28 ■ THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. [Voi. xxvi. No. 302. 



Hah. Prov. Iyo in Sliikokii ; Pro v. Bunco in Kiusiu. 



The culm is much slender and straight, and is used especially 

 for the manufacture of the best qualitj^ of blind. 



I have named this useful bamboo in honour of Mr. Yoshio 

 Tanaka, a member of the House of Peers, renowned in 

 the Economical Botany and Zoology of Japan. 



Shortia soldanelloides (Sieb. et Zucc.) Makino in 

 Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XXI. (1907), p. 31. 



Schizocodon soldanelloides Sieb. et Zucc, in Abhandl. Akad. 

 Muench. III. 2, p. 725, tab. 2, fig. 1. 



forma alpina (Maxim.) Makino, 1. c. 



Schizocodon soldanelloides forma alpina Maxim, in Mel. 

 Biol. YIII. p. 20. 



b. minima Makino, nov. 



Rhizome elongate, slender, repent, loosely ramose, rooting. 

 Leaves tufted (tuft about l^-3cm. in diameter), spreading, 

 petiolate ; blade orbicular, entire or obsoletely few-crenate 

 towards the apex, coriaceous, green, pauci-veined, 3-lOmm. in 

 each way ; petiole gracile, very short or attaining about 9mm. 

 in length. Scape erect, much exserted, attaining about 3cm. 

 in height, gracile, glabrous, 1-2-bracteate near the flower ; 

 bract small, narrow, obtuse, 2|-3mm. long. Flower solitary 

 (in my specimens), erect. Calyx 6-8mm. long. Style erect, 

 exserted. 



Nom. Jap. Hime-koiwakagami (nov.). 



Hah. Prov. Osumi : Mt. Miyanoura-dake in Isl. Yakushima 

 (T. Makino ! Sept. 1909). 



This locality is the southern limit of the species. 



[To he continued.) 



