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their weight) at the top of branchlets mixed with smaller 

 oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate leaves. Flowers small, nume- 

 rous, about 8-9mm. long, extremely shortly pedicellate, yellow!; 

 pedicels sparse, obliquely erect, lesser than 1mm. in length. 

 Perianth adpressed-sericeo- pubescent; tube narrowly cylindrical, 

 8-nerved, about l'itnm. across ; limb 4mm. in diameter, lobes 

 ovato-oval, obtuse, thickish. Stamens 8, the upper 4 inserted 

 under the throat with anthers slightly protruded upon it, the 

 lower 4 above the middle ; filament shorter than the anther, fili- 

 form ; anther oblong, 1mm. long. Disk-scale oblong or lato- 

 linear, 2-3-laciniate, about § as long as the pistil. Pistil about 

 3mm. long, included ; ovary clavato-obovate, attenuated below 

 into a stipe, adpressed-sericeous ; style very short; stigma large, 

 capitate. Fruit included in the marcescent perianth, fusiform, 

 stipitate, green, thinly adpressed-pubescent. 



Nom. Jap. Shima-sakuragampi (nov.), Sakura-gatnpi (ver- 

 nacular). 



Hab. Prov. Osumi: Miyanoura in Isl. Yaku-shima (T. Maki- 

 no ! Sept. 1909). 



This grows on side by rivulets. It differs from the type 

 by having the more numerously flowered spikes, larger thicker 

 and less hairy leaves 



Spiraea Yazawai Makino, sp. nov. 



A deciduous shrub ; branches gracile, flexuous, striate, gla- 

 brous, fulvous. Leaves, alternate, petiolate, ovate, subacute 

 or short-acuminate at the apex, obtuse and slightly decurrent 

 to the petiole at the base, inciso-serrate, membranaceous, green 

 and glabrous above, subglaucous and white-pubescent towards 

 the axils of veins beneath, thinly ciliated on margin, 7- 20mm. 

 long, 5-15mm. broad; veins loose, 3-5 on each side, delicate* 

 veinlets very fine and inconspicuous ; petiole gracile, very thin- 

 ly pubescent, 2-5mm. long. Corymb umbellate, terminating 

 the branchlets of this year, about 8-flowered, ebracteate ; 

 pedicels gracile, green, glabrous, about 1 Jem. long ; flowering 

 branchlets gracile, green, short, foliiferous below. Calyx-tube 

 depressed-cyathiform, sericeo-pubesceut within, glabrous and 



