Observations on the Flora of Japan 



{Continued from p. 60.) 



By 



T. Makiiio. 



Lecturer of Botany in the Science College, 

 Imperial University, Tokyo. 



Enkianthus perulatus C. Schneider, 111. Handb. Laub- 

 holzk. II. (1912), p. 520, fig. 340 g. = E. perulatus Makino in 

 Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XXVII. (1913), p. 21. 



Euonymus Chibai Makino, sp. nov. (Fig. I.) 

 A sempervirent tree, glabrous ; branches terete, viridescent, 

 verruculose with fuscous striped-punctate lenticels below, slight- 

 ly 4-striate, often hardly swelling at nodes ; branchlets opposite, 

 erect-patent, 4-striate, -viridescent. Leaves dense, opposite, 



petiolate, oval or elliptical, abruptly acuminate with an obtuse 

 tip at the apex, acute at the base, crispato-crenate except 

 the entire lower half, narrowly marginate on margin, cori- 

 aceo-chartaceous, green and lucid above, yellowish-viridescent 

 beneath, 5-12 cm. long, 3— 6J cm. wide, remain on tree during 3 

 years ; midrib slender, prominent on both surfaces; veins about 

 6—9, delicately prominent on both surfaces when dry, erect- 

 patent, arcuate upwards, connecting each other near the 

 margin ; veinlets loosely reticulated ; petiole erect-patent or 

 spreading, green, canaliculated in front, 8— 15 mm. long. Cymes 

 appear at the leafless axil in the basal portion of the branchlets 

 of this year, few to several flowered, long-pedunclcd, dichasial, 

 viridescent ; peduncle 17—46 mm. long in fruit, erect-patent, 

 compressed-4-angled ; branches erect-patent, articulated to the 

 top of the peduncle, 1— 2-articulated, 4-angled ; extreme pedicels 

 5—7 mm. long in fruit, shorter than the capsule. Capsule 



