306 MR. R. IRWIN LYNCH ON BRANCH TUBERS AND 



herb, citato, montib. de Balade (Vieill. n. 544-282); Puebo 



(JDeplanche n. 56). 



3. Species Japonic ce. 



17. Bobua japonica, nob. — Symplocos japonica, A. DC. Prod 



$ 



iii. p. 919. 



Sf Zuccar. (non Brongn. Sf 



Gr., nee A. DC), Flor. Japon. p. 56, tab. 24. In Japonia: non 

 vidi. 



18. B. pritnifolia, nob. — Symplocos prunifolia, Sieb. Sf Zuccar. 

 Abhand. AJcad. Wissensch. iv. 3, p. 133 ; Walp. Ann. i. p. 498. 

 In Japonia : non vidi. 



19. B. myrtacea, nob. — Symplocos myrtacea, Sieb. Sf Zuccar. 

 Abhand. AJcad. Wissensch. iv, 3, p. 133 ; Walp. Ann. i. p. 498. 

 In Japonia : non vidi. 



20. B. lancifolia, Sieb. Sf Zuccar. Abhand. AJcad. Wissensch. iv. 

 3, p. 133 ; Walp. Ann. i. p. 499. In Japonia : non vidi. 



21. B. leptostachya, nob. — Symplocos leptostachya, Sieb. 

 Sf Zucc. AbJiandl. AJcad. Wissensch. iv. 3, p. 134 ; Walp. Ann. i. 

 p. 499. In Japonia : non vidi. 



22. B. neriifolia, nob. — Symplocos neriifolia, Sieb. Sf Zucc 

 I. c. ; Walp. Ann. i. p. 499. In Japonia : non vidi. 



23. B. theophrast^folia, Sieb. Sf Zucc. I. c. ; Walp. Ann. i 

 p. 499. In Japonia : non vidi. 



On Branch /Tubers and Tendrils of Vitis gongylodes. By B. Ir^vi^ 



Lynch, of Kew Gardens. (C 



> 



F.L.S.) 



[Read November 21, 1878.] 



(Plate XV.) 



I hate the pleasure of calling the attention of the Fellows of the 

 Society to living specimens of Vitis gongglodes, illustrating its 

 peculiar habit of forming a tuber at the extremity of every branch 

 when ceasing growth for the season. They are analogous to the 

 subterranean tubers produced by the potato and many other plants; 

 but, in contrast to the tubers of an ordinary kind, they are pro- 

 duced in the air at considerable height, and, when the brandies 



