136 ART. I. B. HAYATA *. 



DisTEiB. Kiangsu ; Loo-choo islands. 



Viburnum taitœnse Hayata sp. nov. Eamuli graciles, purpnreo- 

 rubescentes, longitudinaliter rugulosi, fasco-tomentosi, lenticellis 

 rubescentibus elevatis notati, teretes, remote foliati. Folia op- 

 posita, oblongo-lanceolata, vel oblongo-elliptica, 9 cm. longa, 3 cm. 

 lata, apice acuminata, basi acuta, margine serrulata, serrulis 

 rotundato-mucronatis, pinninervia, venis lateralibus primariis 5-6, 

 arcuatis, costis et venis supra impressis, venulis tenuiter reticulato- 

 impressis, subtus costis et venis prominentibus, venulis tenuissimis 

 cbartaceo-coriacea, utrinque glaberrima subtus pallidiora, petiolis 

 1 J cm. longis supra late sulcatis, rubescentibus. Flores corymbosi, 

 corymbis terminalibus 3 cm. longis, totiusque latis, ramosis fulvo- 

 tomentosis, pilis densis brevissimisque, bracteis angustis acutis 

 2-3 mm, longis, pedicellis brevibus cum calycibus articulatis. Acri- 

 bus ad apicem pedicellorum solitariis vel geminis, bracteolis 

 2-3-congestis, basin calycis amplectantibus, elongato-angularibus 

 acutis 1-2 mm. longis ciliolatis. Flores cire. 1 cm, longi, tubulosi. 

 Calyx tubuloso-campanulatus, extus pubescens, tubo 2 mm. longo, 

 limbo campanulato, intus glabro, leviter 5-lobato, lobis brevibus, 

 obtuso-triangularibus § mm. longis obtusis, margine ciliolatis. 

 Corolla tubuliformis, superne leviter ampliata, 9 mm. longa, tubo 

 5 mm. longo, limbo 5-lobato, lobis breve rotundatis, 2 mm. longis. 

 Stamina 5, ad faucem coroUae affixa, filamentis brevibus 1 mm. 

 longis, antheris oblongis, 1 mm. longis. Ovarium inferius 

 1-loculare, stylo simplici, incrassato, circ. 2 mm. longo, basigradatim 

 leviter dilatato, apice 3-lobato. 



Hab, Taitö : Daishinzan, leg. T. Kawakami et U. Moei, Jan. 

 1908, (No. 4546). 



Near Viburnum erubescens Wall,, but differs from it in having 



