166 THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. L\'oi. xxxn. No. m. 



ct base, subduplicately serrate, subglabrous above, sprinkled with 

 stellate hairs beneath, primary nerves 5-6 on each side, the lower 4 of 

 which together with the midrib radiating from the very base, 4— 5 em. 

 long, 3.5-4.5 cm. wide ; petioles 10 mm. long, clothed with stellate 

 hairs. Stipules setaceous,- deciduous (?), much shorter than the petiole. 

 Flowers axillary, or forming terminal clusters ; pedicels gracile, jointed 

 in the middle or somewhat near the top, unequal in length, the longest 

 attaining 2 cm. (fruiting ones seen). Calyx glabrous, campanulate, 

 5—6 mm. across, 10-nerved with alternate 5 conspicuous, 5— lobed, lobes 



triangular, subacuminate. Petals 5 Carpels about 8, 2-awned, 



1-seeded. Seeds fuscous, smooth, subtrigonous, laterally compressed, 

 convex on the dorsal side, pilose with white hairs at hilum. (II. coll., 

 no. 21). 



This plant was collected in Chcngtu (l$cff[S), Szechuen, by I. Yama- 

 zuta in October, 1908. Of several species of the genus hitherto reported 

 from China, none is found to be identical with the present one. 



The vernacular name of it is ' yell-sang.' (If .IS?) 



3. Geraniaceae. 



4. Impatiens (Series B. III. axilliflorae Hook, f.) sp. (II. coll., no. 

 27). 



4. Ilicineae. 



5. Ilex corallina Fr. ; Diels. in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. XXIX 436 ; 

 Schneid , 111. Laubholzk. II. 165. (Leg. G. Aikawa). 



Nom. Jap (' Fan Cha Shu ' H&fiO 



6. I. Fargesii Fr. ; Diels I.e. 435 ; Schneid. I.e. 162. (Leg. G. 

 Aikawa). 



These two specimens are very imperfect, and the determination is 

 not satisfactory. 



5. Rhamn2C2:e. 



7. Paliurus ramosissimus Poik. ; Forb. et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. XXIII. 126; Diels I.e. 457; = P. Aublctia Schult. ; Benth. FI. 

 Hongk. 66 (errore Aubletii); Franch. PI. David. 71. (II. coll., no. 26). 



Nom. Jap. Hamanatsume. (|t|i|^). 



6. Rosaceae. 



8. Prunus pauciflora Bge., Enum. PI. Chin. Bor. 23 ; Walp. Rep. 

 II. 9 ; Forb. et Hemsl. I.e. 220 ; T. Pro. in Tokyo Bot. Mag. (1900) 



