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3-5 on each side, loose,- arcuate upwards ; petiole 2-20 inm. long, but 

 attaining about 4cm. in the lower leaves. Eaceme terminal! (incorrectly 

 described as " axilla res" from the figure of Iinuma's Somoku-Dzusetsu, 

 III, by Maximowicz), simple, naked, peduncled, about 4-15 cm. long, laxly 

 about 5-9-flowered ; raehis slender, thinly adpressed-pubescent ; peduncle 

 shorter than the raceme. Flowers about 11-12 mm. across, pale-cserules- 

 cent ; pedicel spreading, filiform, thinly adpressed-pubescent, longer than the 

 calyx, attaining about 1-Jcm. long in fruit. Calyx longer than the corolla- 

 tube, thinly adpressed-pubescent, green, persistent, 3-4 mm. long, but slight- 

 ly enlarged and 7 mm. long in fruit ; tube campanulato-obconical, shorter 

 than the lobes; lobes obtuse, oblong-lanceolate, but ova to-lanceolate and 

 erect-patent in fruit, entire, ciliated, veins loosely anastomosing. Corolla : 

 tube very short, included ; lobes patent, orbiculate, rounded at the apex » 

 fornices erect, short, retuso-emarginate, subfornicate, yellow. Stamens in- 

 serted on the upper portion of the corolla-tube ; filament very short ; 

 anther erect, narrowly oblong, obtuse. Style erect, short, reaching to the 

 throat ; stigma capitate. Ovary-lobes 4, subglobose. Nutlets 3 mm. long, 

 erect, shortly stipitate, attached to a plane gynophore, acuminato-pyramidal, 

 thinly pnberulent, the face subrhombeo-ovate, slightly convex in centre 

 longitudinally, lateral faces plane or somewhat concave. Flowers April. 



Nom. Jap. Tmru-kamebasd. 



Hah. Prov. Mutsu (F. Yammahi ! 1906). 



This species has a resemblance to Trigonotis radicans (Tnrcz.) Stev., 

 but the raceme of the latter is foliate ; and it also comes near to T. 

 Guilielmi (A. Gray) Maxim., in which the raceme is binate, flower white, 

 stem erect, and no lateral branch. The specific name should be 



" Iinumce " instead of " Icumce," the name being undoubtedly taken after 

 the author of the " Somoku-Dzusetsu." 



Alniphyllum Fortunei (Hemsl.) Makino. 



Hdlesia ? Fortunei Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXVI. (1889) p. 75. 



Alniphyllum pterospermum Matsum. in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XV. (1901) 

 p. 67; Hemsl. in Hooker's Icon. PI. XXVIII. tab. 2791 (1905); Matsum. 

 et Hayata, Enum. PL Formos. p. 232. tab. 15. 



Alniphyllum macranthum Perk, in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. XXXI. (1902) 

 p. 488. 



Hab. Formosa. 



Distrib. China. 



