species of Berehcmia, and especially of B, racemosa var. t 3. magna Makino. 



Sty rax Shiraiana Makino sp. now • 



A deciduons moderate-sized tree ; branchlet glabrous but tomentose in 

 the shoot of this year, flexupus, rather divaricate, purplish-gray, and the 

 outer bark often thinly peeling off. Leaves shortly pctioled, mostly 3 on 

 branchlets ; the superior one largest, rhoinbeo-orbicular, cuneate or cuneate- 

 obtuse at the base, shortly projected into a narrowly deltoid mucronate 

 obtuse tooth at the apex, 6J-9J cm long, 5-9J cm wide, the inferior two 

 smaller elliptical and usually approximately alternate ; unequally and 

 coarsely sinuate-dentate with mucronate deltoid sharp teeth and open 

 deltoid sinuses towards the apex, thinly and sparingly disparsed with stellate 

 hairs on both surfaces, densely pilose with whitish fascicled hairs at the axil 

 of the midrib and veins, green on both surfaces, penninerved, midrib and 

 veins elevated underneath. Raceme terminating the branchlets, much 

 shorter than the leaves ; rachis short, several-flowered, hirsute-tomentose 

 with stellate-fascicled drabbish-isabel-coloured hairs. Flower very shortly 

 pedicellate, each subtended by a bract, the latter often foliaceous in the 

 inferior one. Calyx shortly campanulate, unequally 5-fid with sharply 

 and narrowly deltoid often bifid lobes, hirsute-tomentose with stellate- 

 fascicled drab hairs, persistent. Corolla Stamens. 



Style long, filiform, tomentose. Young fruit globose-ovoid, elightly de- 

 pressed at the top, and with the basal remains of the style, covered with 

 close-pressed holosericeous drab hairs, the carpel coriaceous. 



Nom. Jap. Ko-hakuunboku. 



Hub. Prow Shimotsuke : lit Nikko (T. Makino ! August 8, 1884) ; 

 Prov. Tosa: Mt. Tebako-yama (T. Makino ! Aug. 1885), Oku-nanokawa 

 (K. Watanabel June 11, 1888); Prov. Suruga : Araizawa in Abe-gori 

 (Herb ! Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo). 



A tree sparingly distributed over this country, having remarkably 

 different aspects from the two other species of Japanese Slgrax already 

 recognized, habit of the leaves and branches especially approaching to 

 that of the Hamamdis japonica Sieb. et Zucc. I named in honour of 

 Prof. Mitsutaro Shirai, by whom the presents pecies has previously been noticed. 



Vitis (Euvitis) saccharifera Makino nom. now 



Hem scandent. Branches slender, terete, nodose, often slightly 



flexuoUg, casteneous-brown, glabrous but rufo-tomentosc in the shoot of this 



