PLANTS COLLECTED IN J1PAN. 311 



peduncles an inch long. Corolla, white, an inch and a quarter in diameter ; petals rounded. 

 E. ribifolius, Sieb. & Zucc, (judging from a specimen supplied by the Leyden herbarium,) is a 

 pubescent state of the same species, with shorter peduncles, acute lobes to the leaves, &c. 



Rubus hydrastifolius (n. sp.) : caulibus seu ramis inermibus cum petiolis tenuiter glanduloso- 

 pubescentibus ; foliis glabris e basi truncata vel subcordata subrotundis quinquefidis summisve 

 cuneato-rotundis trifidis, sinubus angustis, lobis fere aequilongis ovato-oblongis acutis nervoso- 

 venosis crebre duplicato-serratis nunc subincisis ; stipulis oblongo vel ovato-lanceolatis ; pedun- 

 culis axillaribus 3-5-floris (raro unifloris) petiolum superantibus ; calycis tomentulosi segmentis 

 triangulari-acuminatis petala rotundata alba hand ajquantibus. — Simoda. A well-marked, large- 

 leaved and large-flowered species. The specimens are probably short flowering branches from 

 a woody stem, no part of which was gathered, but the plant may be wholly herbaceous. Stipules 

 half an inch long, entire. Leaves from 2\ to 5 inches in diameter, resembling those of a Grape, 

 but with the deep sinuses very narrow, and the lobes equal, glabrous, except a little pubescence 

 on the veins beneath, very sharply and somewhat incisely doubly serrate. Petioles 9 to 18 lines 

 long, stout. Flowers an inch and a half in diameter when fully expanded. Fruit unknown. 

 This is surely distinct from the last, and apparently from any described species. 



Rubus coptophyllus (n. sp.): frutescens, mox glaber ; ramis gracilibus aculeis sparsis rectis 

 arinatis ; foliis subcordatis profunde 3— 5-fidis tenuibus, lobis ovato-lanceolatis sensim acuminatis 

 incisis crebre argute serratis, terminali productiore nunc trifido, lateralibus parvis, costis pilosulis ; 

 petiolis gracillimis leviter aculeolatis ; stipulis perulatis deciduis ; pedunculis solitariis unifloris 

 calycis glabriusculi segmenta lanceolata acuminata subasquantibus ; petalis albis ovalibus calyce 

 longioribus. — Yokohama, on hill-sides. Branches slender. Petioles about an inch, and the 

 leaves mostly an inch and a half long. The latter are very smooth and glabrous except the 

 veins, which, when young, are beset with slender fine hairs, as are the petioles ; the lobes are 

 slender, very sharp-pointed, and very strongly and sharply toothed and incised. Petals about 

 half an inch long, at first obovate, at length oblong. The flowers are solitary from lateral buds, 

 accompanied by two or three leaves. This elegant species should be compared with Blume's 

 R. pubinervis, which is very incompletely described. 



Rosa multiflora, Tlmnb.; and fragments of one or two other species. 



Rhaphiolepis Japonica, Sieb. <& Zucc. Fl. Jap. 1, p. 162, t. 85. Simoda. Flowering speci- 

 mens only. 



Ctdonia Japonica, Pers. Pyrus Japonica, Thunb. In hedges and along roadsides, Yokohama 

 and Hakodadi. One of the numerous ornamental shrubs in cultivation for which we are indebted 

 to Japan. 



Pyrus Malus, Linn. Hakodadi. Doubtless cultivated for its fruit. 



Pyrus spectabilis, Ait. P. baccata, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 207. Hakodadi and Simoda. 



Stransvaisia digyna, Sieb & Zucc. Fam. Nat. Fl. Jap. p. 21. Crataegus villosa, Thunb. 

 Simoda. Smoother and smaller-leaved specimens than usual, but plainly Thumberg's plant. 

 There are sometimes three styles. In the young fruit the pericarp appears to become adherent 

 to the fleshy calyx-tube. Perhaps it is as near Photinia (to which Debandolle referred it) as to 

 Stransvaisia. 



Saxifraga sarmentosa, Linn. Simoda. Long a well-known plant in cultivation. 



Ghrysosplenium oppositifolium, Linn. Hakodadi. Thunberg gives C. alternifolium as a 

 Japanese plant, but the present species has not before been mentioned. 



