THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. 



[Vol. V. July lo, 1891. No. 53.] 



A New Japanese Wikstroemia. 



Ryokichi Yatabe, Sc. D. 



Wikstroemia albiflora, nov. sp. 

 Nom. jap. Hid. b :t ^ . 

 (Plate XXVI.) 



A shrub 2 — 5 feet high; young branches brown, old branches grey. 

 Leaves opposite, glabrous, ovate or broadly ovate-lanceolate, entire, pale or 

 glaucescent and with 3 — 5 rather prominent pinnate veins on the under surface, 

 I — I inch long, 3 — 6 lines broad; petioles short, J line long. Flowers white, 

 subsessile, 3 or 4 together, capitate, terminating the branches. Perianth-tube 

 smooth, slender, slightly dilated towards the apex, 3 lines long; its limb 4- 

 parted; the lobes patent, broadly ovate, obtuse, about i line long, imbricate 

 in the bud. Stamens 8 in 2 series, those opposite the lobes of perianth inserted 

 in the throat, the alternate ones in the middle portion of the tube; filaments 

 short; anthers oblong, obtuse, adnate, orange in color. Hypogynous scale 

 small, I or wanting. Ovary clavate, with the base stalk-like, slightly curved, 

 I -celled, about I line long; style very short; stigma capitate, hispidulous 

 under the lens. Ovules solitary, anatropous, pendulous. — Fl. May. 



Living specimens of this plant were collected by Mr. K. Watanabe, at 

 Nanokawa-mura, in the province of Tosa, in March 1891, and are now kept in 

 the Botanic Garden of the Imperial University. Its near relative is W. 



