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ING 277 
Spirzea dasyantha, Bunge, 
var. angustifolia, mihi. 
Nom. jap. Hosoba-ibukishimotsuke. ホッ バ オ ブ キシ モッ ク グ 。 : 

A dwarf shurb with a dark purplish-brown bark, intricately muuch branched. Young shoots, under 
surface of leaves, petioles, pedicels, and calyx tomentose with appressed hairs. Leaves oblong or 
oblong-rhomboid, cuneate at the base, subacute at the apex, inciso-dentate, sometimes somewhat 3— 
lobed, ま 一 !# inelhes lorlg, 2 一 8 lines broad; veins reticulated, depressed on the upper, prominent on 
the under surface; petioles 1—3 lines long. Corymbs umbellate, many-flowered, terminating leafy 
branchlets; pedicels 3—4 lines long in fruit. Calyx-lobes persistent, deltoid, patent or erecto-patent 
in fruit. Follicles 5, swollen on the back,. sparingly hairy, at last smooth and glossy, 1 line long and 
4 line broad. 
I collected specimens of this plant in fruit on July 24, 1887, at Nishu-mura in the province of Ashu 
in Shikoku. 


