Tas. 7944: 
KIRENGESHOMA PALMATA, 
Native of Japan. 
Nat. Ord. SaxirraGace”.—Tribe HYDRANGEA. 
Genus Kirencrsuoma, Yatabe, Bot. Mag. Tokyo Bot. Soc. vol. v. p. 1. 
KrRENGEsHOMA palmata; herba perennis, compacta, in horto kewensi culta 
circiter 2-pedalis, in sylvis indigenis 3-4-pedalis, caulibus graciliusculis 
glabris purpureis, foliis papyraceis preter superiora petiolatis cordato- 
rotundatis palmatilobatis utrinque pilis brevibus rigidis appressis in- 
structis caulinis szepius oppositis inferioribus 7-10-lobatis interdum 6-7 © 
poll. diametro petiolis 9-10 poll. longis sursum gradatim minoribus 
supremis sessilibus lanceolatis omnium lobis acutis grosse dentatis, 
pedunculis axillaribus terminalibusque sepissime trifloris folia super- 
antibus, bracteis linearibus acutis 2-4 lin. longis, pedicellis calycibusque 
puberulis, floribus luteis campanuliformibus 14-13 poll. diametro sub- 
nutantibus, calyce hemispherico circiter 5-6 lin. diametro 5-dentato 
dentibus subacutis, petalis 5 liberis crassiusculis fragilibus oblongo- 
lanceolatis supra medium recurvis sinistrorsum contorto-imbricatis, 
staminibus 15 triseriatis petalis basi adnatis seriei exterioris longioribus 
quam petalis brevioribus, seriei interioris brevioribus, filamentis filiformi- 
bus, antheris bilocularibus fissuris longitudinalibus dehiscentibus, 
ovario semisupero glabro_ triloculari (vel interdum quadriloculari, 
VYataée), loculis multiovulatis stylis glabris fere a basi liberis inclusis, 
capsula loculicide dehiscente stylis persistentibus divaricatis coronata, 
seminibus numerosis planis oblique alatis, embryone recto in albuminis 
carnosi axe, cotyledonibus ovatis radiculam teretem equantibus. 
K. palmata, Vatabe in Bot. Mag. Tokyo Bot. Soc. vol. v. (1€90), no. 46, p. 1, 
t. 18; Ieonogr. Fl, Jap. vol. i. (1891), p. 5, t. 2 (icon et descriptio Tok. Bot. 
Mag. ibi iterata). W. Wats. in Gard, Chron. vol. ii. 1903, p. 187. W. 
Irv. in The Garden, vol. ii. 1903, p. 245, eum figura plants kewensis in 
situ. Engl. in Engler & Prantl Natirl. Pflanzenf. Nachtr. p. 180. 
Kirengeshoma is, we believe, the first genus founded by 
a Japanese Botanist that has been figured in this Maga- 
zine; and it may be news to some of our readers that 
botanical work has been conducted in Japan for some 
years past on the same lines as in western countries, 
Most branches, too, have attained an equally high position. 
Both descriptive and illustrative work is excellently done, 
and descriptions of new plants are published in Latin or 
in one of the leading European languages, as well as in — 
Japanese. 
This genus was first published in the “ Botanical 
Magazine of Tokyo.” 'The name is compounded of the 
Marcu Ist, 1904. 
