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glabro. Corollas tubuliformes extus primum pubescentes dcmum glabrata?, 

 tuLo l^cm. longo 3-4 mm. lato sursum minus lato deorsum latiore ad basin 

 subito ad 1 mm. contracto, limbo 4-partito, partibus linearibus 6 mm. longis 

 medio minus quam 1 mm. latis apice acuto-obtusis deorsum plus minus dilata- 

 tis utraque pagine glabris valvatis supra basin subito flexis deorsum exteriore 

 reflexis. Stamina 4, filamentis ad basin lobo corollas affixis complanatis 2 mm. 

 longis glabris ^ mm. latis intus leviter canaliculatis, antheris linearibus 2^ mm. 

 longis quam parte libera filamentorum longioribus apice obtusis basi ad fila- 

 mentum abeuntibus minus quam ^ mm. latis 2-locularibus. Ovarium inferius 

 apice glabrum stylophoris (vel discis) ^ mm. longis coronatum, stylo filiformi 

 2 cm. longo acuto-tetragono apice clavato stigmatoso. Pseudobacca obovoideo- 

 ellipsoidea 7 mm. longa 3| mm. lata verrucosa apice cum dentibus calycis et 

 reliquis stylophoris coronata. 



HAB. Kcshun : Shijukei, leg. S. SASAKI, Feb. 1911, (typus ! fl. et fr.); ibi- 

 dem, leg. T. SdMA, Aprili. 1912, (No. 28). 



Near L. ritomneiisis HAY., but easily separable from it by the much 

 shorter anthers. 



Pseudixiese HAYATA tribus novus Loranthacearum. 



Perianthii lobi 3. Stamina 3 lobis perianthii alterna a lobis libera sed 

 se perfecte conjugata. Placenta basalis ; embryo-saccus 1 (vel 2 ?) oblongus haud 

 U-formis. 



The new tribus differs from Bifarieae VAN TIEGHEM by the stamens alter- 

 nate with the perianth-lobes, and by the basal placenta and oblong embryosac. 



Pseudixus HAYATA. 



On Pseudixus, a new genus of Loranthacea?, founded on the well- 

 known and widely distributed species, Viscum japonicum THUNB. in Tokyo 

 Bot, Mag. XXIX. pp. 3134. Bifaria VAN TIEGHEM in Bull. Soc. Bot, Fr. 

 XLIII (1896) p. 173, pro parte. 



Perianthii tubus in fl. $ brevissimus solidus in fl. -^ ovario adnatas ; 

 limbus 3-partitus, partibus valvatis. Anthera3 in fl. -9- nullaj ; in fl. ^ in 

 centro perianthii sitaa 3 sessiles 2-loculares cum lobis perianthii alternas a lobis 

 perianthii liberaa sed se undique perfecte connata synandrium formantes ; 



