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New or Little Known Plants of Japan. 
No. 17. ; 
Ryokichi Yatabe, Sc. D. 

Spiraea tosaensis, nov. sp. 
Nom. jap. Tosa-shimotsuke. ト サ シ モツ ZF. 
A much branched shrub with a grey bark, 4-5 feet high; branches subangulate. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, 
oblanceolate or(cuneate, coriaceous, glabrous, 3-4-costate, 3- or sometimes more-toothed at the apex, entire at the 
margins, narrowed into short petioles at tle base, glaucescent and with conspicuous reticulated veinlets on the 
under surface, 3-1 inch long, 13-3 lines broad; petioles 1-2 lines long. Corymbs terminating branchlets, 5-20- 
flowered; pedicels 3-8 lines long; bracteoles on the pedicels linear, 1-2 lines long. Calyx persistent, obconical, 
1-13 lines across in fruit; its lobes 5, deltoid, erect and about } line long in fruit. Follicles 5, alternate with the 


