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erect ; peduncle erect, puberuleiit, remaining during several years 

 on stem, 3-13 mm. long. Flowers capitate, small, 5-6 mm. 

 long, very shortly pedicellate, white; pedicel puberulent, 1-3 mm. 

 long. Perigone glabrous ; limb 4-divided, patent, 5 mm. across ; 

 segment ovate, acute or obtuse at the apex, entire, 3-nerved, 

 the lateral nerves with a few venules outside; tube oblong- 

 cylindrical, about 2 mm. in diameter, longitudinally 8-nerved. 

 Stamens 8, inserted on the upper portion of the perigone-tube, 

 the superior 4 slightly exserted beyond the throat ; filament ex- 

 tremely short ; anther linear-oblong, 1mm. or less long. Ovary 

 ellipsoid, glabrous, smooth, very shortly stipitate, about 2| mm. 

 long ; stigma sessile, rounded, dilated. Berry oval, glabrous, 

 smooth, about 8 mm. across, succulent, scarlet when mature. 

 Seed ovoid, acutish at the apex, smooth, 4 mm. across. 



Nom. Jap. Karasu-shikimi, Yama-sbikimi. 



Hab. JAPAN : Hokkaido and northern Honshu. 



This boreal species bears an outward appearance to Daphne 

 kiusiana MiQ. of the central and southern Japan, but the latter 

 differs from my species by having the larger broader and thicker 

 leaves, larger flowers, pubescent perigone-tube, and inflorescence 

 terminating the branchlets of the last year. 



I have named this new species in dedication to Prof. Dr. 

 KiNGO MiYABE of the Tohoku Imperial University of Sapporo 

 Hokkaido. 



(To be contmued.) 



