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MAKINO -OBSERV. ON THE FLORA OF JAPAN. 



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diameter. Sepals greenish, 

 mbricated, collectively wide- 

 campanulate, adpressedly 

 sericeo-pubescent externally, 

 concave, deciduous ; lower 

 ones smaller, semiorbicular, 

 coriaceous ; middle ones or- 

 bicular, upper ones larger, 

 obovately oval or oval-or- 

 bicular, subemarginate, thin- 

 ly membranaceous and 

 ciliated on margin, attaining 

 about 15mm. long. Corolla 

 campanulato-infundibuliform, 

 shortly connate at the base, 

 5— 6-petaled, deciduous ; seg- 

 ments obovately oval or or- 

 biculate, emarginate, often 

 very shortly subunguiculate 

 at the base, the outer ones 

 shorter. Monadelphous sta- 

 mens short, erect, adnate to 

 the corolla-tube at the base, 



truncate at the top, sometimes corona-like, whitish ; the 

 free portion of filaments deficient ; anthers imperfect. Style 

 erect, exceeding the stamens in height, slender, glabrous, green- 

 ish, trifid at the top ; ovary shortly ovoid, glabrous or nearly 

 so from the degeneration of hairs, greenish, 3- celled, with iin-. 

 perfect ovules. Flowers in Nov.- April. 



Nom. Jap. Wabisuke. 



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



var. campanulata Makino, var. nov. (Fig. V.) 



A small tree ; branches numerous, glabrous, terete ; branch- 

 lets narrow, cinereo-isabel-coloured, terete, glabrous, subflex- 

 uous. Leaves small, alternate, distichous, petiolate, oblong to 

 oblong-lanceolate, attenuato-acuminate, cuneato-acute at the 

 base, acute-serrulate, coriaceous, shining, deep-green above, light 



Fig. IV. 



