ON A NEW JAPANESE SPECIES OF BALANOPHORA. 193 
On a Species of Balanophora nee Japanese Flora. 
By Toxvuraro Ind, F.L.S. 
[Read 16th June, 1887.] 
(PrarE V. figs. 5-8.) 
Our knowledge of the flora of Japan has progressed siuce the 
publieation of the conjoint work of MM. Franchet and Savatier, 
by the continued researches of many men of science, both in the 
west and in the east, but more especially by the laborious studies 
of that competent authority on the Eastern Asiatic Flora, Dr. 
C. J. Maximowicz of St. Petersburg. Under these circumstances, 
all that remains requisite is the compilation of a complete flora of 
Japan in some such form as Bentham’s ‘Flora Hongkongensis,’ 
or Sir J. D. Hooker’s ‘Flora of British India’ (the latter an 
elaborate work still in course of publication), which is not an 
easy task to undertake. With no such complete flora at present, 
botanists may welcome even one fact towards our knowledge 
of the flora of J. apan, if of such a nature as to make known more 
or less striking features in the geographical distribution of plants. 
Having taken great interest in the numerous papers which have 
lately appeared on the debated Order Balanophores, among which 
I may mention Dr. E. Zimmermann’s “ Beitrag zur Kenntniss 
der Anatomie der Helosis guyanensis” (Flora, 1886), Dr. H. 
Trimen’s “ Notes on Balanophora Thwaitesii,’ Eichl. (Journ. 
Linn. Soc., Bot. vol. xxii. 1886, p. 330), and especially the note- 
worthy memoir on new species of Balanophora and Thonningia by 
Mr. W. Fawcett (Trans. Linn. Soc., Bot. ser. 2, vol. ii. 1886, p. 233), 
I am induced to make a few statements, of a more or less imper- 
fect character, on the occurrence of a plant in Japan belonging 
to this remarkable Order, which had been previously unnoticed 
by European botanists, since I have paid special attention to it 
for some years, in order to' come to a definite conclusion. 
I have not, however, made any previous attempt to publish 
my remarks on this subject, not only from the scantiness of 
materials, but also because I wished to wait until my obser- 
vations were complete, and, if possible, at the same time to take 
some notice of the observation of certain anatomical as well as 
Physiological characters of this interesting organism. 
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