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base, entire or very minutely crenulate, thinly coriaceous, green and 
thinly pilose with depressed gilvous hairs but soon glabrate above, 
pale and pubescent on midrib and veins beneath, 3-5J cm. long, 2-4 
cm. wide ; midrib impressed as are veins above, prominent as are 
veins beneath, densely Yilloso-tomentose with, white hairs below as is 
the petiole ; veins about 3-5 on each side, pinnato-subflabellate, 
delicate ; veinlets finely seticnlated, impressed above, finely subbul- 
late between veinlets ; petiole about 4-7 mm. long, densely villoso- 
tomentose with white (gilvescent when dried) hairs usually as is the 
branchlet of this year under petioles. Bud ovoid ; pernlae broad, 
concave, viscid, fulvous, ciliated, deciduous, semiorbicular to ovate, 
the interior one longer and attaining about 11 mm. long. Flowers 
praecocious, usually 2-1 at the top of branchlets of last year, ap¬ 
proximate, pedicellate, directing laterally, bright purple, about 4-4：J 
cm. across ; pedicel usually stout, terete, | 一丄 3 mm. long, about 2 mm. 
across, viridescent, adpressedly tomentoso-pubescent with white or 
gilvous hairs. Calyx extremely short, 5-angnlato-lobed, ciliated. 
Corolla campanulato-infundibnliform, glabrous, scarcely deep-purple- 
maculate in face, the spots small, longitudinally linear to oblong, 
straight or nearly so ; tube short, thickisb, turbinate, about 6-10 mm. 
long ;limb subbilabiate ;lower 2lobes oblong, rounded at the apex, 
entire, about 25-28 mm. long, 13-15 mm. wide ; upper 3lobes broad¬ 
er, oval or elliptical-oval, or rarely orbiculate, rounded or subtruncato- 
rounded at the apex, entire, 23-25 mm. long, 15-19 mm. wide, the 
posterior one often slightly smaller. Stamens 10, decimate, unequal 
in length, posterior ones shorter than the corolla, but anterior ones 
more or less exserted. Style decimate, arcuate upwards, slightly 
shorter than the anterior stamens ; ovary narrowly ovoid, densely 
pubescent with sericeous hairs, about 4 mm. long. Capsule conico- 
cylindrical, curved, about |-1J cm. long, 5-sulcate, depressed-pubes¬ 
cent ;pedicel straight, pubescent, J-1J cm. long. 
Nom. Jap. TogoJcu-mitsubatsutsuji (nov. nom.). 
Hab. JAPAN, eastern, mountains. • 
Mowers in May. This species is very closely allied to Rhod• 
rhombicum Miq., which is very common on hills and mountains of 
western Japan. I have named this species in memory of Mr. Dzibe 
Wada, a member of Yokohama Botanical Society. 
(To be continued.) 
