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tomentose and not silvery leaves, and tomentose fulvous 

 branchlets. I have named this new species in memory of Mr. 

 Dyutaro MATSUNO, professor of Natural History in the First 

 Middle School of Kanagawa Prefecture, who collected this 

 plant in an excursion with me in the above-cited locality. 



Elaeagnus montana Makino, sp. now 



A shrub, deciduous, densely ramose ; branches dark-brown, 

 terete, depressedly leprous with old scurfs; branchlets alternate, 

 erect-patent, densely covered with depressed dark- ferruginous 

 scurfs, angulate, often flexuous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 

 elliptical, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, subabruptly acuminate 

 with an obtuse tip or obtuse at the apex, acute or subobtuse at 

 the base, entire, green and thinly dispersed with pale depressed 

 scurfs above, silvery with dense depressed scurfs sometimes 

 thinly mixed with ferruginous scurfs beneath, chartaceous, 

 3-8| cm. long, l|-4cm. broad; midrib prominent beneath; 

 veins about 6-9 on each side, erect-patent, delicate ; veinlets 

 inconspicuous. Flowers usually solitary, but sometimes 2-3- 

 fasciculate, pedicellate, axillar}-, cernuous, about 11mm. long; 

 pedicel shorter than the flower, gracile, about 10 mm. or less 

 long, covered with silvery and gilvous depressed scurfs. Calyx 

 densely covered with silver}- depressed scurfs thinly mixed with 

 gilvous scurfs outside ; limbs 4-, patent, shorter than the tube, 

 broadly ovate, acute, thinly covered with scurfs inside ; tube 

 oblong-cylindrical ; calyx-base small, fusiform, about 2 mm. 

 long. Stamens 4, slights exserted ; anther oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute at the apex, bifid at the base. Style exserted, filiform, 

 hooked at the top, glabrous, stigmatose on one side above. 

 Fruit erect, with a strict pedicel, oval-ellipsoid, covered with 

 depressed castaneo-atropurpureous scurfs, about 9-11 mm. long, 

 red ; pedicel somewhat enlarged above, 10-15 mm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Mame-gami. 



Hah. JAPAN, high mountains. 



An intermediate species between Elxagnus multiflora Thunb, 

 and E. umbellatn Thunb. 



