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 THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. 



[Vol. V. October lo, 1891. X®. S©.] 



New or Little Known Plants of- Japin."' :;--.. 



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Chamsesaracha Watanabei, nov. spV -:-,,_.',.-, -<-'^'' 

 Nom. jap. Fuji-hozuld. y i^>h \ V^"^* 

 Solanaceae. 

 (Plate XXIX.) 



Chamaesaracha japonica, Franchet et Savatier, Enum. Plant. Jap., vol. ii., 

 P- 455, pro parte. 



A perennial herb. Rootstock short, with thick roots. Stem angular, 

 slightly hairy, i — 2 feet high; branches subdichotomous, divaricate. Leaves 

 exstipulate, alternate, often 2 or 3 together and unequal in size, ovate-lanceolate, 

 tapering at the apex, narrowed into winged petioles at the base, entire or 

 slightly repand, minutely ciliate at the margins, scattered with a{)pressed 

 jointed hairs on the upper surface, less hairy on the under surface, minutely 

 scaly under the lens on both surfaces; large leaves 5 inches long, 2 inches broad; 

 ordinary ones 2 — 3 inches long, I — 1| inches broad; petioles usually 3 — 4 

 lines long, long ones about I inch long. Flowers about | inch across, solitary 

 or 2 — 3 together, axillary, nodding, on slender pedicels of J — | inch. Calyx 

 crateriform, broadly 5 -toothed, minutely pubescent, ciliate at the rim. Corolla 



