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Drupa in syncarpiura carnosum areolato-tuberculatuin confluens. 

 Bractete sub anthesin persistentes. Stigmata truncata. Testa seminum 

 coriacea. Species in Asia orientali incolas. 



Cynoxylon Sect. Benthamia Subsect. Japonicae Nakai, Subsect. 

 nor. 



Folia annua. Calycis limbus truncatus cupularis. Species unica ! 



3. Cynoxylon japonica Nakai. 



Cynoxylon japonica Nakai, comb. nov. 



Syn Cornus ? japonica A. P. de Candolle, Prodr. IV. p. 273 (1830). 



Cornus japonica (non Thunberg) G. Don, Gen, Hist. Dicbl. PL III. 

 p. 400 (1834). 



Benthamia japonica Siebold & Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. I. pt. 2. p. 38, 

 t. 16 (1836)-Spach, Hist. Nat. Veg. VIII. p. 109 (1839)-Miquel in 

 Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. II. p. 159 (1865); Prol. p. 96 (1866)- 

 Nakai, Chosen-shokubutsu I. p. 426, fig. 532 (1914). 



Cornns Kovsa Buerger, herb, ex Miquel, 1. c. pro sjm.-Franchet & 

 Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 196 (1875)-Sargent, Forest Fl. Jap. p. 

 47 (1894)-Palibin in Acta Hort. Petrop. XVIII. p. 101 (1898)-Rehder 

 in Bailey, Cyclop. Americ. Hort. I. p. 379 (1900)-Harms in Engler, 

 Bot, Jahrb. XXIX. p. 506 (1901)-Yabe in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XVIII. p. 

 30 (1904)-Schneider, Illus. Handb. II. p. 454, fig. 301, n-g. 302. g. 

 (1909)-Shirasawa, Icon. II. t. 59, fig. 1-12 (lSlO)-Waugerin in Engler, 

 Pflanzenr. IV. no 229. p. 88 (1910)-Matsumura, Ind. PL Jap. II. pt, 

 2, p. 446 (1912)-Kehder in Bailey, Stand. Cyclop. II. p. 855 (1914)- 

 Nakai, Veg. Isl. Quelpaert p. 70, n. 989 (1914); Veg. Isl. Wangto p. 

 12 (1914)-Bean, Trees & Shrubs Brit. Isles I. p. 389. fig. (1914); in 

 Kew Bull. (1915), p. 179, fig.-Nakai, Veg. mt. Chirisan p. 41 (1915)- 

 Ptehder in Sargent, PL Wils. III. p. 578 (1916)-Bean in Bot. Mag. 

 CXLVI, t. 8S33 (1920)-Makino & Nemoto, Fl. Jap. p. 436 (1925). 



Benthamia Kousa Nakai in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXIII. p. 41 (1909). 



Arborea. Cortex irregulariter fissus. Lignum durum. Gemma? 

 lanceolate, squamis oppositis oblongo-ovatis adpresse pilosis obtectaj. 

 Rami primo adpresse pilosi sed adulter um ab initio glabri divaricati 



