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late, obtuse or acutish, entire, thickish and concave below, 

 glabrous within, adpressed-pubescent externally, 1J mm. long. 

 Petal sometimes 1 developed, alternate to or sometimes opposite 

 with the sepals and often smaller or much so than them, free, 

 sometimes entirely or partly connate to the sepal, pubescent 

 dorsally, or glabrous, deciduous. Staminodes none. Ovary 

 solitary, somewhat oblique in shape, ovoid, gibbous on the dorsal 

 side, straight on the ventral edge, erect, sessile, glabrous, nigres- 

 cent when dried, nearly 1 mm. long, 1-celled and 2-ovuled ; style 

 very short, stout, often arcuate outwards, glabrous, shorter 

 than the ovary, erect from the top of the ventral edge, trifid, 

 the stigmatiferous branches radiately patent-recurved, gracile, 

 pointed ; ovules 1 developed and other abortive, linear-ovate, 

 tapering above, slightly curved. Fruit (young) green but 

 black when dry, oval-orbicular, slightly compressed laterally, 

 with a minute lateral short style near its base, even in surface, 

 very scantily pilosulate with patent hairs ; endcarp hard, com- 

 pressed, rounded or obo void-rounded, tuberculato-muricate dor- 

 sally, flatly subexcavate on both sides with tuberculato-muricate 

 horseshoe-shaped border. 



Nom. Jap. Miyakojima-tsudzurafudzi (Y. Tashiro). 



Prov. Yayeyama Archipelago: Isl. Miyako (Yasusada 

 Tashiro I July 1887); Prov. Satsuma: Near Kagoshima (B. Fu- 

 kazawal 1909; Zentaro Tashiro I Aug. 1910; Y. Nakano I Aug. 

 1910); T. Makinol Aug. 1910; Prov. Iki (K. Chibal Aug. 

 1910). 



This seems to come near Cissampelos Pareira Linn., from 

 which it differs, however, by having the minute bracts, petals 

 mostly alternate to the sepals in the female flower, glabrous 

 ovary, subglabrous fruits, and the invariably cordate leaves, etc. 



Cacalia kiusiana Makino, sp. nov. 



Perennial attaining about 8 decim. in height. Stem erect, 

 terete and substriate, flexuous, thinly adpressedly arachnoid- 

 pubescent and pubes denser near the base of the petioles in the 

 nodes. Leaves alternate, long-petiolate but shorter so in the 

 superior ones, subreniform in outline, cordate at the base, 5-sub- 



