Observations on the Flora of Japan 



(Continued from p. 22.) 



By 

 T. Maliino. 



Callicarpa Shirasawana Makino, sp. nov. 



Callicarpa mollis Shirasawa, Nippon-Shinrin-Jumoku-Dzufu, 

 II. (1908), tab. 70, fig. 20-27, non Sieb. et Zucc. 



A small deciduous shrub, ramose ; branches terete, umber ; 

 branchlets erect-patent, rather thinly (but denser towards the 

 top) adpressedly covered with stellate hairs; bud densely 

 covered with stellate hairs. Leaves petiolate, opposite, ob- 

 ovato-lanceolate, obovato-oblong, elliptical, but often ovato- 

 elliptical in the inferior ones, abruptly caudato-acuminate at the 

 apex, acute or obtuse at the base, serrate, chartaceous, shortly 

 thin-puberulent and minutely thin-granulato-glandular above, 

 sparingly stellato-hairy and minutely granulato-glandular 

 beneath, 2\— 11 cm. long, \\— 3} cm. broad; midrib prominent 

 beneath ; veins about 5—8 on each side, erect-patent, somewhat 

 arcuate upwards ; veinlets finely reticulated beneath ; petiole 

 rather thinly covered with stellate hairs, 4-11 mm. long. Cymes 

 axillary, small, much shorter than the leaves but exceeding 

 the petiole, many and densely flowered, peduncled ; peduncle 

 strict, usually longer than the petiole, densely or thinly covered 

 with stellate hairs, attaining about 10 mm. long in flower ; 

 branches and pedicels short, thinly covered with simple forked 

 and stellate patent hairs; bracts minute, linear, obtuse, ciliated, 

 deciduous, very rarey leafy and about 1 cm. long ; bracteoles 

 usually shorter than the pedicels. Flowers small, lilac; pedicel 

 shorter than the flower. Calyx short-campanulate, 4-fid with 

 obtuse sinuses, viridescent, thinly pubescent and ciliated with 

 simple forked and stellate patent hairs, dispersed with minute 

 granular glands, about 2 mm. long in flower, persistent and 

 slightly enlarged in fruit ; lobes deltoid, subobtuse. Corolla 

 exserted, scarcely longer than twice of the calyx, dispersed 



