Observations on the Flora of Japan, 



{Continued from p. 127.) 



By 



T . M a k i n o . 



Lecturer of Botany in the Science College, 

 Imperial University, Tokyo. 



Hamamelis obtusata (Matsum.) Makino, nom. nov. 



Hamamelis japonica var. obtusata Matsum. in Sched. herb. 

 Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo. 



Hamamelis incarnata Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XXVII. 

 (1913), p. 71. 



Leaves alternate, short-petiolate, somewhat oblique, obovato- 

 oval or obovato-orbiculate, broadly cuneate in the lower half, 

 unequal and obtuse rounded or subcordate at the base, rounded 

 obtuse subtruncato-obtuse or subemarginate at the apex, ir- 

 regularly repand-crenate except the basal portion, glabrous deep- 

 green and shining above, pubescent with stellate pale (dirty 

 when dried) hairs in axils of veins and paler beneath, chartaceo- 

 coriaceous, 3-9 cm. long, 2^-9| cm. broad ; midrib veins and 

 main-veinlets prominent beneath and impressed above ; midrib 

 and veins pubescent with stellate pale-fulvous hairs beneath 

 when young ; veins reaching to the edge, erect-patent, straight, 

 parallel, 4—7 on each side, the outer larger ones having the 

 erect-patent straight branches of 1—3 outside in the upper por- 

 tion ; main-veins numerous, transverse between veins, reticulated 

 with smaller veinlets beneath ; praefoliation plicate ; petiole 

 semiterete, shallowly canaliculated in front, thinly covered with 

 stellate short pale-fulvous hairs, 3-11 mm. long, viridescent and 

 shaded with purplish colour. Fruit oval, *— '-girt with the 

 persistent calyx, very denseh r covered with fulvo-avellaneous 



