A New Jfapanese Sped がが Vi!!ebrune も 
By 
畑， 沒 hiraL 
Villebrunea pedunculata ， sp. iiov. 
Jap. name, 11 adonoki. 
(Plat せ TV.) 
A large shrub， attaining to the height of 4 or 5 met パ .s and the dkimettir 
of 10 c.m., の y ramose; 。 branch (巧 slemlei.， of a brown color, at fiirst cove が d 
with brown to men turn, a む'、、 r wards glabrous. Leaves ovate-lanceolate or 
ob!ong-la 打 ceokte, acuminate, ere 打 ate except the base, with rough scattered 
Imh.s above, petiolate, 6-12 c.m. long, 2 • り - 4.5 e.rn. broad ; petioles as well as 
the three larger nerves on the under surface of tae leaf hispid. Female heads 
longly peduncu]at ち witk 8 — 12 minute flowers; peduncles simple or forked, 
7 c.m. long, hispid. Male flower not yet examined. Fruits ovate, some- 
what laterally com})r がが d and gibbous at the base, and attached 打户 ar the 
ve 打 か ; il margin of the somewhat kidney づ kaped succulent dis に . 
Habitat : Osumi, Satsuma, Tosa (T. M •' ふ ino, 巧 84), Loochu (A. Tashiro, 
1887). 
In the summer of 1893, during a Lotanical excui*sioii to Knisliin, I 
bad the opportunity to collect a む intmg specime 凸 of this plant at the Cape 
of Sat も in the semth の .n e 王 かが nity of Osumi province, where it forms 
