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thinly chartaceoiis or coriaceous, very glabrous on the both surfaces, lower 

 surface pale, petioles IJ cm., long broadly sulcate on the upper, side rubescent. 

 Flowers in corymbs, corymbs terminal, 3 cm. long as broad, branches 

 yellowish-brown tomentose, hairs short and dense, bracts narrowly acute, 2-3 

 mm. long, pedicels short, articulate with the calyx, 1-2 flowered on the apex 

 of the pedicels, bracteoles 2-3-congested, embrasing the base of the calyx, 

 elongate ajxgular acute ciliate. Flowers about 1 cm long tubulose. Calyx 

 tubuloso-campanulate, pubescent on the outer side, tube 2 mm. long, limb 

 campanulate glabrous on the inner side, slightly 5-lobed, lobes short, obtuse- 

 triangular, f mm. long, obtuse at the apex, ciliate on the margin. Corolla 

 tubiformed, slightly ampliate on the upper part, 9 mm. long, tube 5 mm. 

 long, limb 5-lobed, lobes shortly rounded, 2 mm. long. Stamens 5, affixed 

 on the throat of the corolla, filaments short, 1 mm. long, anthers oblong, 1 

 mm. long. Ovary inferior, 1-celled, style simple, incrassate, nearly 2 mm. 

 long gradually and slightly dilated at the base, 3-lobed on the apex. 



Hab. Taito : Daishinzan. 



Near Viburtium eriAescens Wall., but differs from it in having denser 

 and shorter cymes, nan-ower leaves, and calyx densely covered with 

 stellate hairs. V. erubescens has a nearly glabrous calyx, much broader 

 leaves, and more elongated cymes. 



Viburnum taiwanianum Hayata Mater. Fl. Formos. p. 137. 

 Branches gray-brown, upwards beset with short stellate hairs. Leaves 

 deciduous, opposi-te, approximately arranged towards the apex of the branches, 

 petiolate, exstipulate, ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 15 cm. long, 5^ cm. 

 broad, acuminate at the apex (acuminate part 2-3 cm. long), rounded at 

 the base, glabrous, nigiicant in dried specimens, pale on the low«r surface 

 and beset with short stellate hairs, margin minutely denticulate or nearly 

 entire; primary veins ascending and secondary ones transverse, petioles 2 cm. 

 long. Cymes terminal on branches, peduncles 4 cm. long, branches verticil- 

 late, bracts linear, 4 mm. long, bracteoles subulate. Calyx-tube cylindrical, 

 2 mm. long, margin shortly campanulate, 1 mm. long, .2-lobed, lobes triangular 

 and obtuse, | mm. broad. Corolla tubiformed 3^ mm; long, slightly contracted 



