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or truncato-rouuded at apex, entire or subcrenate towards the 

 apex, hyalino-membranaceous, persistent. Cyme condensed, 

 axillary, sessile, usually shorter than the petiole, extended hori- 

 zontally and more or less reflexedly, seeundly flowered, mixed 

 with male and female clusters ; peduncle ramose, flexuous ; 

 bracts minute, oblong-subulate or deltoid-subulate, obtuse or 

 acute, hyaline ; bracteoles smaller than bracts, ovato-subulate 

 or deltoid-ovate, hyaline. Male-flowers minute, nearly 1mm. 

 long, shortly pedicellate, the flower-bud obovato-globose ; peri- 

 anth-segments 2, obovato-orbicular, concave, membranaceous, 

 virid-mucronate under the apex. Female-flower green, minute, 

 about § mm. long, sessile or very shortly pedicellate ; perianth- 

 segments 3, subequal, erect-patent, broad-linear, subcucullate, 

 very minutely cuspidate at the apex, carinate dorsally, attain- 

 ing l|mm. long and subulato-linear in fruit ; staminodes 3, 

 shorter than the perianth-segments, obovate or elliptical, 

 obtuse, inflexed above the middle. Ovary elliptical-oblong, 

 smooth, shorter than the perianth ; stigma sessile, penicillate. 

 Nut ovate, compressed, sessile, ljmm. long, hardly longer or 

 shorter than the perianth, smooth, sparingly spotted. 



Nom. Jap. Ao-midzu (T. Makino.). 



Hab. Japan (T. Makino !). 



Common. This species is very closely allied to Pilea pumila 

 A. Gray, to which the former was identified by Maximowicz, 

 but it is a different species. In P. pumila A Gray the peri- 

 anth-segments of the male-flower are 4, stamens 4, cyme laxer 

 and leaves crenato-dentate with ovato-deltoid teeth (the upper 

 margin curved), and this is not yet found in Japan. 



Morus tiliaefolia Makino, nom. nov. 



Morus rubra var. japonica Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, 

 XIX. (1905) p. 134. 



Morus nigra Matsum. in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XVI. (1902) 

 p. 18, non Linn. 



Nom. Jap. No-guwa, Yama-guwa, Ke-guwa. 



Hab. Prov. Nagato, Bitchu, Kn. 



