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denser and shorter cymes, narrower 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 sp. nov. Eami cineraceo- 

 fuscentes, apice pilis stellatis brevissimis obtecti. Folia decidna, 

 opposita, secus apicem ramorum approximate disposita, petiolata, 

 exstipnlata, ovato-oblonga vel ovato-lanceolata, 15 cm. longa, 5 J cm. 

 lata, apice acuminata, acuminibus 2-3 cm. longis, basi rotundatis 

 supra glabra in exsiccato nigricantia, subtus palhdiora, pilis stellatis 

 brevissimis pubescentia, margine minute denticulata, vel subintegra, 

 venis primariis ascendentibus, venis secundariis transversis, petiolis 

 2 cm. longis. Cyma3 ad apicem ramorum terminales, pedunculis 

 4 cm. longis, ramis verticillatis, bracteis linearibus 4 mm. longis. 

 bracteolis subulatis. Calycis tubus cylindricus 2 mm. longus, limbus 

 breve campanulatus 1 mm. longus 2-lobatus, lobis triangularibus 

 obtusis 4 mm. latis. Corolla tubuhformis 3J mm. longa basi leviter 

 contracta apice 5-lobata, lobis rotundato-triangularibus apice 

 rotundatis if mm. latis vel latioribus, glabris. Stamina 5, basi corollae 

 affixa, 5i mm. longa, filamentis liberis. Stylus crassiusculus co- 

 nicus, 1 mm. longus. 



Hab. in monte Morrison, ad 6000 ped. alt., leg. T. Kawakami 

 et U. MoEi, Oct. 1900, (No. 1720) ; Tözan, in montibus Morrison 

 leg. G. Nakahara, Oct. 1906 ; Nantô : Shojôdaizan, leg. T. Kawa- 

 kami et U. Mori, (No. 1119); Taitö : Basshishö, leg. N. Konishi, 

 .luh. 1902, (No. 31) ; Randaizan, leg. U. Mori, (No. 7033). 



Near Viburnum tirceolatum Sieb, et Zucc, but differs from it 

 in having very obscurely toothed, or even entire, more acuminate 

 leaves, and in their venation. 



