PROFESSOR OLIVER OX PLAXTS FROM JAPA.N, ETC. 1G9 



bark, with two alternate 5-7 palminerveJ, cordate or ovate-rotun- 

 date, remotely serrate, acute (?), glabrous, exatipulate leaves Avith 

 a cordate or truucate-cordate base and very long petioles. Lamina 

 5-6 in., petiole 6-7 in. The branch terminates in a racemose 

 panicle 1 foot long, of numerous, pedicellate, depressed-globose, 

 shining, brownish black, dry, baccate, superior fruits 4-6 lin, in dia- 

 meter, marked on the top with the circular scar of the style. The 

 pedicels are articulated at the base, rather angular and obsoletely 

 pubescent. The fruit is one-celled with indefinite seeds appa- 

 rently distributed in about six parietal vertical series, but their 

 arrangement is obscured by a quantity of pulp. On dissecting 

 the pulp out of the thin pericarps, six woody rays are found pro- 

 jecting into the cavity at the base of the fruit, doubtless the 

 remains of the vascular cords supplying the placentae, and which 

 were embedded in the inner layer of the ovary previous to its 

 pulpy change. The seeds are ovoid-globose, smooth, semi-anatro- 

 pous with a crustaceous testa, albuminous, with the straight em- 

 bryo nearly equalling the fleshy albumen ; the flattened cotyledons 

 equalling the terete radicle. Any botanist visiting Japan would 

 do well to bear it in view. 



Sagittaria, an sp. nova? (§ Folia linearia; flos fertilis sessilis, fila- 

 mentis dilatatis.) Parva, fohis late linearibus sa^pius plus minus 

 falcatis apice angustatis ohtusiusculis, scapo simplici paucifloro (3-7- 

 floro), flore fertih solitarlo, floribus sterilibus pedicellatis. — Leaves 

 24-4 in. X 3-4 lin. Scape rather exceeding the leaves (4-6 in.). 

 Flowers nearly white. Pedicels of male fl. |-1 in. 



Nagasaki. 



Lilium? medeoloides, A. Gray. Oldham sends from thcK^orean 

 archipelago, a Liliiun which I take to be Prof Gray's plant. 



gmally 



The flowers are 



said to be " bright orange-red "; they are either solitary or two or 

 three together. The leaves of the single pseudo- verticil vary in 

 number from 3 to 14 or so, and are narrow-oval or oblauceolate, 

 often subacuminate, scarcely acute, or rather obtuse, and often 



narrowed to the base. 



Atieilema, near A. triquetrum, AVall. Nagasaki. 



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1500 



*' I'lowers nearly orange-yellow." I cannot find any difference 



an 



tifolia 



Nagasaki, 



grass 



