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sensim acuta apice breviter acuta nervoque medio ultra marginem producto 

 mucronata, margine dentibus sursum spectantibus foliis inferioribus ininoribus 

 creniformibus superioribus valde prominentibus corniculatim dentiformibus 

 sursum uncinatis insignia, + 60 mm. longa, 25 mm. lata, supra lasvia subtus 

 prominulo-eostulata, punctulis prominulis dissitis ad marginem recurvuluin nee 

 crispatum hand crebrioribus prtedita. Inflorescentias in ramulorum specialium, 

 foliis + 4 instructorume apice sessiles, nutantes, umbellataa, + 8-flone, glabrse, 

 foliis multo breviores, pedicellis 8 mm. longis ; flores 7-7.5 mm. longi, glabri ; 

 sepala basi breviter coalita suborbicularia, latissime rotundata, dissite manifesto 

 punctulata ; petala basi breviter connata bene asymmetrica, subelliptica, oblique 

 breviter acuminulata, sicut sepala punctata ; atamina petalis non nisi paullo 

 breviora, antheris sensim acutis, dorso punctatis, rimis apice poratim dilatatis 

 dehiscentibtis ; ovarium ovoideum, laeve. " 



Ardisia (subg. Crispardisia) crispa (THUNB.) A. DC.; MEZ Myrsinaceee 

 in ENGLER Pfl.-reich p. 208 fig. 22, var.? 



Ardisia crispata HAYATA Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 180 (non KOXB). 



Differs from the Japanese specimens by the much narrower leaves and in 

 the simple umbelled inflorescence, or if compound, the primary raclias being 

 very much shorter than the secondary ones. 



Ardisia formosana ROLFE in Journ. Bot. XX. (1881) p. 358 ; MEZ 

 Myrsinacea3 in ENGLER Pfl.-reich p. 105. 



Very near Ardisia Sieboldii. The distinction between the two species A. 

 formosana and A. Sieboldii given by Mez is as follows. 



" Sepala triangularia ad ^connata; antheras fere sessiles A. formosana 



Sepala ovata, libera ; antherae manifesto stipitatee A. Sieboldii" 



I have examined my very rich collections of A. Sieboldii and its allies from 

 Formosa, but have never found any flower with sessile anthers. It is very 

 probable that A. formosana was described from young flowers of A. Sieboldii. 



Ardisia (subg. Crispardisia} Konishii HAYATA sp. nov. Frutex ? Eami et 

 ramuli validiusculi glabri pallido cinerascentes, cicatricibus foliorum et ramu- 

 lorum notatis; ramulis specialibus floriferis 15-25 cm. longis gracilibus glaber- 

 rimis pallidissirnis post anthesin a ramo solutis. Folia obovato-oblanceolata vel 

 lanceolata circ. 12cm. longa circ. 3cm. lata apice breve acuminata vel cuspidato- 



