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about 1-5 to a cyme, 

 large, pendulous, 



with a 4-lobate 

 persistent viridescent 

 calyx (3-4| mm. in 

 diameter) at the base, 

 acutely quadrangu- 

 lar and broadly turbi- 

 nate, subtruncate and 

 slightly concave in 

 centre at the apex, 

 broadly obtuse and 

 hardly projecting 



at the base, 



shallowly 1-grooved 

 longitudinally in the 

 faces, glabrous, egg- 

 yellow, subsmooth, 

 glabrous, often 



scarcely spreading^ 

 subrugose, 4— or ver}^ 

 rarely 5-celled, 12-20 



mm. long, 11-16 mm. across, dehiscing loculicidally ; carpels 

 thickly coriaceous, septiferous and placentiferous. Seeds usu- 

 ally 2 to each cell, one above and one below and closely placed 

 each other, globose, nearly smooth, with a dorsal line, isabel- 

 coloured ; about 5— 5i mm. across ; aril entirely covering, orange- 

 coloured ; albumen pale, fleshy and oily ; embryo green ; 

 cotyledons flat, orbicular, about 3| mm. broad; hypocotyl 

 minute, oblong, obtuse at the end; testa thin but crustaceous. 



Nom. Jap. Hizen-mayumi (nov.). 



Hah. Prov. HIZEN : Shiroyama in Isahaya, silvan place 

 on hill (Tsunesaburo Chiba ! Jan. 7, 1906 ; Zentaro Tashiro ! 

 Dec. 3, 1911; Tomitaro Makino ! Aug. 1908). 



The tallest one among the evergreen Euonymus of Japam 

 I have named this species in honour of Mr. Tsunesaburo 

 Chiba, who first found it and kindly sent me the specimens. 



Fig. I. reduced. 



