Flacourtiaceae; Stachyuraceae; Thymelaeaceae 643 



celled; sepals nearly round, short-pubescent on outer side; brown with black striations. Sept. Near seashores; Hon- 



stamens much longer than the sepals; berry globose, black, shu (Kinki Distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Ryu- 



about 5 mm. across; style very short, the stigma thickened; kyus, Formosa, and China, 

 seeds 2-3, ovoid, about 4 mm. in diameter, rounded on back, 



2. IDESIA Maxim. Iigiri Zoku 



Deciduous dioecious tree; branches tliick, gray-brown, glabrous; leaves large, ovate-cordate or deltoid-cordate, 10-20 cm. long, 

 8-20 cm. wide, acuminate, shallowly cordate or truncately rounded at base, sparsely toothed, palmately 5- to 7-nerved, green, 

 glaucous and white-hairy beneath chiefly on the midrib near base, the petioles reddish, about as long as the blades, with two 

 sessile oblong glands at the top, young leaves with 1 or 2 additional pairs of petiolar glands; inflorescence paniculate, large, 

 20-30 cm. long, terminal and a.xillary, often somewhat subracemose, yellowish puberulent; flowers yellowish, the pedicels 1- 

 1.5 cm. long, the staminate 13-16 mm. across, the pistillate about 8 mm. across; sepals often with obscure teeth, nearly as long 

 as the stamens; petals absent; stamens numerous, on a small disc, the filaments hairy; staminodia of pistillate flowers small; 

 ovary glabrous, globose; placentae 5 (3-6), parietal; ovules many; styles about 2 mm. long, deciduous, the stigmas clavate- 

 globose; berry 8-10 mm, across, orange-red, with numerous small seeds. One species in e. Asia. 



1. Idesia polycarpa Maxim. Polycarpa maximowiczii accessory glands in young individuals; inflorescence pendulous. 



Linden ex Carr.; Cathayeia polycarpa (Maxim.) Ohwi 20-30 cm. long, yellowish puberulent, the pedicels 1-1.5 cm. 



JiGiRi. Branches thick, gray-brown, glabrous; leaves long- long; staminate flowers 13-16 mm. across, the sepals often with 



petiolate, ovate-cordate or deltoid-cordate, 10-20 cm. long, 8-20 obscure teeth, nearly as long as the stamens; pistillate flowers 



cm. wide, acuminate, shallowly cordate or truncately rounded about 8 mm. across; ovary glabrous, globose; styles about 2 



at base, rather loosely toothed, green on upper side, glaucous mm. long, deciduous, the stigma clavate-globose; fruit globose, 



and white-hairy chiefly on the midrib at base of leaf be- 8-10 mm. across, orange-red. Apr. Hills and mountains; 



neath, petioles reddish, about as long as the leaves, with 2 Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; often planted. Ryukyus, For- 



oblong sessile glands at apex, often with 1 to 2 more pairs of mosa, China, and Korea. 



Fam. 141. STACHYURACEAE Kibushi Ka Stachyurus FamUy 



Deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs; leaves alternate, simple, toothed, petioled; stipules small, caducous; flowers bisexual 

 or sometimes unisexual, actinomorphic, subsessile, in axillary pendulous racemes; sepals and petals 4, imbricate; stamens 8, 

 free; ovary superior, incompletely 4-locular by the intrusion of the parietal placentae; styles short, the stigma 4-lobed; ovules 



many; fruit a berry with a coriaceous pericarp; seeds many, soft arillate, with endosperm, the embryo straight. One genus 



with few species, in e. Asia and the Himalayas. 



1. STACHYURUS Sieb. & Zucc. Kibushi Zoku 



1. Stachyurus praecox Sieb. & Zucc. Kibushi. Large lipsoidal to nearly globose, yellowish at maturity, 8-12 mm. 



deciduous shrub; branches brown to red-brown, glabrous, long. Mar.-Apr. Thickets and thin woods in mountains; 



lustrous; leaves membranous to herbaceous, elliptic-ovate, ob- Hokkaido (sw. distr.), Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; common. 

 long, or narrowly ovate, 7-12 cm. long, i-6 cm. wide, long- Var. matsuzakii (Nakai) Makino. S. lancijolius Koidz.; 



acuminate, rounded at base, toothed, glabrous or thinly pubes- S. matsuza\ii Nakai; S. ovalif alius Nakai Namban-kibushi, 



cent especially on nerves beneath, the petioles 1-2.5 (-3) cm. Enoshima-kibushi, Hachijo-kibushi, Maritime form with 



long; racemes precocious, rather densely many-flowered, sub- thicker branches, larger and longer leaves 10-15 cm. long, and 



sessile, 4-10 cm. long, pendulous, glabrous, the bracts deltoid, larger fruit 10-15 mm. long. Thickets and thin woods near 



small, about 2 mm. long; flowers subsessile, about 7 mm. seashores; Honshu (Kanto Distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyu- 



long, campanulate, pale yellow to greenish yellow; petals shu. Ryukyus. 



about twice as long as the sepals, cuneate-obovate; fruit el- 



Fam. 142. THYMELAEACEAE Jinchoge Ka Mezereum Family 



Plants woody, rarely herbaceous; leaves opposite or alternate, simple, usually small; stipules absent; flowers usually actino- 

 morphic, usually in terminal heads, spikes, or racemes, bisexual or unisexual (plants then mostly dioecious) ; cal>'x tubular, 

 sometimes corollalike, the lobes 4 or 5, imbricate; petals absent or represented by 4-12 scales, inserted on the tube or throat of 

 calyx; stamens 2 to many, usually as many as the calyx-lobes and opposite them or twice as many, the disc scalelike, annular or 

 cup-shaped, sometimes absent; ovary superior, 1- to 2-locular; style lateral in 1-locular ovaries, the stigma capitate; ovules solitary 



in each locule, pendulous, anatropous; fruit indehiscent; seeds with or without endosperm, the embryo straight. About 



40 genera, with about 450 species, widely distributed in both hemispheres. 



lA. Inflorescence in terminal or axillary heads or in very short racemes, usually bracteate; disc absent or annular, sometimes lobcd on one 

 side; leaves usually alternate. 



2 A. Style short or absent, the stigma capitate 1 . Daphne 



2B. Style cylindric, the stigma elongate, linear; inflorescence nodding 2. Edgeworlhia 



