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terete, obscurely cariuate dorsallj towards the top, closely 

 striate, coriaceous, light green, glabrous, but spreadingly 

 villoso-ciliated on margin (cilia long and dense and manifest 

 towards the mouth), villoso-tomentose with white long hairs 

 at the base, auricles at the mouth radiato-fimbriate with long 

 sette which attain about 12-mm. long. Flower unknown. 

 Norn. Jap. Jbbo-zasa (nov.). 



Hab. Prov. BITCHU : Savodani in J6b6-g6ri (T. Making ! 

 August 1913). 



A rare bamboo. It is allied to Sasa paniculata Making 

 ET Shibata, but the former differs from the latter in having 

 the erect and much slender culm, thinner and narrower leaves, 

 manifestly fimbriate mouth-auricles, and the vsheath densely 

 villoso-tomentose at the base. It is now only known growing 

 in the above-cited locality. 



Solauum lyratum Thunb. F1. Jap. p. 92. 

 Solatium Dulcamara van lyrata Sieb. et Zucc. in Abhand. 

 Akad. Muench. IV. 3, p. 147. 



var. xanthocarpum Making, var. nov. 



Berry spherical, yellow. 



Nom. Jap. Kimi-no-hiyodorijbgo. 



Hab. Prov. BIZEN (Naojiro Watanabe ! 1913). 



Very rare. The type has the sphterical scarlet berry. 



Carpinus Tanakaeana Making, sp. nov. 



Shrubby, or small tree, 'attaining 7m. height; branches 

 often cinereous on account of the attachment of the various 

 lichenes ; branchlets dense and gracile, glabrous, but adpressed- 

 villoso-pubescent with white hairs when young, fuligineo-casta- 

 neous but badio-ferruginous above, dispersedly verruculose with 

 minute lenticels. Leaves small, very dense, deciduous, alter- 

 nate, petiolate, subcoriaceo-chartaceous, ovate, elliptical-ovate, 

 oblong-ovate, acute or shortly acuminate, with a mucronato- 

 acute tip at the apex, obtuse or rounded towards the base and 

 usually subcordate at the very base, mucronately duplicato-ser- 



