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validiusculis. Fructus sessilis globosus prasmaturus 4 mm. longus apice grosse 

 apiculatus, apiculis globosis 1 mm. in diametro basi calycis lobis semi-rotundatis 

 triangularibus mm. longis instructis, lobos calycis superantibus. 



HAB. Mt. Morrison, ad 7500 ped. alt., leg. U. MORI (No. 1729), Oct. 1906. 



Eesembles Symplocos spicata KOXB. in the spicate sessile globose fruits, 

 but differs from it by the very much smaller oblongo-lanceolate leaves with very 

 different venation. 



Symplocos eriobotrysefolia HAYATA sp. nov. (Tab. X. et Fig. 26). 

 Arborescens ? Kamuli recti validiusculi, cortice fusco-rubescenti glabro, latere 

 profuse glomerulos florum gerentes per totam longitudinem foliati teretes. Folia 

 coriacea lanceolata lineari-lanceolata vel oblanceolata apice subito acuta vel 

 acuminata ad summum obtusa basi obtusa 12 cm. longa 28 mm. lata margine 

 integra plus minus recurva vel obscure remotissime mucronibus instructa, costa 

 supra impressa subtus prominente elevata, venis supra impressis subtus tenuiter 

 elevatis, areolis inter venas laterales supra elevatis convexis subtus impressis 

 concavis, venis lateralibus primariis titroque latere 9-10 angulo 45 a costa 

 divaricatis, venulis supra subtusque vix vel hand visis, pagine utraque glabra 

 supra viridia subtus pallidissima, petiolis 2 cm. longis triquetris intus concavis 

 vel sulcatis dorso triangulari-convexis ad angulo acutis in exsiccato rubro- 

 purpurascentibus. Flores radiatim -20 -30-glomerati, glomerulis in ramo lateral! 

 defoliato lateraliter sitis per- 

 fecte sessilibus ; bractea sub 

 flore singulo unica triangulari- 

 rotundata 2| mm. longa totius- 

 que lata intus glabra margine 

 integra interdum 2-3 mucroni- 

 bus majoribus \ mm. longis in- 

 structa extus dense ferrugineo- 

 rubro-tomentosa dorso haud 

 carinata, bracteolis sub flore 

 singulo duabus subrotundatis quarn bractea minoribus 2 mm. longis totiusque 

 latis intus glabris margine integris extus dense ferrugineo-tomentosis dorso dis- 

 tincte carinatis. Calyx late obconicus 3 mm. longus 4 mm. latus intus glaber 



Fig. 26, Symplocos eriobotrycefolia HAYATA; a, 

 corolla, expanded x 3. 



