232 ^V/ii; BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. LVoi. xxv. No. 29s 



the staminal column, minute, squamiform, oblong, spathulate- 

 obovate, or ovate, rounded obtuse retuse truncate or emar- 

 ginate at the apex, entire, flat but thickish, glabrous, virides- 

 cent, sometimes partly adherent to the sepals. Staminal 

 column erect, straight, exserted, viridescent, terete, gradually 

 enlarged below, smooth, glabrous, about 2mm. long ; connective 

 peltate, truncate at the top with a minute protuberance in 

 centre, viridescent, about Jmm. across ; anthers sessile, 4 or 

 sometimes 5, marginal, turned outwards, opposite with the 

 sepals, white, transversly dehiscing with white pollen ; pollen 

 ellipsoid, shallowly 3— sulcate, minutely scaberulose on surface 

 under microscope. Fruting pauricles pendulous, attaining about 

 9cm. in length. Fruits (matured) numerous, often mixed with 

 infertile ones, shortly pedicellate, sphaerical, about 6mm. across, 

 succulent with a submilky juice ; smooth, pale rosy, with a 

 minute style above the base in the ventral side. 



Nom. Jap. Miyakojima-tsudzurafudzi. 



Hah. Prov. Satsuma : Near Kagoshima, side of Kagoshima 

 Bay (K Nakano ! Nov. 1910). 



The materials are due to the kindness of Mr. Y. Nakano 

 of Kagoshima Normal School, who sent me the matured fruits 

 and male flowers. 



Ilex Hanceana Maxim, in Mem. Acad. Imp. St. Petersb. 

 7 ser. XXIX. (1881), p. 33 ; Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. XXIir. p. 116; Ito et Matsum. Tent. Fl. Lutch. I. p. 367; 

 Loesener, Monogr. Aquifol. p. 203, tab. 7, fig. 1. 



Ilex buxifolia Hauce in Journ. Bot. (1876), p. 364, non 

 Gardner. 



A small tree, sempervirent ; branches terete, not stout, 

 glabrous, cinereous ; branchlets gracile, erect-patent, green or 

 dark-green, young ones gracile, green or dark-green, substriate, 

 very minutely short-puberulent under lens, 1— 2mm. across. 

 Leaves dense, alternate, petiolate, obovate to oblanceolate, or 

 rarely oval or rotund-oval {forma rotundata, a Liukiu form), 

 abruptly short-attenuated with a retuso-emarginate tip, cune- 

 ate towards the base and very angustately decurrent to the 



