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THE JOURNAL OF JAPANESE BOTANY. 
[Yol.T. No. 1. 
Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovato-elliptical, ovato-lanceolate or lanceo¬ 
late, long-attenuato-acuminate at the apex, obtuse at the base, in¬ 
cumbent-serrulated with papillose-tipped teeth, membranaceous, 
subconcolorous (very slightly paler beneath), adpressedly covered 
with stellate pale hairs on the upper surface, but glabrous or 
t subgiabrons in the basal ones of the branchlets, about 2-5J cm. long 
and 1-2J cm. broad in flower; midrib prominent beneath, impressed 
above when fresh; veins about 3-5 on each side, ascending from the 
lower portion. Panicnlated-cjme terminating the foliiferons short 
branchlet of this year, cernnons, snbloosely subm^tny-flowered, 
pednncled, 1J-4J cm. long; racliis gracile, glabrous, light gre*en often 
shaded with purple as are the pedicels; bracts narrowly linear, 
acuminate, caducous, membranaceous, light green and shaded with 
purple, attaining about 6 mm. long. Mower small, pedicellate, 5- 
11J mm. across; pedicels opposite, erect-patent, often with a minute 
subulate bracteole, 1J-6 mm. long. Calyx-segments 5, erect-patent, 
ovato-deltoid, shortly acuminate, entire, one-nerved, concave within, 
deciduous, glabrous, - light green and often shaded with purple, or 
sometimes, purplish on margin, 2-2J mm. long*. Petals 5, patent, 
often recurved or reyolute dorsally 011 margin, broadly ovate, obtuse, 
entire, white, or white and vindescent at the base, or light green 
but broadly white towards the both, margins, glabrous internally, 
adpressedlj covered with white stellate hairs dorsally, marked with 
2 vertical folded traces in the middle portion of the both sides, and 
the outside portion of the trace-line thinner and more or less 
crispate, 2^-6 mm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, decianous. Stamens 10, 
inserted on margin of the epigynous disk, free, erect then erect- 
patent, slightly exserted, shorter than the petals, introrse, opposite 
sepalous ö longer; filament compressed, subulato-rectangular-cuneate 
or subnlato-cnneate with an obscure or obvious or subhastate obtuse 
angle above the middle on each edge, glabrous, white or yiridesent, 
about l|-3 mm. long in the oppositisepalous 5, 1—2 mm. long in the 
oppositipetalons 5; antlier yellow or greenish-yellow ， oval-ovate, 
shortly bifid at the apex, coraate at the base, scantily with stellate 
white hairs, 1-1J mm. long; anther-cells oblong. Ovary inferior, 
shortly turbinate ， often obscurely 3-4-fnrrowed below, 1J-1| mm. 
long, about 2 mm. across, deep green and sometimes shaaea with 
purpie 3 smooth and thinly with adpressed stellate white hairs, 3- 
celled, thickly walled, with many minute ovules on the projecting thick 
placentas; epigynous aisle truncate, annular, glabrous, deep-green; 
styles 3-4, erect, about equalling the stamens in height, unequal 
in length, stout-filiform, glabrous, white above and viridescent below; 
stigma terminal, not tmek, obtuse or obtusely sliort-tapering. 
