60 cklastbinEjE. 



Cassine Linn. 



Cassine illiciifolia Hayata sp. nov. (Tab. XI.) Fmtex? Rami et 

 ramuli subgraciles, longitiidinaliter rugulosi, lenticellati, ramnlis ultimis (cortice 

 subfusco-nibeseenti) glabris longitudinaliter subalatis sulcato-rugulosis cicatrici- 

 bus foliorum semi-oblongis notatis. FoKa opposita ovata obovato-lanceolata, 

 apice acuta acuminata, ad summum obtusa, basi cuneata, acuminata, 

 gradatim ad petiolum abeuntia, circ. 7 cm. longa 2^-3 cm. lata chartacea vel 

 tenuiter coriacea vel membranaceo-coriacea, in exsiccato supra pallida, nitida, 

 subtus albo-pallidissima, costis supra distincte gi'aciliter elevatis subtus 

 planis non distinctis, venis lateralibus primariis tenuissimis distinctis utroque 

 latere 7-8 subrectis angulo 40°-50° a costa egressis subtus non distinctis, 

 margins integerrima, petiolis tV~P'^o laminam sequantibus subalatis subplicatis 7 

 mm. longis glabris. Floras breve cymosi vel solitarii, cymis axiUaribus dicho- 

 tome ramosis paucifloratis, pediceUis 3 mm. longis apice 2-bracteatis, bracteis 

 rotundato-triangularibus 1 mm. longis subacutis margine rubro-denticulatis. 

 Calyx obconicus, lobis 4 decussatim imbricatis late rotundatis 1 mm. longis 

 2 mm. latis, margine fimbriato-albo- vel -rubro-ciHatis pagine glabris. Petala 

 4 calycis lobis alterna, ad faucem calycis affixa ovato-oblonga 2 mm. longa 

 1-^ mm. lata crassiuscula apice obtusa denticulata exteriore reflexa, basi con- 

 tracta J mm. lata, latere margine Integra, intus convexa extus concava. 

 Stamina 4, ad faucem calycis aflfixa, filamentis validiusculis rectis, 

 antheris reniformibus versatiKbus introrsum dehiscentibus. Discus sub- 

 campanulatus calycis tubo adnatus, apice 4-lobatus, lobis liberis cum stamine 

 alternis late liguLiformibus f mm. latis -J mm. longis. Kudimentum ovarii (vel 

 ovarium ?) subconicum brevissimum 2-loculare, loculis 1-ovulatis, stylo breve 

 colunmari cum ovariis 1^ mm. longo tenuiter 4-sulcato. Capsula obovoideo- 

 cylindrica 13 mm. longa 5 mm. lata, pericarpio coriaceo, 1-sperma. Semina 

 obovoidea 12 mm. longa, testa rubra. 



Otherodendron Uliciifdium* Hayata in Sched. (Herb. Taihoku Museum.) 



* The genus Otherodendron Makino, to which the present plant -with the following two species 

 was provisionally referred, is separated from Cassine Ldjn. in having a dehiscent capsule. The 

 fruit of the former has very similar structure as that of the latter which has sometimes 1 or 2 

 seeds within a hard coriaceous pericarp. 



