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oblong, but narrower and smaller in the superior ones and at 

 length pass to the diminished bracts, acute or acutish at the 

 apex, acutely attenuated and decurrent to the petiole at the 

 base, rather coarsely dentato-serrate, often thickish, green above, 

 paler beneath, attaining about 2 cm. long, 1\ cm. broad exclu- 

 sive of the petiole ; veins 3—5 on each side ; veinlets loosely 

 anastomosing. Flowers few or solitary, pedicellate, medium- 

 sized, about l§-2 cm. long including the small obovoid or 

 obo void-globose ovary. Calyx-segments patent or refiexed, 

 lanceolate, acute, entire, green, 4—5 mm. long. Corolla coeruleo- 

 violet ; lobes depressedly deltoid-ovate, acute-tipped. Stamens 

 included ; anther linear, shorter than the filament, about 4 mm. 

 long. Disk conspicuous. Style exserted ; stigma trifid. 



Nom. Jap. Shima-shajin (nov.). 



Hah. Prov. Hizen : Ose-zaki in Isl. Fukaye [Z. Tashiro ! ; 

 T. Makino !). 



Distrih. Corean Archipelago. 



Rhododendron brachycarpum D. Don, ex G. Don, Gen. 

 Syst. Gard. III. p. 843 ; Maxim. Rhod. As. Or. p. 22. 



var. Nemotoanum Makino. 



Stamens corolla-like, with anthers. Others as in the type. 



Nom. Jap. Kemoto-shakunage. 



Hab. Prov. Iwashiro : Mt. Adzuma (G. Nakahara ! June 

 1904). 



Cynanchum amplexicaule (Sieb. et Zucc.) Hemsl. in 

 Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXVI. p. 104. 



Vincetoxicum amplexicaule Sieb. et Zucc. in Abh. Akad. 

 Muench. IV. 3, p. 162 ; Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 58 ; Franch. et 

 Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 318 ; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 781. 



var. castaneum Makino. 



Corolla castaneous in colour. 



Nom. Jap. Kvrohana-rokuonso (nov). 



Hab. Prov. Hizkn : Arakawa in Isl. Fukaye (T. Makino ! 

 Sept. 1908). 



