April, wis.] t. MAKINO.— OBSERVA TTONS 02i THE FLORA OFJA PAN. 79 



hairs. Leaves coriaceous, alternate, petiolate, ovato-elliptical 

 to lanceolato-oblong, or elliptical, shortly acuminate with an 

 obtuse tip, obtuse or acutish at the base, adpressed-serrate 

 with few to several teeth from the middle or below the middle 

 to the apex, rarely mixed with the nearly entire ones, glabrous, 

 but in j^oung leaves puberulent on the midrib on the upper 

 surface, shining and deep-green above, paler beneath, about 

 2J-5 cm. long, 1^-2| cm. broad ; midrib prominent above ; 

 veins erect-patent, about 6-10 on each side, delicately promi- 

 nent above when dried; veinlets invisible; petiole 3-8 mm. long, 

 semiterete, canalkulated in front, puberulent with short patent 

 hairs and the hairs finally almost fallen off. Drupe red, erect, 

 solitary, peduncled, small, globose, glabrous, smooth, mucro- 

 nate with a depressed stigma at the top, with a persistent 

 ciliated-semiorbiculato-4-lobed calyx at the base, about 5-6 

 mm. across ; peduncle about equalling the leaves in length, 

 solitary, axillary, erect-patent, gracile, glabrous, 2\— 3| mm. 

 long, 2— bracteate above or below the middle ; bracts opposite 

 or approximate, minute, adpressed or erect-patent, setaceo- 

 subulate, acuminate, ciliated, deciduous, about 2—4- mm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Kuro-soyogo. 



Hah. Prov. TOSA (T. Makino !), Mt. Shiraga (S. Okamura ! 

 April 4, 1906), Mt. Yahazu (R. Yatabe ! herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. 

 Univ. Tokyo, Aug. 8, 1888); Prov. KII : Alt. Koya (J. Matsu- 

 mura and S. Okubo ! herb. ibid. July 19, 1883), Kokuchi-mura 

 (Herb.! ibid. Nov. 14-, 1908, with the vernacular name of 

 Ahura-ki). 



This is a tree, while the a. brevipedunculata is a shrub. 

 It grows on hills and higher mountains in the middle and 

 southern Japan. 



Rubus Thunbergii Sieb. et Zucc. in Abh. Akad. Muench. 

 IV. 2 (1845), p. 126. 



var. Harai Makino, var. nov. 



Flower double. Otherwise as in the type. 



Nom. Jap. Yaezaki-kusaichigo (nov.). 



