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(lobes oval to oblong, obtuse at the apex), cuneately attenuat- 

 ed at the base, membranaceous, corrugato-undulate, glabrous, 

 delicately several-veined longitudinally, about 2 cm. long, 2— 2| 

 mm. wide, deciduous. Stamens 4, alternate with petals, 

 inserted at the throat, erect-patent, about one-half as long as 

 the calyx, glabrous, about 2mm. long; filament straight, stout, 

 thick, smooth, compressed antero-posteriorly, deep-purple ; 

 anther 2— celled, introrse, rounded, emarginate at the apex, 

 purple but deep-purple in the connective, widely and orbicularly 

 opening by the elliptical persistent lids, which each is fixed to 

 the inner side of each anther-cell, 1mm. long, with yellow pollen. 

 Glands 4, alternate with the stamens and each stands between 

 them, much smaller than the stamens, opposite to the petals 

 and closely stand before them, erect-patent, curved dorsally, 

 liguliform, obtuse truncate or retuse at the apex, scarcely 

 enlarged below, entire, thickish, convex in front, plane in back, 

 glabrous, smooth, deep-purple, about If mm. long, secreting 

 honey. Pistil slightly lower than the stamens, erect, adherent 

 to the lower portion of the calyx-tube at the base, surrounding 

 by the inconspicuous annular disk of the inner side of the calyx- 

 tube, about 2|mm. long; ovaries 2, connate at the base, erect, 

 hirsute with adpressed light-fulvous stellate hairs, shortly ovate, 

 one-celled, thick-walled, with 1 globular ovule ; styles recurvo- 

 erect-patent, continued to ovary, thick, stout, somewhat com- 

 pressed antero-posteriorly, slightly one-canaliculated ventrally, 

 gradually attenuated above, glabrous, deep-purple ; stigma 

 terminal, not thick. Fruit 



Nom. Jap. Akabana-mansaku. 



Hab. Prov. MUSASHI: Tokyo, cultivated (K. Onda ! March 

 1912 ; T. Making ! March 1913). 



This species is very remarkable b}' its reddish flowers 

 instead of having yellow ones as in all other species such 

 as H. Yirginiana Linn., H. japonica Sieb. et Zucc. and H. 

 mollis Oliv. 



Eurya yakushimensis Makino, nom. nov. 



