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Gardneria multiflora Makino Notes on Jap. PL XV. in Bot. 

 Mag., Tokyo, VI. 1892, p. 53. 



Glabrous voluble shrub. >Stem slender, cylindrical, smooth, branching, 

 internodes shorter or longer than leaves. Leaves opposite, spreading, 

 shortly petioled, angustato-lanceolate, acuminate, gradually attenuated be- 

 low, entire and more or less sub-repand, char taceo- coriaceous, deep-green 

 above, paler beneath, 4^-14| cm. long, IJ-3§ cm. broad ; midrib slender, 

 prominent beneath ; veins delicate, about 6-9 on each side, loose, spread- 

 ing and at last connect with, above one ; veinlets not conspicuous ; petiole 

 J-l-J cm. long, cylindrical, often curved. Cyme axillary, more or less 

 nutant, much shorter than the leaves but longer than the petiole, 2- 

 2^ cm. long, with glabrous gracile peduncle, divaricately trichotomons or 

 often again di- or trichotomous with glabrous gracile pedicels ; bract minute, 

 subulate, ciliated. Flower small, yellow, 12-13 mm. across, conico-cylin- 

 drical in bud, often punctate externally. Sepals 5, minute, unequal in 

 gize, imbricated, thick, orbicular, glabrous, but ciliated on the margin, 1^- 

 1J mm. long, Corolla deeply 5-parted, rotate, patent ; tube equalling 

 the calyx in length ; lobes valvate in bud, narrowly lanceolate, acute, 

 entire, thick, longitudinally 2-carinate on the internal margins, glabrous 

 externally and internally, 5J-6 mm. long, l|-2 mm. broad. Stamens 5, 

 inserted on the corolla-tube, erect, free and converging (not connate); fila- 

 ment very short ; anthers in an ovate-cylindrical, yellow, introrse, lanceo- 

 late attenuated above with an acutish tip, trigonous, bifid at the base, 

 3 J mm. long, the connective glabrous. Ovary equal to the calyx in height, 

 minute, ovato-globose, glabrous ; style erect, filiform, glabrous, 5-6 mm. 

 long, slightly exceed the anther ; stigma elliptical, scarcely thick, obscurely 

 2-lobed, minutely hairy. Berry scarlet. 



Hob. Prov. Bitchu : Onaga in Takakura-mura, Kawakami-gori, in 

 forest on the side of the Kiver Takayana (Zensuhe Yoshinol July 2, 1901); 

 Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, Bot. Gard. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ., cult (Herb. ! Sc. 

 Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, July 10, 1880 ; T. Makino ! July 10, 1891, Aug. 

 11, 1901). 



This species is closely allied to the British-Indian Gardneria ova to 

 Wall. ; but the leaves are more angustate, the flower 5-merous and 5- 

 androus, the corolla-lobes more angustate and acute, and the anthers free 

 although they are convergent. It differs also from G. nutans Sieb. 

 et Zucc, which has the single- (? rarely 2-3-) flowered peduncle, white 

 flowers, and more inconspicuous-veined leaves. It is growing wild in the 

 province of Bitchu, as quoted above; Yoshino's specimen which was kindly 



