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It grows on a large trunk of a Qmrcvs in the broad leaved forests at 

 Nimandaira in Mt. Arisan. It was brought back by myself to the Koishi- 

 kawa Garden. 



Tseniophyllum sp. 



HAB. Banchoryo : Koryohei, leg. T. KAWAKAMI et U. MORI, Nov., 1907. 



The only Tceniophyllum from the island. No flowers indeterminable. 



Liliaceae. 



Aspidistra attenuata HAYATA sp. nov. Herba pereunis. Kliizoma re- 

 pens incrassatum semi-tores, 1 cm. in diametro supra foliatum subtus radices 

 teretes emittens approximating, nodosum, apice squamis ovatis lanceolatis 10- 

 30 cm. longis basi 4-5 cm. latis instructum, alabastro foliorum conico-ovoideo 

 acuminato, squamis cuspidato-ovatis involucrato. Folia e facie superiore rhizo- 

 matum oriiuida louge petiolata, cum petiolis 125 cm. longa, laminis oblanceolata 

 80 cm. longa 8 cm. lata apice acuta basi attenuata ad petiolum gradatim abeuntia 

 utraque glabra plus minus obliqua, costis supra sulcatis, subtus prominenti- 

 libus, petiolis teretibus 30-40 cm. longis superiore alatis, inferiore supra sul- 

 catis multo-striatis, basi plus minus dilatis, rhizoma semi-amplectantibus. 

 Scapi e latere rhizomatum 1-florati 6 cm. longi graciles erecti basi 2-3 

 squamati, squamis ovato-triangularibus imbricatis, superiore 1-squamati, 

 (squamis ovatis 1 cm. longis amplexicaulibus) apice sub floris singulis 1-2- 

 bracteati, bracteis ovatis 1^ cm. longis, alabastrum florum amplectantibus, 

 bracteis squamisque tenuibus nervosis. Perianthium late cylindricum apice 

 campanulatum 24- cm. longum 2 cm. latum apice 7-8-lobatum, lobis recurvis 

 triangularibus 7-8 mm. longis crassiusculis extus planis intus 3-costatis plus 

 minus tuberculatis, costis deorsum divergentibus ad medium tubi gradatim 

 evanescentibus sursum versus apicem lobi convergentibus, margine tenuibus 

 lamellatis subintegris, sinubus inter lobos spurie plicatis, partibus tubulatis 

 basi leviter cordatis contractis in longitudinali sectioue extus planis intus 

 leviter costatis, utraque facie parce nigro-punctatis. Stamina 7-8, lobis 

 perianthii opposita, pulvinis infra medium tubi adnata, sessilia, antheris 

 elongato-oblongis 2^ mm. lougis 2-locularibus. Ovarium late conicum 2 mm. 



