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Syn. Auhuba Thunberg, PI. Jap. p. XLI & 64 (1784)-Koch, 

 Dendrol. I. p. 695 (1S69). 



Eubasis Salisbury, Prodr. p. 68 (1796). 



Frutex, exstipullatus ; folia opposita simplicia petiolata biennia 

 serrata. Inflorescentia decussato-paniculata braeteata, rnascula ampla, 

 fosminea minor. Flores dioici cum pedicellis articulati. Flores ^ ; 

 calyx parvus 4-dentatus ; petala 4 valvata, ovata vel lanceolata; stamina 

 4, filamenta brevia, antherae oblonga? vel subrotundatse; discus carnosus ; 

 ovarium rudimentum. Flores ■£ ; calycis tubus obovoideus ovario 

 adnatus strigillosus vel glaber 4-dentatus; petala 4 reflexa ovata; 

 stamina 0; discus carnosus; stylus brevis, stigma obliquum; ovarium 

 1-loculare; ovulum 1 ab apice loculi suspensum. Drupa ellipsoidea 

 coccinea, Candida vel flava. Putamen oblongum 1-loculare 1-spermum. 

 Testa seminum membranaceum. Albumen carnosum. Embryo in 

 apice albuminis medianus; cotyledon minimus; radicula supera. 



Species 3, una in Himalaya, una in Cbina & Formosa, una in 

 Japonia & Korea endemicse. 



1. Aucuba japonica Thunberg (Tabula nostra XVII). 



Aucuba japonica Thunberg, Dissert. III. p. 62 (17S3); in Nova 

 Acta Reg. Soc. Sci. Upsal. IV. p. 30, nom. nud. & p. 37 (1783)- 

 Banks, Icon. t. 6 (1791)-Du Mont Courset, Bot. Cult. ed. 1. III. p. 618 

 (1802)-A. P. de Candolle, Prodr. IV. p. 274 (lSSO)-Loudon, Arb. & 

 Frutic. Brit. II. p. 1026 (1838)-Spach, Hist. Nat. Veg. VIII. p. 88 

 (1839)-Kirchner, Arb. Muse. p. 424 (1864)-Regel in Gartenrl. XIII. p. 

 38 (1S64)-J. D. Hooker in Curtis ' Bot. Mag. XCI. t. 5512 (1865)- 

 Miquel in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. II. pt, 1. p. 160 (1865); Prol. 

 Fl. Jap. p. 92 (1866).-Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 197 

 (1875)-Palibin in Acta Hort. Petrop. XVII. p. 102 (1898)-Nakai in 

 Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXIII. p. 92 (1909)-Wangerin in Engler, Pflanze- 

 nreichlV. no. 229 p. 38 (1910)-Matsumura, Inch PL Jap. I. pt. 2. p. 445 

 (1912), pro parte-Nakai, Chosen-shokubutsu I. p. 430, fig. 536 (1914); 

 Veg. Isl. Quelpaert. p. 70, no. 988 (1914); Veg. Dagelet Isl. p. 23, no. 

 273 (1919)-Mulfood in Americ. Forest. XXVIII. p. 103, fig. (1922). 



