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very shortly peduncled, short, fasciculato-globose, but ovoid and about 1-Jcm. 

 long in fruit, densely many- several-flowered, often provided with 2 small 

 leaves at the base ; bracts ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, patently pubescent 

 clorsally, ciliated with patent pilose hairs, broader and often more or less 

 longer than the calyx-segments, light green, hut narrowly thin and hyaline 

 on margin. Flowers very shortly pedicellate. Calyx very deeply 5-parted, 

 persistent ; segments subnlato-linear, attenuatedly angustato-acuminate, 

 shallowly concave wilhin, thinly patent-pilose dorsally, thinly pilose with 

 patent glandular hairs, light green but narrowly hyaline and membranaceous 

 on margin, 1-nerved, the posterior one smallest, the anterior two longest 

 and about 6mm. in length. Corolla much exserted, about twice as long 

 as the calyx and 9 mm. long, bright violet ; tube cylindrical, somewhat 

 enlarged above, smooth externally, barbate internally, If mm. across in the 

 middle portion ; limb 4-fid, much shorter than the tube, lobes erect-patent, 

 slightly unequal, deltoid, acute, entire, narrowly inflexed on margin, the 

 anterior one smallest, the posterior one largest and 2-nerved. Stamens 

 2, posticous, inserted to the corolla tube, much exserted, about 12 mm. long ; 

 filament filiform, straight, bright violet, barbate below ; anther elliptical, 

 1-1-1§ mm. long ; pollen deep yellow then white, oblong, trisulcate longi- 

 tudinally under microscope ; staminode none. Style exserted, lower than 

 the stamens, slender, attenuated above, straight, glabrous, purpurascent, 

 about 12 mm. long ; stigma minute, subcapitellate, obliquely truncato-sub- 

 emarginate. Ovary ovoid, shallowly one-sulcate on each side longitudinally, 

 glabrous but few-hairy at the apex, 2-celled, light green, about 1J mm. 

 long ; disk small, much shorter than the ovary, annular, entire, smooth, 

 light green ; ovules numerous, minute, oval, anatropous. Capsule ovoid, 

 2-sulcate longitudinally, about 3mm. long, few-seeded. Seed ellipsoid. 



Nom. Jap. Suzukake-so, Choken-kadzura, Choken-so. 



Icon. Iinmna's Somoku-Dzusetsu, ed. 2, I. no. 20. 



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



This species undoubtedly differs from B. axillare (Sieb. et Zucc.) 

 Hemsl. It is not yet known to us in wild state, but in cultivation only, 

 and is very rarely found. Plants in Tokyo were introduced from Nagoya, 

 Province of Owari, some twenty years ago. 



Botryopleuroil axillare (Sieb. et Zucc.) Hemsl. in Hooker's Ic. PI. 

 XXVII. sub tab. 2670 (1900). 



