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linear-oblong, about 1mm. long. Disk-scales few, erect, linear, 

 about as long as the pistil. Pistil included, about 3mm. 

 long ; ovary obovoid, attenuatedly narrowed below into a 

 stipe at the base, adpressedly sericeous ; style very short ; 

 stigma large, capitate. Fruit viridescent, included in marces- 

 cent perianth, ovoid-fusiform, very shortly stipitate, adpressed- 

 pubescent, about 5mm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Shakunan-gampi (nov.), Shakunan (vernacular). 



Hab. Prov. Osumi : Mt. Miyanoura-dake in Isl. Yaku-shima 

 (Yushun Kudo I July 1908). 



A very singular species having the long ' kurztriebe.' 



Wikstroemia (Diplomorpha) pauciflora Franch. et Sav. 

 Enum. PL Jap. I. (1875), p. 406. 



Wikstroemia canescens var. pauciflora Franch. et Sav. 1. c. 

 IT. (1879), p. 481. 



Wikstroemia Ganpi var. pauciflora Maxim, in Mel. Biol. 

 XH. p. 541. (1886). 



A deciduous shrub, attaining about 2m. or more in height ; 

 stem and branches terete, glabrous, with a fulvo-lateritious 

 and tenacious bark ; branches slender and virgate ; branchlets 

 gracile, adpressed-pubescent. Leaves all alternate, distichous, 

 laxly arranged, shortly petiolate, ovate or narrowly ovate, 

 acute or short-acuminate, obtuse or acute at the base, char- 

 taceous, green and thinly adpressed-pubescent above, paler and 

 adpressed-pubescent (pubes denser on midrib and veins) be- 

 neath, lJ-Slcm, long, |— 3 J cm. broad ; midrib prominent 

 beneath ; veins 4-7 on each side, erect-patent ; veinlets fine and 

 inconspicuous ; petiole pubescent, 2-4 mm. long. Racemes 

 soon spiciform with a gracile adpressed-sericeo-pubescent and 

 ebracteate rachis, several-submany-flowered, terminal and ax- 

 illary on the erect-patent or spreading adpressed-pubescent 

 short ultimate branchlets and forming a short and loose 

 paniculate cluster at the top of branchlets mixed with ovate to 

 lanceolate smaller leaves. Flowers small, about 9mm. long, 

 extremely shortly pedicellate, yellow ! ; pedicel obliquely erect, 

 lesser than 1mm. in length. Perianth adpressed-sericeo-pubes- 



