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keeps floriferous specimens, which I have collected on a liill 

 near Haiki and Kawatana in the province of Hizen in Kiusiu, 

 August 1907. 



Sasa Owatarii Makino, nom. nov. 



Arundinaria Owatarii Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokj-o, XXI. 

 (1907), p. 16. 



Rhizome hypogceous, repent, long, slender, terete, smooth, 

 about 4mm. across ; internode about IJ— 4Jcm. long. Culm 



erect, slender, densely branched, attaining about Im. or more 

 in height, about 4^mm. in diameter, smooth, flavescent when 

 dried ; node scarcely prominent ; sheath glabrous, microphyll 

 linear, setaceo-acuminate. Leaves 2— 13cm. long, ^—l^cm. 

 broad, 1 — 4 to an ultimate ramule, pale-viridescent when dried, 

 broader in those of the shoot. 



Nom. Jap. Yakushima-dake (T. Makino). 



Hab. Prov. OsuMi: Isl. Yakushima, mountain (C Owatarii; 

 T. Makino !). 



Arundinaria Chino (Franch. et Sav.) Makino, nom. 

 nov. 



Bamhusa Chino Franch. et Sav. Enum. PL Jap. II. pp. 

 183, 607. 



Arundinaria Simoni var. Chino Makino in Descr. Prod, 

 forest. Expos. Univ. 1900 Paris Minist. Agric. et Commerc. ; 

 Id. in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XIY. (1900), p. 62 (Jap.), et p. 93. 



Bambuse haydekeri Hort. ex Bean in Gard. Chron. 3rd. Ser. 

 XY. p. 368 ; Mitf. Bamb. Gard. p. 92 cum tab. ; Satow, Cult. 

 Bamb. Jap. in Trans. Asiat. Soe. Jap. XXYII. 3, p. 47. 



Arundinaria Laydekeri Bean, 1. c. p. 238. 



Arundinaria vaginata Hack, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. YII. p. 

 717, pro parte. 



? Bambos sinotake Sieb. Syn. PI. Oecon. Jap. p. 5, 



Nom. Jap. Hakone-dake. 



Hab. Japan, widely distributed. 



var. argenteo-striata Makino. 



Arundinaria Simoni var. argenteo-striata Makino Descr. 

 Prod, forest. Exp. univ. 1900 Paris Minis. Agric. et Comm. ; 



