Plantse Japonenses novae vel minus cognitse. 



(Co?iti?ined from p. 12.) 



By 

 T. Makino, 



Assistant of Botany in the Science College, 

 Imperial University, Tokyo. 



Acanthopanax (Eleutherococcus) hypoleucum Makino sp. nov. 



A deciduous small shrub ; branches slender, terete, brownish-cinereous 

 but those of the last year ferruginous, sparingly aculeate, but sometime 

 bare ; aculei straight, patent but slightly reflexed, slender, acerose with 

 a sharp tip, 4-5 mm long, often denser and verticillate on the nodes ; 

 lenticels indistinct ; bud-scales carnose, glabrous, their margins densely 

 ciliated. Leaves 5-digitate, totally glabrous, distantly alternate but 

 tufted in case of shortened innovations ; petiole long and slender, 3-lOj cm 

 long, dilated and semiamplexicaul at the base ; leaflets shortly petiolulate, 

 green above, glaucous beneath, 3 superior ones oblong-ohovate with cuneate 

 bases, 2 inferior ones oblong-ovate with nearly unequal acute or obtuse 

 bases, narrowly acuminate at the apex, serrate with mucronate-acute or 

 mucronate-obtuse teeth which are sometimes accompanied with duplicate ones, 

 free from the serration towards the base, thin and nearly coriaceous, the 

 superior one largest and 7-* -12 cm in length, 3-5 J cm in width, the next 

 two smaller, and the lowest two about two-third as long as the superior 

 "He. the petiolule j-1 cm long; veins about 6-9 in each side of the 

 midrib, erect-patent, somewhat curved upwards. Inflorescence terminal, 

 often brandling with its glabrous common rachis flexuous and often elongate ; 

 the peduncles loose and few in number, glabrous, slenderly elongate, thick 

 at the base, the longest one about 10 cm in ripe fruit but commonly 

 3-7 cm. Umbel terminal and solitary on each peduncle, small, about 

 12-27-nowered, globular; pedicels dense, slender, filiform, strict, glabrous 

 thick at the base and somewhat tomentose between them, 10-12 mm 

 long but in the fructescence 12-18 mm. Flower small, 4 mm in diameter. 

 Calyx superior, annular, 5-dentate, the teeth very short and broad, but 



