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The leaves are distinguished by the margins changing into white towards the autumn. Forma minor Marino. Dwarf, attaining about 27 cm. in height. Leaves much smaller, 3-14 cm. long, 8-32 mm. wide ; veins 2-7 on each side. Bambusa albo-inarginata forma minor Makino in Description des Produits forestiers envoyes a l'Exposition uni.verselle de 1900 a Paris par lc Ministere de l'Agrieulture et du Commerce. Nom. Jap. Ko-kuma-zasa. .dab. Prov. MIND: Kusafuka, cult. (7. Marino ! Aug. 1899) ; Prov. MUSASHI: Tokyo ('1'. Marino ! March 1900). This formY~is usually planted in gardens.

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P1ante ~Japonenses novie vetl minus cogniti e. (continued from p. 12.) By T. Ma ki no, Assistantof Botanyin theScience College, ImperialUniversity, Tokyo.

Pittosporum illicioides Marino in Botan. Magaz.,Tokyo, XIV, p. 31. An evergeen shrub, ramose, attaining about 2 m, in height. Branches and branchlets ver:ticillate,terete, labrous, drab-fulvous but drab-cinereous in branchlets, thinly dispersed with inconspicuous minute and punctate lenticels, leafy towards the apex. Winter-bud small, ovate, situated on the extremity of branchlet, solitary or about 2--5 closely placed, terminal or axillary, dark-brown ; scales small, imbricated, ovate or ovato-deltoid or deltoid-subulate, acute, herbr~ceo-coriaceous,labrous except the very minutely ciliated margin or more or less puberulent towards the margin. Leaves spreading, sparse, but those of nodes and extremities of branchlets es- pecially approximate and falsely verticillate, petiolate, obovato-lanceolate, cuneate towards the base and gradually attenuated to the petiole, shortly and more or less abruptly acuminate at the apex with a n acute tip, entire and undulate on the margin, subcoriaceous,glabrous, green above, pallid beneath, 4-13 cm, long, 2-5 cm, broad ; midrib prominent beneath ; 33 veins erect-patent or patulous, more or less close-placed one another, usually more or less arcuate upwards ; veinlets finely anastomosing and finely im- 1)ressed on the upper surface, but subinconspicuous underneath ; petiole 5--16mm. long, glabrous, semiterete, flat in front. Inflorescence umbellate on the top of the branehlet of last year, shorter than the leaves ; pedicel about 1--5 in number, f liforin, erect-patent in the surroundings, about 2--3cm. long. Flower about S mm. long, yellow. Calyx 5-sepaled, yellowish- viridescent ; sepals erect, ovato-subulate, somewhat unequal in size. Corolla 5--petaled, muchm exserted, tubuloso-campanulate ; petals narrow, revolute above. Stamens 5, not exserted, erect ; filament subulato-filifornm; anther deltoid-lanceolate, rufous-yellow. Ovary 1, ovato- elliptical, 3-or 4-carpellary, green ; style erect, about equal to the ovary in length ; stigma small, capitate. C apsule trigonous-globose, about 9--13 mm. long, very shortly stipellate at the base, with a short erect persistent style on the top, glabrous, 3- or 4-valved, many-seeded ; carpels ligneous, horizontally and loculicidally dehiscent, ovate with separated style on time top, vertically placentiferous in the centre, dark-brown when dried externally but yellowish-fulvous and viscous within. Seed red, oval or elliptical, more or less compressed, 3---5mm. long, with a short punicle ; testa thin, smooth ; albumen copious, (tense and fleshy ; embryo very minute. Fl. May. Nom. Jap. Koyasu-no-ki. flab. Prov. HAn1nA: Kishima-mura in Ibo-gori (U. Ouye ! Feb. 1900). Unquestionably a rare species growing some districts of the south- western part of the main-land of Japan ; from its external resemblance to Illicium anlsatum Finn., after Mr. ZTichi Ouye it has the local name of Hime-shikibu (i. e. Illicium anisatum minor) in the province of Harima. The closest ally of this species appears to me to be Pitlosporum pauciflorum hook. et Arii., a Chinese plant. I am greatly indebted to Mr. Y. Yabe for allowing me to examine the living specimens sent to him by Mr. U. ouye. Koyasu-no-1 i in Kaibara's Yamuato-Honzo vol. XII, is a different plant, and Lnvlera prcecox Llume is also sometimes called so.

