PROFESSOR, OMYEK OX PLANTS FROM JAPAN, ETC. 163 



JN'otes upon a few of the Plants collected, chiefly near Nagasaki, 

 Japan, and in the Islands of the Korean archipelago, in the 

 years 1862-63, by Mr. Eichard Olduam, late Botanical Col- 

 lector attached to the Eoyal Gardens, Kew. By Professor 

 Ohi^jiy Keeper of the Herbarium and Library, Kew. 



[Read Dec. 15, 1864.] 



Having recently had the ai-runglug and distributing of the Ja- 

 panese and Korean archipelago collections sent home by Mr. 

 Oldham, my attention has been attracted by several plants which 

 it contained of special interest, either undescribed species, or 

 belonging to genera new to the Japanese Islands. As might 

 have been expected, there are amongst them a few more Hima- 

 layan species now first added to the Japanese flora ; one or two 

 of these belonging to the number which turn up again in the 

 Atlantic States,* 



The species of many genera which have not been well mono- 

 graphed of late, or which, from other causes, required more time 

 for their accurate discrimination than could be afforded, were dis- 

 tributed simply imdor the generic name and catalogue-number. 

 These will no doubt be included in the 'Flora of Japan' upon which 

 M. Maximowicz is at present engaged, and for which work he has 

 himself collected a very large amount of material. 



Much credit is due to Mr. Oldham for the careful selection of 

 his specimens, and their good state of preservation, 



Sabia. A species differing from any described in the ' Flora 

 Indica ' of Drs. Hooker and Thomson, with yellow flowers in fas- 

 cicles of two or three, from the axils of fallen leaves, was sent 

 from IN'agasaki in a previous collection arranged by Mr. Black, 

 who rightly noted it as a distinct species. Its fully developed 

 leaves are wanting, so that I cannot give a diagnosis at present. 



Geum japonicum, Thunb., Nagasaki. I cannot refer the plant 

 ^entto G. stnctum, Ait., which species, however, occurs in Japan. 

 At is distributed, without doubt, under Thunberg's name. It differs 

 from G. stnctum principally in its stem-leaves, which are never 

 sharply cut. It may be diagnosed thus : — 



G. caule flexuoso, foliis petiolatis trifoliolatis, foliolis cuiieato-obovatis, 

 vel uoifoliolatis e basi truncata v. late cuneata rotundato-ovatis ob- 



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