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4-19 mm. long, 3-10 mm. wide ; midrib prominent beneath ; 

 veins 3-6 on each side, delicate, erect-patent, conspicuous 

 beneath; veinlets anastomotic between veins, impressed on 

 the upper surface; petiole canaliculate in front, thinly and 

 antrorsely subadpressed-puberulent, 1-2^ mm. long. Peduncles 

 opposite, cernuous, long, exceeding the leaves, 10 mm. or 

 more long but attaining 19 mm. in fruit, capillary, compressed, 

 glabrous, purplish ; bracts opposite, spreading, curved up- 

 wards, linear, acuminate with an acute or obtuse tip at the 

 apex, entire, quite glabrous, strongly 1-nerved, 3^-4 mm. long. 

 Flowers geminate ; bracteoles minute, l-% mm. long, oval, 

 nearly wholly connate with the neighbouring one and retuso- 

 emarginate at the apex, less broad than Imra. in the connate 

 one, entire, thick, glabrous, viridescent, nearly wholly adnate 

 to the very base of the ovaries, persistent. Calyx very 

 short, 1 mm. across, viridescent, glabrous, persistent ; limb 



patent, crenato-lobed. Corolla Stamens Style 



Ovaries erect-patent, short-ovoid, very shortly attenuated at 

 the apex, very slightly connate only at the very base, smooth, 

 glabrous, 2-2^ mm. long, li-lfmm. across, viridescent, 

 2-celled, rather thinly walled, with a thin dissepiment ; ovules 

 4 in each cell, pendulous, oval or oval-elliptical, very compress- 

 ed, marginate, |-f mm. long. Berries geminate, not connate 

 except the very base, globose or oval-globose, mm. across, 

 scarlet, succulent, smooth, glabrous, nutant ; seeds about 3-5 

 to a berry, oval or elliptical, compressed, smooth and nitid, 

 21-3 mm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Kogome-hybtamhoku (nov.). 



Hab. Prov. SURUGA : Mt. Arakawa-dake in Abe-gori (Reizo 

 KoNO ! August 1913). 



A distinct alpine species with the intricate branches and 

 very small leaves ; the leaves have a superficial appearance like 

 those of Yaccinium uliginosum LiNx. in Ericacex. 



{To be continued.) 



