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often connate with the neighbouring one, depressed-orbicular, 

 thick, concave, appressed to the ovary but free from it, scantily 

 glanduloso-ciliated, glabrous, green, much shorter than the 

 ovary and 1 mm. or a little more long. Calyx crowned on 

 the ovarj^ and shorter than it, about 1 mm. long, green ; seg- 

 ments 5, erect-patent, lanceolato-subulate, acuminate, entire 

 and scantily glanduloso-ciliated. Corolla glabrous externally, 

 pilose at the throat and above and below it internally, thinly 

 short-pilose and glandular-hairy on the face, not ciliated, deeply 

 2-lipped ; lip at length reflexed ; upper lip much broad, oval- 

 subsquare, shortly 4-lobate ; lobes shortly ovato-oval, rounded 

 at the apex, often minutely crenulated ; lower lip ligulate, 

 rounded at the apex ; tube short, as long as the lip, en- 

 larged above, with a proportionally large semispaerical gibber 

 above the base in front ; gibber thickish-walled, minutely gland- 

 ulose within. Stamens 5, exserted; filament subulato-filiform, 

 glabrous but pilose at the base ; anther linear, dorsifixed below 

 the middle. Style slightly shorter than the stamens, subad- 

 pressed pubescent ; stigma capitate. Ovaries erect or erect- 

 patent, ovoid-oval, entirely to basally connate, smooth, green, 

 1^-1 1 mm. long, 3-celled ; ovules 5 in. each cell, pendulous, 

 obovate, compressed. Berry scarlet ? Flowers in May-June. 

 Nom. Jap. Yama-hyotamboku (nov.). 



Hab. Prov. KII (Herb.! Imp. Mus. Tokyo, 1877, No. 11437); 

 Prov. MIKAWA (G. Nagura !) ; Prov. BIZEN : Shidzutani (T. 

 Making ! Aug. 1906) ; Prov. HIZEN : Mt. Unzen (M. Yama- 

 sAKi ! June 2, 1907, July 1909 ; T. Making ! 1908). 



A species cames nearest to Lonicera Mocbidzukiana Making, 

 but the branches much gracile, leaves much shorter smaller 

 and thinner, and flower not tinged with rose. It grows on 

 hills and mountains in the central and western Japan. I have 

 named this new species in dedication to Mr. Shigeharu Nomura, 

 the Manager of the Imperial Museum, Tokyo. 



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

 A deciduous shrub, densely ramose ; branches often divari- 

 cate or erect-patent, slender, terete, glabrous, delicately striate, 