AIlex (Prinos) Nemotoi Marino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XIV. p. 32. shrub, Branchlet terete, umber, thinly dispersed with minute punctate lenticels, the young one puberulent. Leaves sparse, petiolate, obovato-oblong or oblong, acute at bath ends, densely mucronato-crenulato-serrulate, thickly membranaceous, more or less velutmous-puberulent above, pubeseemitbeneath (the pubescence more obvious on the midrib and veins), 3--71 cm, long, .11--34 cm, wide, deciduous ; midrib slender, impressed above, prominent b eneath ; veins 4-7 on each side, erect-patent or patulous somewhat arcuate upwards, impressed above, prominent beneath ; veinlets loose, not conspicuous, impressed above ; petiole narrow, 5-9 mm. long, canaliculate in front, pubescent. C yme (~? ) 1--3-flowered, shortly peduncled ; pedicels shorter than the drupe, narrow, puberulent as is the peduncle ; bracts a few on the top of the peduncle, very minute, deltoid, squamiform. Flower...... l.)rupe glohose, scarlet, smooth, 6 mm. in each way, accompanied 4 persistent sepals which are minute broadly ovato-del told ciliated-margined and slightly 34

thick ; pyrenre , 3 iurliL long, ci•itstacet)tds,hale-stranlineou~, with a convex and smoothh back. None. Jap. Obe-Ume1Ro!1o1~i(T. Xlakino note. ilov.). Bob. Prov. Jw Asxlno : Fukushima (K Nemoto ! Oct 2:1_,1557) A sI ecies in the northern-part of the main.-lan(l of Japan ; it s very closely al liOd t~~Ile)~ijT)j)Oi1/C(I i1Iakino, l)ut difrs ft in it chiefly in the serration and pixbesee1iceof its leaves. It has s(>nle resemblance to Ilex ~',iel,old i Miq., but is stouter. I have tianlec1 it in huffier of Nr. hwanri Nemoto, who has kindly communicntecl to me a specimen.

Ilex (I'rinos) nipponica Mahino in Bot Mag., Tokyo, XI V. p. A small tree (after Suekichi Goto). Branchlet terete, more or less flextiotis, glabrous, but often more or less thinly puberulent towards the extremity, umber or fulvous-umber, thinly dispersed with minute punctatc lenticels. Leaves deciduous, petiolate, sparse, but approximate on shortened branchiets, obovato-oblong or obovato-lanceolate, acute or obtuse at the apex, euneate towards the base, 3-8 cm. long, 13-4 cm. broad, incumbent- mucronato-crenate except the very base which is entire, menibranaceous, green and extremely thinly scabro-puberulent towards the midrib above, more or less pallid and glabrous but thinly pubescent along the midrib and veins below beneath ; midrib prominent beneath and slightly impressed above ; veins prominent beneath, 4-7 on each side, erect-patent, arcuate upwards ; veinlets loose, impressed above; petiole nearly glabrous but puberulent in canaliculate front, 4-10 mm, long. Cyme (.) sessile bearing a pedicel, or shortly peduncled bearing 1--3 pedicels ; pedicel shightly shorter than the drupe, minutely puberulent ; bracts a few on the top of the peduncle, very minute, deltoid, squarniform. Flower ...... Drupe 1-2 to a cyme, globose, about G mm, in each way, scarlet, smooth, accompanied 4 persistent sepals broadly deltoid-ovate ciliated-margined and more or less thick ; pyren~e 5, crustaceous, pale-stramineous, 2 mm. long, with a convex and smooth back. Nom. Jap. ]Uiyanma-omemodol~i (T. Makino non1. nov.). flab. Prov. SHINANO: Kiso '(S. GotO! Sept. 23, 1899). This species more or less comes near Ilex Si ehol.cl i Mn i , but the branches are stouter and the leaves much larger.

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