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Arborese v. arbores rarius frutices dioicaj. Genimaj magna? squamis 

 imbricatis vestita?. Folia alterna, saspe tomentosa, penninervia, bienuia. 

 Infloreseentias in axillis ramorum homotinorum axillares solitarise vel 

 geminse pedunculatse mnbellatse, cum squamis magnis imbricatis umbellas 

 involucratim obtectis. Flores masculi : perigonium 6-fidum ; stamina 9 

 triserialia; anthera? 4-locellatse, locellis superioribus omnibus introrsis, 

 inferioribus lateralibus; filamenta staminum intimum lateral! glanduli- 

 fera ; pistillum abortivum. Flores f ajminei : perigonium 6-fidum ; stami- 

 -nodia filiformia 9; pistillum fertile; stigma 2—3 fidum vel peltatum. 

 Bacca basi cupula perigonii persistente aucta obtecta, pedicello in- 

 crassato. 



Species ultra 50 in Asia tropica et subtropica incola. quarum uniea in 

 Corea indigena est. 



8. Fiwa japonica (Thunberg) J. F. Gmelin. 

 (Tabula nostra VII). 



Fiwa japonica (Thunberg) J. F. Gmelin, Syst. Nat. II pt. 2, 345 



(1791) ; Nakai in Asahina, Journ. Jap. Bot. XIV no. 3, 184 (1938). 



Syn. Tomex japonica Thunberg, Nov. Geu. PI. Ill, 65 (1783), Fl. Jap. 



190 (1784) ; Murray, Syst, Veget. ed. 14, 441 (1784) ; Vitman, 



Summa PL III, 157 (1789); Persoon, Syst. Veget. 473 (1797); 



Willdenow, Sp. PI. II pars 2, 839 (1799) ; Thunberg, Icon. PI. 



Jap. Ill, t. 7 (1801) ; Poiret in Lamarck, Bncyclop. VII, 696 



(1806) ; Rafinesque, Sylv. Tellur. 166 (1838). 



Litsma japonica Jussieu in Bull. Soc. Philom. Pai-is III, 73 (1801) ; 



Persoon, Syn. PL II pars 1, 4 (1806) ; Matumura, Nippon 



Syokubutumeii 112 (1884). 



Litsea japonica Miebel, Hist. Nat. Gen. & Partic. PL XI, 151(1805), 



escl. syn. Hexantluis umbellatus, PL Chinensis et Cochin- 



chinensis; Jussieu in Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. VI, 212(1805); 



Poiret, Suppl. Ill, 480 (1813) ; Hemsley in Journ. Linn. Soc. 



XXVI, 382 (1891) ; Matumura, Catal. PL Herb. Imp. Univ. 166 



(1886), Syokubutu Mei-I 172(1895); Palibin in Acta Hort. 



