1 98 BALANOPHORE.E. EUFHORBIACE M. 



branches and the male flowers being more or less complanate. 



Balanophoreee. 

 Balanophora FORST. 



Balanophora morrisonicola HAYATA sp. nov. Parasitica. Planta 12- 

 15 cm. alta simplex dicecia cylindrico-teres. Volva siibglobosa fulvescens. Scapi 

 rubescentes cylindrico-teretes cum spicis circ. 15 cm. longi, pedunculo 7 cm. 

 longo 8 mm. in diametro basi 2-3-squamato ; spica floris $ rubescens cylindrica 

 circ. 10 cm. longa 2 cm. lata dense flora ta. Fl. : majuscnli apertientes plus 

 quam 1cm. in diametro valde depress! sessiles l^cm. in diametro transverse 

 1^ cm. in diametro verticali, lobis perianthii inaaqualibus 4-6 late rotundatis 

 vel quadra ngulari bus ; antherie perfecte connate, loculis numerosis plus quam 

 100 in flore singulo. Fl. ^- : dense spicati, spicis rubescentibus ovato-ellipsoideis 

 circ. 7cm. longis 32mm. latis apice obtusissimis, facie corporibus dense dispositis, 

 corporibus clavato-cubiformibus 1| mm. longis 1mm. latis apice truncatis basi 

 stipitiformibus basi ovarii numerosis insitis. 



HAB. Mt. Morrison, leg. T. KAWAKAMI et S. SASAKI. 



Near BalanopJiora formosana HAYATA, but distinguishable from it by the 

 ovoid or ellipsoidal spikes of female plants and by the very much larger male 

 flowers with very much more numerous anther-cells. 



Balanophora mutinoides HAYATA Ic. PL Formos. III. p. 168, t. 31. 



Balanophora Kaivaltamii. 



HAB. Mt. Arisan : Nimandaira, leg. B. HAYATA, Mart. 1914. 



B. mutinoides, B. Kaivakamii are two names given to one and the same 

 species by two different authors. One name should be rendered a synonym of 

 the other. Male flowers creem-yellow, female flowers light reddish-purple. 



Euphorbiaeeae. 

 Cyclostemon BLUME. 



Cyclostemon karapinense HAYATA sp. nov. Arborescens vel frutex. 

 Eami graciles cinerascentes longitudinaliter rugulosi, cortice plus minus fisso, 

 lenticellis minutis haud distinctis, raniulis foliiferis gracillimis in exsiccato 

 fusco-uigricantibus paucissime hirsutis subrectis. Folia alterna remote disposita 



