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arcuate above, reaching to the apex of teeth, about 6-8 on each 
side, the lower ones (except the lowest one) with a few second 
veins on the under side above; main veinlets transverse between 
the veins, delicate, prominent beneath, with reticulated small not 
conspicuous veinlets between them; petiole densely covered with 
stellate pale-fulvous hairs, 5-15 mm. long. Alabastra 3 on the top of 
the axillary short common peduncle，very densely covered with, fulvous 
stellate hairs as well as the peduncle, which has caducous small 
bracts; bracteoles under the alabastra rotund and concave. 
Nom. Jap. Atetsu-mansaJcu (nov.). 
Hab. Prov. BITCHÜ : Mt. Knrokami near Niimi in Atetsu-gori 
(T. Makino I Aug. 5,1914). 
This species differs from Hamamelis japönica Sieb, et Zucc. by 
having the glaucous leaves, which are wholly covered with hairs. 
Hamamelis obtusata (Matsum.) Marino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, 
XXVII. (1913), p.150. 
forma flayo-purpurascens Makino, nov. 
Branches terete, griseo-avellaneous, dispersed with punctate 
lenticels. Leaves rhombeo-oboyato-oroicular or rhombeo-oval, broad¬ 
ly cnneate below. Petals narrower,1§ mm. wide in the middle 
portion, slightly , broader in the lower, yellow but pnrpurascent and 
deeper-coloured veined towards the lower portion gradually. 
Nom. Jap. Nishiki-mansaku (nov.). 
Hab. JAPAN, central? (T. Marino ! March 1916). 
Shortia soldanelloides (Sieb, et Zucc.) Makino in Bot. Mag., 
Tokyo, XXI. (1907), p. 31. 
Schizocodon soldanelloides Sieb, et Zucc. in Abli. Akad. Muench. 
III. p. 725, tab. 2, .fig.1. 
Yar. magna Makino, nov. var. 
Rhizome stout, long-creeping, ramose, rooting. Leaves long- 
petiolate, orbicnlate, cordate at the base, snbtrnncato-retnse with 
an acute depressed-deltoid tooth at the apex, numerously dentate 
on margins with mucronate depressed-deltoid teeth, coriaceous ， 
attaining about 11 cm. long, 11 1 cm. broad. Flowers often sub- 
panicnlated, long-scapose, about 17-18 mm. long, lilac or rarely pale- 
lilac. 
Nom. Jap. O-iwaJcagami. 
Hob. Prov. ÖMI (T. Makino!). 
This is not uncommon on hills of the the central Japan. 
{To be continued.) 
