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ones, minutely hispidulous in front. Flowers small, white and 

 often tinged with purple, slightly larger in the outer ones, 

 about 2-3 mm. across. Calyx very short, 5-toothed ; teeth 

 remote, deltoid or deltoid-subulate, acute, persistent. Petals 

 5, patent, obcordate with an incurved deltoid-subulate tip, 

 broadly cuneate towards the base, deciduous. Stamens 5, at 

 first inflexed, longer than the petals ; filament stout-filiform, in- 

 curved-spreading, tapering at the apex ; anther oval, subdidy- 

 mous, bifid at the apex, basifixed, purpurascent, J-f mm. long 

 with oblong anther-cells. Ovary oval, obtusely 10-ridgcd and 

 delicately 10-sulcate longitudinally, glabrous, viridescent, about 

 1-1^ mm. long. Epigynous disk thick, convex, submarginate, 

 obtusely subangulate on margin, halves semiorbicular. Styles 

 2, distinct, erect, slightly divergent, terete, 1 mm. long ; stigma 

 thickish, capitate. Cremocarp (immature) with the persistent 

 calyx disk and recurvo-divergent styles at the top, elliptical- 

 oblong, terete and subthickly narrow-alate on both margins, 

 equally and closely depresso-elevato-3-ridged longitudinally on 

 both faces, glabrous, about 3 mm. long; vittte 6 to a mericarp, 

 each 1 to the dorsal 4 valleculae and 2 to the commisure. 

 Norn. Jap. Uhadake-ninjin (T. Making). 



Hab. Prov. BUNCO: Mr. Uba-dake, summit (T. Making! 

 August 24, 1911). 



Cissus Yoshimurai Making in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XXIV. 

 (1910), p. 233. 



Cyme long-ped uncled, di- or sometimes tri-chotomous with 

 the erect-patent 1st branches, shorter than the leaves, subnu- 

 merous-flowered ; bracts minute, fulvous; peduncle about 3-5^ 

 cm. long in flower. Flower small, about 7 mm. in diameter, 

 flavo-viridescent, pedicellate; pedicel about 3-5 mm. long, nearly 

 glabrous, terete, thick and depressed-obconical at the top- 

 Calyx obsolete, obscurely 4-angulato-dentiform. Petals 4, pa- 

 tent, recurved, thickish, broadly ovate, angulate-tipped apex (the 

 tip about right-angle) at the apex, entire, glabrous and slightly 

 concave internally, pulvereo-puberulent dorsally, subcuculiform 



