrica 13 mm. longa 5 mm. lata, pericarpio coriaceo, 1-sperma. Semina 

 obovoidea 12 mm. longa, testa rubra. 



Otherodendron illiciifolium* HAYATA in Sched. (Herb. Taihoku Museum.) 



* The genus Otherodendron MAKING, to which the present plant with the following two species 

 was provisionally referred, is separated from Cassine LINN, in having a dehiscent capsule. The 

 fruit of the former has very similar structure as that of the latter which has sometimes 1 or 2 

 seeds within a hard coriaceous pericarp. 



