22 THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. [V oi. xxrv. Xo. 276. 



Vaccinium yakushimense Makino, sp. nov. 



A deciduous small shrub ; trunk erect, terete, smootish, avel- 

 laneo-isabel-coloured ; branches and branchlets green, glabrous, 

 smooth ; branchlets many, erect-patent, or sometimes divari- 

 cate, hardly flexuous. Leaves alternate, extremely shortly 

 petiolate, ovato-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, attenuatedly 

 acuminate at the apex, rounded-obtuse to acute at the base, 

 minutely incumbent-serrulate, chartaceous, green (often purple 

 on sun side) and pubescent on the midrib (nearly also so on veins) 

 above, paler and glabrous beneath, about 1J— 5 cm. long, f— 2J 

 cm. wide ; midrib slightly prominent beneath ; veins delicate, 

 about 5-9 on each side, erect-patent ; veinlets reticulated ; 

 petiole 1—2 mm. long, glabrous but pubescent in the front 

 furrow. Bud axillary, small, subulato-conical, straight, ad- 

 pressed, often purpurascent. Fruit solitary (in my specimens), 

 pediceled, obovoid-globose, about 6 mm. in diameter, glabrous, 

 smooth, not angulate, purplish-black when matured, suberect, 

 crowned with a short persistent calyx, disk concave and gla- 

 brous ; calyx-segments 5, erect, glabrous, depressedly subdeltoid - 

 semiorbicular, entire, subacute; pedicel strict, about 5— 7mm. 

 long, glabrous; peduncle short, about 3mm. long, erect, placed 

 in the leafless axil under the top of a branchlet, 



Nom. Jap. Akushiba-modoki (nov.). 



Hah, Prov* Osumi : Yaku-shima, mountains (T. Makino ! 

 Sept. 1909). 



This species has the general feature of Vaccinium japonicum 

 Miq., but the fruit is very different, and much like that of V. 

 hirtum Thunb. Flowers unknown at present. 



(To be continued.) 



