— 196 — 



cissimae. Folia coriacea. Flores atropurpiirei. Cap- 

 sula 10 mm, alta et lata, basi turbinata, apice trun- 

 catoconcava, sub 4 — 3-loba, lobis dorso breve cari- 

 natoalatis, valvis post dehiscentiara obcordatis, coria- 

 ceis, roseis. Arillus trientem v. dimidiumseminisfusci, 

 ovoidei, 3 mm. longi vestiens, ex sicco miniatus. Al- 

 bumen ochroleucum, Embryo parum brevioi flavescens, 

 cotyledones late ovales planae non multo radiculam 

 superantes. 



Capsula 4-partita. 



17. E. alata Thunb. Fl. Jap. 98 (sub Gelastro). 

 Siebold, Syn. pl. oecon. n. 268. Sieb. Zucc. Fl. 

 Jap. fam. nat. n. 158. Miq. Prol. 18, 363. Fr. Sav. 

 Enum. I, 78. E. Thunhergianus Bl. Bijdr. 1147. 

 Baker et Moore in Journ. Linn. soc. XVII, 380. 

 E. subtriflorus Bl. 1. c. Sieb. Zucc. 1. c. n. 159. 

 Melanocarya alata Turcz. inBulI.Mosc. 1858.1,453. 

 Gelastrus striata Thunb. Fl. Jap. 98 et Icon. ined. ! 

 (exalata fructifera)'. 



Typica: glabra, ramis pl. m. suberoso 4-alatis, pe- 

 dunculis 1 — 3-floris. Thunb. Ic. pl. Jap. dec. IV, 3. 

 (frf. s. n. C. alati). 



In Japonia: Nagasaki (Buerger!), Miako (idem!), 

 Yokoska (Savatier!), Senano (Tschonoski!), Yoko- 

 hama et Hakodate (ipse), Tsusima (Wilford!); Ma7i- 

 dshuria mstraW: prov. Schin-king, ad Fung-whang- 

 shan (Ross, fide Baker et Moore); Ghina media: 

 prope Slianghai collibus Feng-wang-shau (Forbes!). 



^. suhtriflora Francli. Sav. 1. c. II, 511. Bi. sp. 

 pr. Gkibra, rarais exalatis, pedunculis ut in praece- 

 dente 1 — 3-floris, v. h)ngi()rihus sub-^-floris. 



