Nov. 1911.] MAKINO.— OBSEllY. ON THE FLORA OF JAP AX. 23 L 



Euonymus alata Maxim. Prim. Fl. Aumr. p. 73, apud 

 Maxim. 



Euonyums Thunbergiana Hance in Journ. Bot. (1875), p. 

 131, apud Maxim. 



Euonyums alata y. puhescens Maxim, in Mel. Biol. XI. p. 

 197 ; Komar. Fl. Mansh. II. p. 705. 



Nom. Jap. Ke-komayutni (nov.). 



Hah. Japan. 



Cissampelos insularis Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, 

 XXIV. (1910), p. 227. 



Stem terete, glabrous, umber ; wood with large and several 

 radiating medulary rays, sinistral. Leaves green above, glau- 

 cous beneath when fresh ; midrib and main veins slightly promi- 

 nent beneath ; veins and veinlets impressed above ; petiole terete, 

 slightly enlarged at the basal portion. Male ELOWER.-Inflo- 

 rescence axillary, solitary or geminate, man^^-flowerd, pendu- 

 lous, attaining about 7cm. in length, narrowly panicled, with 

 short and loose branches ; branch solitary, inserted at the axil 

 of the bract, erect-patent, racemosely disposed with a few to 

 several flowers, viridescent ; rachis slender, terete, viridescent, 

 thinly pubescent with subadpressed ascending hairs as well as 

 the branches. Bracts small, shortly petioled, subrhombicly 

 deltoid-ovate or narrowly deltoid-ovate, subobtuse, viridescent, 

 thickly pubescent dorsally and thinly so ventrally with avella- 

 neous hairs, thickish, attaining about 2mm. long ; bracteoles 

 minute, broadly oblanceolate, subobtuse, viridescent, adpressedly 

 pubescent with light avellaneous hairs dorsally, about 1mm. 

 long. Flowers regular, small, viridescent, about 2Jmm. across, 

 ver}^ shortly pedicellate, or nearly sessile in the superior ones, 

 thinly pilosulate outside, articulated to the pedicel ; pedicel 

 straight, terete, adpressedly pubescent, green, attaining 1mm. 

 long. Sepals 4 or sometimes 5, campauulate below and 



recurvo-patent above, confluent with the base of the staminal 

 column at the base, imbricated in bud, ovate, obtuse, entire, 

 thickish towards the base, the inner ones hardly smaller. 

 Petals 4 or sometimes 5, included ; inserted at the base of 



