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Osmanthus fragrans Lour. var. latifolius Makino in Bot. 

 Mag., Tokyo, XVI. (1902) p. 32. = Osmanthus fragrans 

 Lour, forma. 



This is a mere form having the broader leaves. 



Osmanthus fragrans (Thunb.) Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 

 p. 28 ; Sieb. Syn. PL Oecon. Jap. in Verh. Batav. Gen. XII. 

 (1830) p. 36. 



Olea fragrans Thunb. Fl. Jap. (1781) p. 18, tab. 2. 



Nora. Jap. Mokusei, Gin-mokusei. 



Hah. Prov. Higo in Kiusiu : Mt. Shiragadake (T. Makino ! 

 Aug. 1908). 



Spontaneous ! New to the Flora of Japan, and it has 

 hitherto not been found wild in this country. This is commonly 

 cultivated in Japan, and it was introduced formerly from China. 

 Orange-flowered one is a variety bearing the common name of 

 Kin-mokusei in this country, it was also introduced from China 

 after the typical white-flowered one, and its scientific name is 



0. fragrans var. aurantiacus Makino (in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, 

 XVI. p. 32). 



Forsythia viridissima Lindl. in Journ. Ilort. Soc. Lond. 



1. p. 226 (1840), II. p. 157, et in Bot. Reg. (1817), tab. 39 ; Fl. 

 des Serres, III. (1847) tab. 261 ; Walp. Ann. I. p. 501 ; Hance 

 in Journ. I5ot. (1882) p. 37 ; Goldring in Garden, XXXIII. 

 (1888) p. 5(52 cum fig.; Hook, in Curtis's Bot. Mag. tab. 4587 ; 

 Forbes et Ilemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXVI. p. 82 ; Dippel, 

 Il.-mdl). Laubholzk. I. p. 100. 



Xom. Jap. Chuscn-rengyo. 



Hah. I'rov. I Iizicx : Nagasaki, cultivated (Z. Tashiro !). 



This species is found wild commonly in Corea. 



Poupartia Fordii Ilemsl. in Hook. lil. Icon. PI. tab. 2557 

 (1898). 



Pints s/>. ? Ilemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXIII. p. 1 Is. 



