Tas. 7943. 
TANAKASA RADICANS. 
Native of Japan. 
Nat. Ord. SaxirraGacEa#.—Tribe SaxIFRAGER. 
Genus Tanaka, Franch. et Savat. Enum. Pl, Jap. vol. ii. p. 852. 
TaNak&A radicans; herba dioica, vel fortasse interdum monoica, exigua, 
modesta, scaposa, stolonifera, stolonibus gracilibus foliiferis radicantibus, 
foliis longe petiolatis crassis subcarnosis demum coriaceis cum petiolo 4-8 
poll. longis oblongo-lanceolatis vel ovato-lanceolatis basi rotundatis vel 
subcordatis apice acutis, utringue parce setulosis demum glabrescenti- 
bus subduplicato-serratis, scapis gracillimis pyramidatim ramosis 6-7 
poll. altis parce minuteque setulosis, bracteis primariis linearibus acatis 
3-8 lin. longis, floribus minimis breviter pedicellatis, bracteis calycem 
zquantibus, sepalis 5 oblongo-lanceolatis circiter } lin. longis fere liberis, 
petalis nullis, H. ¢ staminibus 10 alternis brevioribus filamentis filiformi- 
bus sepala dimidio excedentibus, antheris unilocularibus, gynecei 
rudimento minato, fl. ? staminibus rudimentariis nullis, ovario glabro 
fere omnivo libero 2-loculare, stylis 2 divergentibus, ovulis numerosis, 
capsula ignota. 
T. radicans, Franch. et Savat. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. i. (1875) p. 144 (ubi nomen 
tantum et sphalmate Tanakea), ef op. cit. vol. ii. p. 352 (wbi descriptio et 
nomen emendatum), Honzo Zufu, vol. xxxvi. t. 23. Somoku Zusetsu, 
vol. vill. t. 17 (18 (japonice). Kew Hand-list Herb. Pl. ed. 2, 1902, 
p. 1127. Engler & Prantl Natiirl. Pflanzenf. vol. iii. 2, A. pp. 48 et 49, 
Hemsl. in The Garden, vol. Ixiii. (1908). p. 3384. Gard. Chron, 1903, 
vol. i. p. 269 (ervore Janckea) et p. 288. 
Tanakea is a monotypic genus confined to Japan in a 
wild. state, so far as our present knowledge goes; but 
exact localities are not given in the works cited. It was 
named after Yoshio Tanaka, a Japanese botanist and a 
member of the House of Peers. 
Our figure was prepared from a plant exhibited by 
R. H. Beamish, Esq., Ashbourne, Glounthaune, Cork, 
Treland, at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, 
where it was awarded a Botanical Certificate. When I 
wrote the article in “The Garden,” referred to above. 
I was under the impression that it was not at Kew in a 
hving state; but, as Mr. W. Irving, the Foreman of the 
Herbaceous Department, has informed me, a plant was 
presented to Kew by Mr. W. H. Stansfield, Nurseryman 
Marcu Ist, 1904, 
