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THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. 



[Vol. V. November. lo, 1891. ;K'o. 57.] 



New or Little Known Plants. <5fJag?an. r%?, ^N 



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No. 15. /'' ''* l^\\S r;^KUiM "^ 



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Chamassaracha echlnata, Yatabe. 

 Nom. jap. Iga-hozuki. >^ ;^*:t: \ T^» 

 Solanaceae. 

 (Plate XXX.) 



Chamaesaracha echinata, Yatabe, in Bot. Magaz., Tokyo Bot. Soc., 

 vol. v., p. 317. — C. japonica, Franchet et SavatIer,Enum. PI. Jap., vol. ii., p. 

 455, pro parte. — Catal. pi., Science College, Imp. Uuiv., Tokyo, p. 139. — Catal. 

 Pi., Bot. Gard., Imp. Univ., Tokyo, p. 15S. Icon. Jap. — Somoku Zusetsu, 

 vol. iii, fol. 47, sub Iga-hozuki. — Honzo Zufu, vol. xvii., fol. 23 verso, sub 

 Ine-hbzuki, 



A coarse perennial herb, 2 — 4 i>^QX. high. Rhizome thick, branched. 

 Stem angular, with prominent ridges; branches subdichotomous or subtrichoto- 

 mous, divaricate, more or less hairy. Leaves exstipulate, geminate, often 

 unequal, 3 or more together at the apex of branches, broadly ovate, some- 

 what acuminate at the apex, oblique and decurrent into winged petioles at the 

 base^ scattered with jointed hairs and under the lens minutely pubescent on 

 both surfaces, pale and with prominent veins on the under surface, ciliate at 



