71 



Obs. Haec species ad subgenus Covola Briq. l) pertinere videtur, mag- 

 nitudine icon em Linumfeam-' sub nomine jap.»uieum haru-no- 



Plantse Japonenses novae vel minus cognitse. 



(Continued from the p. 64) 

 By 



T. Makino, 



Assistant of Botany in the Science College, 

 Imperial University, Tokyo. 



Pyrus (Sorbus) Matsumurana sp. nov. 



Small tree ; branches darker-brown, young ones rusty-brown when 

 dried, glabrous, with light leather-coloured sparsely distributed lenti- 

 cells; buds glabrous, ciliated along the margins of scales. Leaves 

 alternate, spreading, impari-pinnate, deciduous; stipules inserted at the 

 base of petioles, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, sometimes 

 acinaciform with an oblique short-acuminate tip, entire or occasionally 

 serrulate ; the common petiole l|-4 cm long, slender, smooth, thick at 

 the base and hairy at the axil; the rachis elongated, glabrous but 

 villose at the upper surface of nodes, slenderly canaliculate above; 

 leaflets 4-5-sometimes 6-jugate, erect-patent, moderately apart, very 

 shortly petioluled but sessile in superior ones, manifestly petioluled at 

 the odd one, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, moreover obovate-lanceolate 

 or obovate-oblong, abruptly and shortly acuminate, somewhat unequal ly 



them in lower margins, rather thin in the texture, green above, glauc- 



1) Die natiirl. Pflanzenf. Labiate p. 28 



2) Somoku.zuset.su vol. I tab. 29. 



