JAN. 1912.] T. MAKINO.-OBSERVATIO.\S ON THE FLORA OF JAPAN. 13 



Sasa japo- 



nica(Sieb.etZucc.) 

 Makino, nom. nov. 



(Fig. IL) 



Arundinaria ja- 

 ponica Sieb. et Zucc. 

 exSteud.Syn.Gram. 

 p. 334 ; Makino in 

 Bot. Mag., Tokyo, 

 XIV. (1900), p. 62 

 (Jap.), et p. 80. 



Bamhusa japo- 

 nica Nichols. III. 

 Diet. Gard. I. p. 

 118. 



hctmbusa Me- 

 take Sieb. in Hort. 

 Cat. ex Miq. Ann. 

 Mus. Bot. Lugd.- 

 Batav. IL p. 284, 

 non Sieb. Syn. PL 

 Oecon. Jap. (1830), 

 p. 4. 



Arundinaria 

 Metake Niehols. 1. 

 c. p. 118. 



Bamhos jatake Sieb. Syn. Pi. Oecon. Jap. p. 5, 



Bamhusa mitis Hort. Paris, ex Munro, Monogr. Bamb. in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVL p. 18, non Poir. 



Phyllostachys hamhusoides Matsum. Shok.-Mei. (1895), p. 

 213, n. 2315 ; E. Satow, Cult. Bamb. Jap. in Trans. Asiat. 

 Soc. Jap. XXVII. 3, p. 46 cum tab., non Sieb. et Zucc. 



Panicles erect, not large, broad or narrow, not dense, long- 

 peduncled. 



Nom. Jap. Ya-dake (Arrow Bamboo). 



This species has especially a close affinity to Sasa spiculosa 

 Makino ( = S. horealis Makino et Shibata). My Herbarium 



Fig. II. 



