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subvar. Toosendan (Sieb. et Zucc.) Making. 



Melia Toosendan Sieb. et Zucc. in Abhandl. Akad. Muench. 

 IV. 2 (1845), p. 159; Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 211; Franch. et Say. 

 Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 75 ; Cas. DC. in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. I. 

 p. 453; D1EI.S in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. p. 426. 



M. japonica van Toosendan Making in Sched. Herb. Sc. 

 Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo. 



Leaflets entire, but often mixed with subcrenate ones. The 

 laciniation of the staminal-tube similar to that of var. japonica. 



Nom. Jap. To-sendan (meaning Chinese Melia). 



Hab. ProY. TOSA : Gyuko in Kochi, cultiYated (T. Making ! 

 June 1893, Nov. 1895, Sept. 1913). 



There exist a hybrid {subvar. intermedia Making) between 

 this and var. Japonica in neighbourhood of the tree of Toosendan 

 in the above-cited locality, and var. japonica is very common 



Daphne Miyabeana Making, sp. nov. 



Daphne chinensis var. £ore breviore Maxim, ex K. Miyabe. 



A small evergreen shrub, about 5 decim. high ; roots 

 ramose. Stem erect, laxly di- or sub-tri-chotomously ramose 

 above, terete, glabrous, castaneous above but fulvo-castaneous 

 below ; bark textile ; branches erect-patent or ascending, young 

 one of this year often puberulent. Leaves sparse, rather 

 dense, erect-patent or spreading, shortly petiolate, angustately 

 oblanceolate, gradually cuneato-attenuated to the petiole at the 

 base, acutish, or shortly acuminate or acuminate with an obtuse 

 or acutish tip at the apex, entire and very narrowly revolute 

 beneath when dried on margin, glabrous, smooth, shining above, 

 green and concolorous, chartaceo-coriaceous or membranaceo- 

 coriaceous, living during 3 years on the stem, about 4-9 cm. 

 long, 9—23 mm. wide ; midrib prominent beneath ; veins incon- 

 spicuous superficially, delicate, several on each side, erect-patent ; 

 veinlets fine, invisible superficially ; petiole 3-10 mm. long, gla- 

 brous. Inflorescence solitary and terminal at the top of the 

 branchlets of this year, several-subnumerous-flowered, peduncled, 



