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leaves with very minute dispersed glands, and glanduloso- 

 ciliated bracteoles. I have named in memory of Mr. Nao- 

 YOSHi MocHiDZUKi of the Nikko Botanic Garden, Sc. Coll. Imp. 

 Univ. of Tokyo. 



Lonicera Nomurana Making, sp. nov. (Sect. Isika.) 



A small deciduous shrub ; branches terete, pale-avellaneous 

 or pale-gilvous ; branchlets gracile, glabrous, distinctly tetra- 

 gonous with 4> obtuse marginal edges, pale-gilvous or avellaneous, 

 young one green, smooth, glabrous ; perulas at the base of 

 branchlets marcescent, ad pressed, imbricated, scantily reflexo- 

 ciliated, pale-avellaneous, membranaceous, external ones small, 

 ovato-deltoid, but deltoid in the basal ones, obtuse or acutish, 

 the middle ones narrowly ovate, obtuse, the inner ones ovato- 

 oblong, acute, the uppermost ones longer and often transformed 

 into the' small leaves. Bud small, subulate, straight, gla- 

 brous. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate, ovato-elliptical, 

 elliptico-oblong or oblong-lanceolate sometimes subrhombic- 

 ovate, mucronato- obtuse or acute at the apex, obtuse obtuso- 

 rounded or rounded at the base, entire and not ciliated on 

 margin, firmely membranaceous, glabrous above, patently pilosu- 

 late with white fine hairs on the midrib and veins and some- 

 times veinlets near the midrib beneath, dispersedly ver\^ minutely 

 punctulate under lens, 1-5| cm. long, 8—25 cm. wide ; midrib 

 prominent beneath ; veins 5-9 on each side, erect-patent, arcuate 

 upwards, delicate, prominent beneath ; veinlets finely elevato- 

 reticulated beneath ; petiole semiterete, canaliculated in front, 

 glabrous, 2-6 mm. long. Pedicels axillarj', opposite, usually 

 at the top of branchlets of this year or sometimes in the axils 

 of the leaves next the top, erect-patent, substout, straight or 

 arcuate, glabrous, compressed, subcanaliculated in front with 

 2 edges, somewhat enlarged above, 8-13 mm. long ; bracts 

 minute, opposite, erectpatently patent, ovato subulate or deltoid- 

 subulate, or sometimes ovate, acuminate acute or sometimes 

 obtuse, concave, entire, eglandular, mm. long. Flowers 



geminate, small, about 1 cm. long, white (?); bracteoles opposite. 



