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5-lSmra. wide, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib prominent beneath ; 

 veins loose, few on each side, delicately prominent and loosel\ r 

 venose beneath ; petiole canaliculate in front, glabrous, l-i—8 mm. 

 long. Flower (female) solitary', pedicellate, 4-merous, about 

 4- mm. in diameter; pedicels 1-2-fasciculate in the axil of 

 leaves, much shorter than leaves, about 4 mm. or less long, 

 strict, glabrous, minutely bracteate at the base. Calyx-lobes 



semiorbicular. Petals oval, concave, ciliolated. Stamens (rudi- 

 mental) higher than the ovary ; anther oval-deltoid, shorter 

 than the filament. Ovary globose, 1J mm. across, glabrous, 

 with a sessile stigma at the top. 



Nom. Jap. Munin-inutsuge (nov.). 



Hab OGASAWARA ISL.=BONIN ISL. (Herb.! Mus. Imp. 

 Tokyo, 1879). 



I have named this novelty in dedication to Mr. Migaki 

 Matano, Director of the Imperial Museum, Tokyo. 



Ilex Sugeroki Maxim, in Mem. Acad. Imp. Sc. St. Petersb. 

 7. ser. XXIX. n. 3 (1881), p. 22 et 35. 



subsp. a. brevipedunculata (Maxim.) Makino. 



Ilex Sugeroki forma brevipedunculata Maxim. I.e. p. 36 tab. 

 1, fig. d, e ; Loesener, Monogr. Aquifol. p. 134. 



A shrub, densely ramose. Leaves very dense, smaller. 

 Peduncle short. 



Nom. Jap. Akami-no-inutsuge (K. Miyabe), Aka-tsuge (J. 

 Matsumura), Miyama-kurosoyogo (T. Makino). 



Hab. JAPAN. 



This is always found growing in high and alpine mount- 

 ains, and abundant in the northern Japan. 



subsp. b. longepedunculata (Maxim.) Makino. 



Ilex Sugeroki forma longepedunculata Maxim. 1. c. tab. 1, 

 fig. 7, excl. d, e. ; Loesener, 1. c. 



A small tree, sempervirent, laxly ramose, rather loosely 

 foliose ; branches slender, terete, ramurose, glabrate, castaneo- 

 luliginous, very thinly dispersed with minute lenticels ; branch- 

 lets erect-patent, alternate, slender, puberulent with short-patent 



