(356) NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN PLANTS OF JAPAN. 



the margins. Peduncles 1-3-ilowered, sometimes more, from the axils of 

 leaves, J inch or more long. Flowers nodding. Calyx cup-shaped, 5-lobed, 

 I J lines long, 2 lines across, covered with long delicate deciduous hairs from 

 thick bases which grow into prickles in fruit. Corolla white, subcampanulate, 

 somewhat 5-angular, minutely pubescent outside, hairy inside towards the 

 base, finely ciliate at the rim, 5-lobed, with a pair of small green elevated spots 

 below and opposite each lobe, 3 lines across; its lobes acute, valvate-induplicate 

 in aestivation. Stamens 5 , alternate with the lobes of the corolla, attached to its 

 base, filaments hairy, subulate, 2 lines long; anthers 2-celled, ovate, notched at 

 both ends, versatile, extrorse, f line long. Ovary subovoid, 2-celled, white, about 

 I line long; its base yellowish, somewhat 5-angular; style filiform, ij lines 

 long; stigma capitate; ovules numerous, on thick axile placentas, anatropous. 

 Berry pendulous, globose, white, 5-6 lines in diameter, closely surrounded by 

 the leatherly and prickly calyx except at the star-shaped opening at the top; 

 peduncles thickened towards the apex, i inch or more long. Seeds numerous, 

 subreniform,flattened, J line long; testa pale-brown, concentrically favOso-rugose; 

 embryo coiled in the albumen. — FI. June — September. Hab. Shady place. 



My specimens of this plant are from Nerima and other localities near and 

 in Tokyo, and also from Nikko, Aizu, Yukawa (Kii), Mt. Hakusan, Sapporo, 

 Hakodate, &c. 



In the last number of this magazine I stated the difference between this 

 species and C, Watanahci; these two species being included, as I believe, in C. 

 japonica by Franchet and Savatier. I thought it might be well to give a 

 figure and description of the present species in this number of the magazine in 

 order to make the distinction between the two species clearer to the reader. 



