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body and closed the orifice of the calear by its basal portion, 

 minmely puberulous beneath, about -4? mm. long); side lobes 

 acinate to the column, erect, thin, depressed-deltoid; rnidlobe 

 much larger, carnose, rhombic, slightly puberulous on lateral 

 margins, beakedly produced at the apex with an eroso-truncatc 

 ti}), about 6mm. broad; disk very minutely puberulous and 

 concave in centre; calear shortly conical, pointed backward, 

 obtuse at the end, thickish-walled, one-celled, about 3Jmm. long. 

 Column short, thick, footless, semiterete, wingless, yellowish, 

 about 5mm. long; clinandrium truncate, transversely elliptical, 

 puberulous on the dorsal margin, provided with two erect cor- 

 nicles at the corners in front (cornicles slightly incurved, puberu- 

 lous and fulvous); rostellum shortly produced; operculum 

 obliquely short-conical, imperfectly 2-locular, very shallowly 

 grooved in the back and very broadly so in front, shortly pro- 

 jected on the front margin, j^ellowish and shaded with brownish 

 colour below, 3mm. across; stigma orbicular, placed under the 

 rostellum, concave, perpendicular. Pollinia 2, ellipsoid-globose, 

 somewhat compressed, yellow, waxy, each divided into 2 un- 

 equal masses, 1mm. and a little more long; stipe slightly longer 

 than the pollinia, membranaceous, white, spathulate, revolute; 

 gland vertical, oblong, bifid at one end and rounded-obtuse at 

 the other end, nearly 1 mm. long. Ovary straight, but often 

 somewhat curved above, narrow, 3-angulate, sulcate, glabrous, 

 spreading, white, about 2-2^ cm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Nyumen-ran. 



Hah. Prov. Musashi: Tokyo, cultivated from Luchu (T. 

 Makinol) 



This differs from the type, merely by the narrower labellum. 



Symplocos lucida (Thunb.) Sieb. ct Zucc. Fl. Jap. (1835) 

 ]>. 55, tab. 24, excl. syn. Myrtus lacvis Thunb., non Wall. 



Lauras lucida Thunb. PI. Jap. (1784) p. 174; Willd. Sp. 

 PI. II. (1701)) p. 484; Pers. Syn. PI. P (1805) p. 450; Spreng. 

 Sysl. Veg. II. (1825) p. 2(H). 



Hopea lucida Thunb. Ic. PI. Jap. Dccas 2, tab. 4. 



