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glabrous, smooth ; branehlets erect-patent or patulous ; bud 

 narrowly conical, tapering. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, 

 lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, or ovato-lanceolate, often some- 

 what falcate, long-acuminate, acute at the base, crenulate, quite 

 glabrous, green above, light green beneath, membranaceous, 

 4— 13 cm. long, 1J— 4 cm. broad; midrib and veins prominent 

 beneath, veins about 5—8 on each side, erect-patent, slightly 

 arcuate upwards ; petiole glabrous, 3-5 mm. long. Cyme 

 umbellate, several-flowered, long-peduncled ; peduncle filiform, 

 glabrous, 4-9} era. long in fruit. Flowers pedicellate, 4— merous ; 

 pedicel gracile, glabrous, purpurascent, 16—23 mm. long in fruit. 

 Sepals semiorbicular, membranaceous, concave, entire, veined, 

 purple, glabrous, persistent, about 2 mm. long. Petals orbicu- 

 late, 5 mm. broad. Stamens short ; filament very short, subu- 

 late. Capsules pendulous, 1-3 to a peduncle, globose and 

 then dehiscent, exangulatc, smooth, glabrous, light green, 4— 

 carpellary, hardly 4— sulcate vertically, about 9-10 mm. across. 

 Seeds 1—2 in each cell, elliptical-oblong, compressed, fulvous, 

 slightly minutely rugose longitudinally ; aril red, entirely in- 

 closed the seed ; embryo within the albumen and nearly as long 

 as it ; cotyledons fiat, oblong ; cauricle much shorter than the 

 cotyledons. 



Xom. Jap. Ao-tsuribana (nov.). 



Hah. Prov. Osumi ; Yaku-shima, mountains (T. Makino ! 

 Sept. 1909.). 



This species comes near to Euonymus mclananthus Franch. 

 et Sav., but the stem and leaves are much larger ; it has the 

 habit of E. oxyphyllus Miq. The green trunk and branches 

 give to it a peculiar appearance. 



Cissus japonica (Thunb.) Willd. Sp. PI. I. p. 659. 

 Vitis japonica Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. L04. 

 var. dentata Makino, var. nov. 



Leave- thinner; Leaflets subunequally dentate with cuspidate 

 deltoid teeth, 



Nom. Jap. Hiragi-yabugara hi (nov.). 



