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but densely sericeous- pilose-pubescent (fulvous in colour when dry) when 

 young except the front side which is constantly glabrous. Inflorescence 

 umbellate, with caducous involucres, laterally situated at the uppermost 

 portion of branehlets of the last year ; the peduncle spreading, narrow, 

 straight, a little compressed pubescent and 3-8 mm. in length, but 

 terete glabrate and 5-10 mm. long ; bract small, subulate-deltoid or 

 deltoid-ovate, ciliated, sharply acute, thicker towards the centre, about 4 

 mm. long, caducous. Umbel hemispherical, with about 12-15 flowers, 

 2-2^ cm. across in the male umbel, but 1-1 J cm. across in the female one ; 

 pedicel filiform, straight, sericeous-pubescent with subad pressed hairs, 6-11 

 mm. long in the male, but 3-5 mm. long in the female ; iuvolucle 4, 

 rounded, deeply concave within, thinly pubescent, ciliated, the outer 2 thicker 

 and slightly subkeeled on the back, the inner 2 membranaceous. Flowers 

 dioecious, small, coetaneous with the young leaves, but the flower-buds form 

 before the fall of leaves in autumn. Male flower about 5 mm. across ; 

 perianth 6-leaved, with a very short tube at the base, crateriform ; lobes 

 elliptical, concave within, rounded at the apex, entire, punctulate, one- 

 nerved, slightly pubescent on both surfaces towards the base and centre, 

 the outer ones scarcely smaller than the inner ones which are about 3-3J 

 mm. in length. Stamens 9, ascending, shorter than the perianth, the 

 outer 3 and the middle 3 equal, but the inner 3 scarcely shorter than the 

 rest and each with 2 minute thick subreniform and substipitate glands near 

 the base ; filament filiform, but those of the inner row broader towards 

 the base, longer than the anther; anther round- elliptical, collaterally and 

 vertically 2-locellate, punctulate. Rudimentary ovary minute, ovate, nar- 

 rowly attenuated upwards, glabrous. Female flower about 3 mm. across ; 

 perianth 6-leaved, with a very short tube at the base, crateriform, decidu- 

 ous ; lobes. subequal, oblong, entire, rounded at the apex, punctulate, one- 

 nerved, slightly pubescent on both surfaces towards the base and centre, 

 2-2-J rrim. long. Sterile stamens 9, shorter than the perianth, clavate- 

 filiform, but the inner 3 broader at the lower half and each with 2 minute 

 thick sessile and subreniform-oblong glands at the middle. Ovary minute, 

 ovoidal-globose, erect, glabrous ; style terminal, erect, straight, narrow, longer 

 than the ovary ; stigma slightly dilated, simple or irregularly dichotomous. 

 Berry about 2-11 to an umbel, seated on the very much thick and shal- 

 lowly concave top of the thickened clavate- terete straight or arcuate glabr- 

 ous or more or less pubescent pedicel, globose, somewhat compressed 

 laterally, about 7-8 mm. in diameter, shining, bright scarlet when mature, 

 with a nigro-punctum which is left by the fall of the style, pulp thick, 

 fleshy, oily, yellow, odoriferous. Seed globose ; testa thin, crustaceous, 

 fulvo-brown, tegmen membranaceous, brown, closely adhering to the testa ; 

 embryo globose ; cotyledons equal, thick, plano-convex, oily, yellow ; caulicle 

 and plumule very minute. 



Benzoin Tlivnbergii Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. fam. nat. II. p. 204, no. 

 707, excl. svn. ; Hoffm. et Schult. Noins indigen. pi. Jap. et Chin. 1853, 

 p. 20, no. 80, et Nouv. ed. 1864, p. 8, no. 80. 



x Lindera umbellata Blume Mus. Bot. Ludg.-Batav. I. p. 324; Meisn. 

 in DC. Prodr. XV. 1, p. 245; Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Batav. II. p. 



