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Eurva japonica var. yakushimensis Makixo in Bot. Mag., 

 Tokyo, XXIV. (1910), p. 20. 



Nom. Jap. Hime-hisakaki. 



Rah. Prov. OSUMI : Isl. Yaku-shima (T. Makino ! Sept. 

 1909). 



Elaeagnus Matsunoana Makino, sp. nov. 



A shrub or small tree, deciduous, densel}' ramose ; branches 

 dark-brown ; branchlets alternate, terete, depressedh' leprous 

 with gre\^ or darkish-avellaneous scurfs ; young branchlets di- 

 varicate, depressedly densely leprous with pale-gilvous scurfs. 

 Leaves alternate, petiolate, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, shortly 

 acuminate with an obtuse point at the apex, rounded or rarely 

 acute and often slightly unequal-sided at the base, entire and 

 ciliated with stellate hairs, membranaceous, light green and 

 thinl}' dispersed with stellato-fasciculate erect hairs above, de- 

 pressedl}^ densely covered with silvery scurfs mixed with gilvous 

 stellate hairs, which are denser and deeper-coloured and soft to 

 touch in the young leaves, about 2-8 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide ; 

 midrib prominent beneath ; veins delicate, about 6—7 on each 

 side, erect-patent, arcuate upwards ; veinlets inconspicuous ; 

 petiole 2—6 mm. long, densely covered with scurfs mixed with 



stellate hairs. Flowers Fruit small, pedicellate, oval 



when young, mucronately beaked at the top, densely covered 

 with depressed fuliginous scurfs ; pedicel axillary, solitary, 

 gracile, gradually more or less enlarged above, densely and de- 

 pressedly covered with silvery scurfs, about 2— 3f cm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Hakone-gumi (nov.). 



Hab. Prov. SAGAMI: Mt. Futago in Hakone (T. Makino! 

 June 16, 1912). 



The nearest ally of this species is Elaeagnus utnbellata 

 Thunb., from which it differs by having the erect stellato-fas- 

 ciculate hairs (not depressed scurfs) on the upper surface of 

 leaves, and many stellate hairs on the under surface of leaves, 

 and the solitary pedicel in the axil. It is also different from 

 E. Yoshinoi Makino, a good species, which has the broader 



