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Style included, slightly shorter than the corolla, pubescent with ascending 

 hairs ; stigmas 2, ample, ovato-orbiculate, very minutely papilloso-hairy on 

 margin, ^-1 mm. long and broad ; disk scarcely shorter than the calyx, 

 deeply 2-parted, lobes depressed-semiorbicular. Ovary depressed-globose, 

 1 mm. and a little more long, slightly wider than the corolla-tube, minutely 

 patent-pubescent, longitudinally 5-ribbed. Capsule (immature) about 1 Jmm. 

 long, depressed-obo void-globose, crowned with persistent calyx and disk, 

 minutely pubescent. 



Norn. Jap. Byukyu-inamoriso (T. Makino). 



Hob. Loochoo : Kunchan in Isl. Okinawa (H. Kurohva \ July 1894). 



This comes closely near by Ophiorrkiza Harrisiana Heyne. 



Antidesma Kuroiwai Makino sp. nov. 



A shrub ; branches subcastaneous, glabrate ; branchlets minutely pubes- 

 cent, pubes denser in the young part. Leaves dense, shortly petiolate, 

 elliptical, oblong-elliptical or obovato-elliptical, shortly produced at the apex 

 with a mucronato-obtuse or emarginate or rarely acute tip, rounded or obtuse 

 at the base, entire, chartaceous or chartaceo-coriaceous or chartaceo-membra- 

 naceous shining above, glabrous on both surfaces but puberulent on the midrib 

 above and pubescent in the axils of nerves beneath, viridescent when dry, 

 3-8 J cm. long, 1J-4J cm. wide ; midrib prominent beneath ; veils patulous, 

 4-9 on each side ; petiole pubescent but then glabrate, 2-5 mm. long ; st'pu'es 

 ovato-lanceolate to linear, obtuse to acuminate, pubescent, ciliated, deciduous, 

 viridescent, 2J-6 mm. in length. Kacemes narrow, subdensely or rather loosely 

 flowered, about 3-4 cm. long in flower, few together in the upper axils, or 

 in a short terminal panicle, often with deciduous linear-subulate scales below, 

 the lateral branches divaricate in fruit; rachis pubescent. Male-flowers about 

 2 mm. across, shortly pedicellate ; pedicels solitary, patent, very thinly minute- 

 • *inrr?niig, puberulent, 1-2 mm. long ; bract minute, subulate, acuminate, ciliat- 

 ed, thinly membranaceous, usually somewhat shorter than pedicels. Calyx 

 thin, patelliform, 4-lobed, glabrous; lobes depressed->ubdeltoid, pauci-crenulate 

 towards the apex. Disk thick, orbicular, obscurely subcrenate on margin. 

 Stamens 3-4, much exserted, erect-patent, glabrous, about 2 mm. long ; 

 filament stoutfiliform ; anther furcate. Rudimentary ovary minute, sessile. 

 Female-flowers about 2mm. across, shortly pedicellate ; pedicels solitary, 

 patent, puberulent, about 1-2 mm. long ; bracts subulate to oblong, acuminate 

 to obtuse, sparingly ciliated, shorter than pedicels, about §-lmm. long. Calyx 



