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branchlets, patently ramose. Leaves petiolate, ovato-lanceo- 

 late, oblong-lanceolate, or lanceolate, attenuato-acuminate at 

 tbe apex, acute or obtuse or subcordate and often decurrent 

 to tbe petiole at tbe base, entire and subciliolated on margin, 

 usually undivided or sometimes bastately bilobate with obtuse 

 sinuses at tbe base, membranaceous, often very sparingly puber- 

 ulent above. Flowers smaller, whitish ; pedicels divaricate. 

 Calyx-segments semiorbiculate or depressed-semiorbiculate, some- 

 times subcuspidate at the apex. Corolla reflexed, virid-macu- 

 late at the base internally ; lobes lanceolate, or triangular- 

 lanceolate, pubescent on margin. Stamens erect, connivent, 

 yellow. Style exserted. Berry sphaerical, green but red when 

 matured. 



Nom. Jap. Yama-horoshi (nov.). 



Hab. Japan (K. Miyabel; Y. Tokubuchil ; J. Matsuwural; 

 J. Umemura ! ; T. Makino ! ; D. Nikail). 



This is found in mountain districts, and differs from var. 

 macrocarpum Maxim, by having the smaller leaves, whitish 

 flowers, and also having the globose fruit, as that of var. 

 lyratum (Thunb.) Sieb. et Zucc. Var. macrocarpum Maxim. 

 (Jap. Maruba-no-horoshi), which has the ellipsoid fruits and 

 violaceous flowers, differs from my variety, and it is closely al- 

 lied to the type of S. Dulcamara Linn. 



Eurya japonica Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 191, tab. 25. 



var. yakushimensis Makino, var. nov. 



A shrub or small tree, attaining about 4 m. in height ; 

 trunk terete, covered with stout lenticels, sooty, numerously 

 ramose ; branches griseo-isabel-coloured, glabrous ; brancblets 

 gracile, angulate glabrous. Leaves dense, small, alternate, dis- 

 tichous, erect-patent, very shortly petiolate, elliptical-lanceolate, 

 oblong-lanceolate, or lanceolate, often subfalcate, cuneate to- 

 wards the base, shortly attenuated and emarginate at the apex, 

 crenato-serrate, coriaceous, glabrous, turned into a yellow colour 

 when dried, 15-45mm. long, 5-llmm. wide, venation impressed 

 above ; veins erect-patent, several on each side. Flowers 

 minute, 1 to few-fasciculate, pedicellate. Fruit 1-3 to a leaf- 



