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green, glabrous, 6-15 mm. long. Flowers axillary or terminal, 

 solitary or geminate, sessile, 6-8 cm. in diameter, simple, white 

 and shaded with rose-colour. Sepals imbricated, collectively 

 wide-campanulate, greenish, adpressedly sericeo-pubescent ex- 

 ternally, deciduous ; lower ones smaller, coriaceous, semiorbic- 

 ular, tinged with brown ; middle ones orbiculate ; upper ones 

 larger, obovato-oval, subemarginate, whitish, thin and ciliated 

 on margin, often tinged with rose-colour and petaloid, the in- 

 nermost one attaining about 3 cm. long. Corolla wide- 

 infundibuliform, recurvo-patent above, connate into a short- 

 campanulate tube at the base, 5-6-petaled, deciduous ; segments 

 obovato-orbiculate, emarginate or rounded at the apex, very 

 shortly and broadly unguiculate at the base. Monadelphous 

 stamens erect, shorter than the corolla, yellowish, adherent to 

 the corolla-tube at the base ; the free portion of filaments 

 numerous and unequal in height, subulato-filiform, the inner 

 ones only connate at the base ; anther small, with yellow pol- 

 len, ovate, bifid at the base ; anther-cells then ferruginons ; con- 

 nective broad and pale. Style erect, equal to or somewhat ex- 

 ceeding the stamens in height, 3— 4 -fid at the top, narrow, 

 glabrous, greenish; ovary ovoid-globose; densely and adpressed- 

 ly sericeo-tomentose, 3-4-celled, thick- walled, ovules not many. 

 Flowers in Nov.-April. 



Nom. Jap. Hatsukari. 



Hah. Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, cultivated (T. Makino !). 



var. Wabiske Makino, var. nov. (Fig. IV.) 



A small tree ; branchlets narrow, terete, cinereous or cinereo- 

 isabel-coloured, glabrous, hardly flexuous. Leaves alternate, 

 distichous, petiolate, oblong or oblong-elliptical, subabruptly 

 attenuato- acuminate, acute at the base, acute-serrulate, cori- 

 aceous, glabrous, thining, deep-green above, light yellowish- 

 green and sparsely punctulate with minute fuscous dots beneath, 

 about 6-10Jcm. long, 2\— 4^ cm. broad; midrib prominent on 

 both sides, light green ; veins and main veinlets impressed 

 above in recent ; petiole subterete, flatish in front, green, 

 glabrous, 10-15 mm. long. Flowers small, terminal or axillary, 

 solitary or geminate, sessile, white, simple, about 4-5Jcm. in 



