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cent; tube narrowly cylindrical, 8-nerved ; limb much shorter 

 than the tube, about 2mm. long, about 5mm. in diameter, gla- 

 brous internally, lobes 4, ovato-elliptical, obtuse, the outer 2 a 

 little longer. Stamens 8, the upper 4 inserted under the throat 

 and the anthers protruding from it ; the lower 4 inserted far 

 above the middle ; filament very short, filiform; anther oblong or 

 narrowly oblong, nearly 9mm. long. Disk-scale § as long as 

 the pistil or nearly equalling the ovary in length, oblong to 

 oblong-linear, few-laciniate. Pistil included, about 3mm. long; 

 ovary obovoid, long-attenuated below into a stipe, adpressed- 

 sericeous ; style short, gracile ; stigma stout, capitate. Fruit 

 included in the marcescent perianth, fusiform, thinly adpressed- 

 pubescent. 



Nom. Jap. Sakura-gampi, Hime-gampL 



Hah. Prov. Sagami : Hakone (T. Makino ! Aug. 1904). 



A good species ! obviously differing from Wikstroemia Gatipi 

 Maxim, and W. canescens Meisn. The barks of this species 

 and W. sikokiana Franch. et Sav. are used for making a paper 

 named Gampi-shi (Gampi-Paper). 



var. yakushimensis Makino, var. nov. 



A deciduous shrub, attaining about 2m. in height, erect, 

 ramose ; bark brick-coloured, tenaceous, smooth, glabrous ; 

 branches terete ; branchlets of this year slender, viridescent and 

 often shaded with a brick-colour below, thinly adpressed- 

 pubescent. Leaves all alternate, distichous, shortly petiolate, 

 oval-ovate, ovate, or ovato-lanceolate, but often lanceolate in 

 the superior ones, acuminate with an obtuse point, obtuse or 

 acute at the base, entire, chartaceo subcoriaceous, green above, 

 paler beneath, very thinly adpressed-pubescent on both surfaces, 

 2J-7cm. long, l-4cm. broad ; midrib prominent beneath ; veins 

 about 6-8 on each side, delicate, erect-patent ; veinlets anasto- 

 mosing beneath ; petiole pubescent with white pubes, 4-6mm. 

 long. Racemes soon spiciform with a gracile adpressed sericeo- 

 pubescent and ebracteate rachis, many-flowered, terminal and 

 axillary on the erect-patent adpressed-sericeo-pubescent short 

 ultimate branchlets and forming a short and dense paniculate 

 cluster (3-13cm. long, 2-15cm. across, and often nodding by 



