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longoovati compress! chartacei. Semina obovatooblonga 

 tenuiter multistriata fusca, 0,75 mm., striis muricel- 

 latis. Embryo lutescens, albumen nullum. 



Specc. kansuensia florere incipientia petalis ovatis 

 acuminatis gaudent. 



27. S, Alfredi Hance in Journ. bot. VIII, 1870, 7. 

 S, lineare 7. florihundum Miq. Prol. 89. 8. snUile a. 

 obovatum Fr. S a v. Enum. II, 366. Maruba no wza^- 

 nen gusaySoohokf.YUlj 51,fig. sinistra, 52. Phonzo 

 zoufou 36, 12. 



China: prov. Canton (Hance!), Fokien (de Grijs! 

 in herb. Hance n. 6701), Formosa: Soong kong 

 (Wright!), Tamsuy (Oldham! n. 112); archipel. Zb- 

 reano (Wilfordl); Japonia: non procul a Nagasaki ad 

 latera rupestria denudata, sat frequens (ipse), Simoda 

 (Yolkin), Yokohama in pratis ad vias (ipse), Tsu-sima 

 (Wilford!). 



Habitus S. ternati Michx (americani) , sed flores 

 lutei. Et affinitas hujus speciei et sequentis potius cum 

 americanis, quam cum europaeis v. asiaticis. 



Modus Crescendi S. japonici, et statura eadem. Sed 

 folia, praesertim innovationum, saepe opposita patula, 

 internodia aequantia v. fere duplo superantia, plana, 

 superne, praeter apicem, in vivo leviter sulcata, spa- 

 thulata V. obovata v. spathulatolanceolata, basi atte- 

 nuata sessilia et ipsa basi obtusa membranacea soluta, 

 10:3 — 25:7 mm. magna, v. in formosanis 30 : 10 

 mm., in chinensihus vulgo latiora, in japonicis angu- 

 stiora. Cyma S. japonici, sed bracteae oblongo- v. 

 rite ellipticae, cito diminutae, ultimae flores vix supe- 

 rantes. Flores iidem, sed passim majores, diam. usque 

 15 mm. Sepala saepe inaequalia, alia obovata alia 



