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Hab. Prov. Satsuma : Kiire-mura in Ibusuki-gori (S. Yatna- 

 gttchi! Oct. 25, Nov. 10 and 28, 1910). 



This species grows in the shady and humid ground in the 

 wood of Quercus cuspidata Thunb. and Pittosporutn Tobira 

 Ait., and is parasitic at the end of the roots of the latter plant. 

 It resembles very closely that plant (B. Wrightii Makino, sp. 

 nov.) figured by Dr. Tokutaro Ito in the Journal of the Linnean 

 Society, vol. XXIV. tab. 5, fig. 7-8 (1887), which is one collected 

 by C. Wright in Riukiu Islands. My thanks are due to Mr. 



Seigo Yamaguchi, a teacher in the Elementary School in Kiire- 

 mura, prov. Satsuma, who kindly sent me a number of the 

 valuable living materials of this new and very interesting species. 



Acer capillipes Maxim in Mel. Biol. VI. p. 367 (1867), 

 et X. p. 597 ; Miq. in Archiv. Neerland. II. (1867), pp. 470, 477 j 

 Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 88 ; Pax in Engler's Bot. 

 Jahrb. VII. p. 246, et Acerac. in Engler's PA. -Reich, p. 67. 



A tree; branches terete, smooth, glabrous, green, but 

 castaneo-nigresccnt when dried. Leaves long-petiolate, gla- 



brous, 54obed, subtruncatc or truncato-subcordate at the base, 

 provided with a minute scale at the axil of veins beneath, 

 attaining about 14cm. long and broad ; those of the shoot 

 often elliptical- ovate, acuminate, subtrilobed ; petiole attaining 

 about 8cm. long. Raceme terminal, solitary, usually simple, 



cernuous ; rachis gracile, glabrous ; pedicels filiform, glabrous. 

 Flowers (male) many, about 6mm. across, glabrous. Sepals 5, 

 linear-oblong, oblong, or spathulato-oblong, cbtuse or subbifid 

 or sometimes subcrenate at the apex, shorter than the petals, 

 about 2mm. long. Petals 5, oblong or obovato- oblong, 



cuneate below, rounded at the apex, entire. Disk crenate. 

 Stamens 8, equal to the petals in height; filament subulato- 

 filiform ; anther elliptical, acutish at the apex and bifid at the 

 base. Fructiferous raceme pendent, attaining about 14cm. 



long, with numerous and densely disposed samaras ; rachis 

 gracile, glabrous ; pedicles filiform, glabrous, about 6— 10mm. 

 long. Samara small, glabrous ; loculi horizontal, elliptical, 

 delicately veined longitudinally, about 5-7mm. long, 4mm. 



