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Small tree or shrub, erect, inermed, quite glabrous, branch- 

 lets terete and obtusely subtetragonous. Leaves simple, 

 opposite, • petiolate, quite entire, coriaceous, evergreen, pen- 

 ninerved ; stipules very minute, caducous. Cyme axillary, 

 peduncled, equal to or somewhat longer than the petiole in 

 length. Flowers small, crowded, viridescent, calyx-segments 

 ciliated-margined. 



Etymology. Othera, synonym of Ilex Integra Thunb. ( = 

 Othera japonica Thunb. = Ilex Othera Spreng.); dendron, a 

 tree. Named after the outward appearence of the tree, which 

 has a resemblance to Ilex Integra Thunb. 



A monotypic genus. This genus differs from Cassine, in 

 which the fruit is a drupe, ovules and seeds pendulous, stigma 

 sessile and leaves exstipulate ; from Elxodendron, by not hav- 

 ing the drupe and the explanate disk which is confluent to the 

 ovary. 



Otherodendron japonicum (Franch. et Sav.) Makiiio, 

 nom. nov. 



Elasodendron japonicum Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. II. 

 (1879) p. 315 ; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. XI. p. 205 (1881) ; Ito 

 et Matsum. Tent. Fl. Lutch. I. (1899) p. 107; Matsum. et 

 Hayata, Enum. PI. Formos. (1906) p. 84. 



Cassine japonica Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pi. I. (1891) p. 114 ; 

 Loesener in Engler et Prantl, Nat. Pfl.-Fam. III. 5 (1896) p. 

 215 ; Matsum. in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XII. (1898) p. 62. 



Small tree (attaining about 7 m. in height) or shrub, erect, 

 quite glabrous, evergreen ; branches terete, fusco-cinereous or 

 fusco-isabel-coloured, dispersed with minute lenticels ; branchlets 

 opposite, erect-patent, compresso-terete, obtusely sub-tetra- 

 gonous towards the end, smooth, padio-castaneous. Leaves 

 decassato-opposite, petiolate, coriaceous, shining and deep green 

 above, light green beneath, oval, ovato-elliptical, elliptical, 

 oblong, narrowly oblong, often scarcely rhombic, obtuse or 

 subemarginato-obtuse at the apex, acuto-cuneately attenuated 

 and decurrent at the base, quite entire and angustately marginate 

 (subrevolute when dried), 3— 9cm. long, 1^— 6|cm. wide ; midrib 

 slender, elevated above and hardly so below beneath; nervation 



