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with a pale under surface, gracile rachis of the female inflores- 

 cence, globular acorn, inner surface of the bark uneven with 

 vertical ridges which fit on grooves on the wood, and wood 

 inferior in durability. 



var. pusilla. (Bl.) Makino. 



Quercus cuspidata var. ft. pusilla Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 

 I. p. 288. 



Pasania cuspidata /?. Sieboldii forma pusilla Makino, 1. c. 

 p. 142. 



Nom. Jap. Hime-jii (T. Makino). 



Hah. Japan, cultivated. 



var. rotundifolia Makino. 



Pasania cuspidata ft. Sieboldii forma rotundifolia Makino, 

 1. c. p. 142. 



Nom. Jap. Bnmeirinka. 



Hah. Japan, cultivated. 



Cissus Yoshimurai Makino, sp. nov. 



Whole plant glabrous, cirrhiferous, cirrhus dichotomous 

 above ; stem scandent, verruculose, slightly prominent at the 

 nodes ; branches slender, loosely ramulose, flexuous, striate. 

 Leaves alternate, pedate with 5-leaflets, long-petiolate, membra- 

 naceous, green above, slightly paler beneath ; leaflets petiolulate, 

 ovato-lanceolate, oblong-ovate, or oblong, shortly acuminate 

 at the apex, obtuse or acute at the base, coarselj^ depressed- 

 crenate with a mucronate tip, with loosely arranged veins and 

 anastomotic veinlets ; central leaflet larger and attaining about 

 9cm. long, 4cm. broad, the petiolule longer and attains about 

 3 Jem. in length ; lateral leaflets oblique at the base. C} r me 

 long-ped uncled, axillary or sometimes leaf- opposite, divaricately 

 divided into loose pedicels. Berries one to few to an inflores- 

 cence, pedicellate, sphaerical, smooth, succulent, purplish-red then 

 black when fully matured, about |-1^ cm. across. Seeds 1—4, 

 with a crustaceous thin testa, compressed-triquetrous with sub- 

 alate and minutely eroso-muricate lateral edges and acute entire 

 ventral edge, broad-ovate, acutish at the apex, subcordate at 



