April ms. T. MAKTNO.— OBSERVATIONS ON THE FLORA OF JAPAN. 71 



Hamamelis incarnata Makino, sp. nov. 



A deciduous shrub, divided from the base, erect, ramose, 

 grey-umber, dispersed with old lenticels ; branches slender, 

 covered with grey-sooty bark, thinly dispersed with minute 

 lenticels, terete, glabrate, flexuous ; branchlets tomentose with 

 short stellate dark hairs towards the apex ; bud lanceolato- 

 oblong, obtuse, compressed, denseh- tomentose (tomentum 

 darkish in caducous stipules, which are covering and protecting 

 the young leaves, and avellaneous in very 3'oung leaves of the 



bud). Leaves Inflorescences appear through or towards 



the top of the branchlets of last } 7 ear, loosely or subdensely 

 disposed. Flowers solitary or closely binate at the top of the 

 peduncle, cernuous, 3 7 ellowish-flesh-coloured, but deeper-flesh- 

 coloured towards the base, with a fishy smell, about 3i cm. 

 across ; \ eduncle terete, curved downwards, virid-umber, tomen- 

 tose with minute stellate hairs as are the bracts and bracteoles, 

 slightly enlarged above, about 8-10mm. long, with a node below ; 

 bracts, 2, opposite, erect-patent, semiorbicular, rounded at the 

 apex, entire, concave, glabrous internally, subcoriaceous, dark- 

 viridescent, about 2-3 mm. long ; bracteoles 2, opposite, alter- 

 nate with the bracts, to which they are closely appressed and 

 equal or scarcel} 7 longer in length, appressed to the calyx, erect- 

 patent, semiorbicular, rounded at the apex, entire, ciliated, 

 concave and purpnrascent internally, connate on one side 

 forming a cupule, thinner than the bracts and chartaceous. 

 Calyx appressedly subtended by the bracteoles and bracts, from 

 which it is much exserted, deeply 4-parted, about 5— 6mm. long, 

 about 9-10 mm. across the lobes, tomentose with very minute 

 stellate umber hairs externally, glabrous subshining and deep- 

 purple internally, persistent ; tube very short, shallowly patelli- 

 form, adherent to the ovary below ; segments 4, 2-seriate, 

 spreading and at length revolute, elliptical, obtuse at the apex, 

 entire, subcoriaceous, ciliated on margin, tomentose at the apex 

 internally, about 4imm. long, 3-3| mm. broad. Petals 4, 

 inserted at the throat, sessile, spreading and finally reflexed, 

 but circinate in bud, alternate with the calyx-segments, elon- 

 gate, linear, strap-shaped, entire, unequally bifid at the apex 



