Observations on the Flora of Japan. 



{Continued from p. 122 ) 



By 



T. Makiiio. 



Lecturer of Botany in (he Science Colleye, 

 Imperial Univers'ty of Tokyo. 



Desmodium Maximowiczii Makino, nora. nov. 



Desmodium podocarpum var. latifolium Maxim, in litt. ; 

 Matsum. Shokubulsu Mei-i (1895), p. 104. 



Desmodium oxyphyllum var. villosum Matsum. in Bot. 

 Mag., Tokyo, XXI. p 59. 



Nom. jap. Hiroha-no-nusuhitohagi. 



Hab. Japan. 



Prunus Koidzumii Makino, sp. nov. (Fig. XII.) 



Prunus Pseudocerasus Dipp. Handb. Laubholzk. III. (1893), 

 fig. 253, vix non Lindl., excl. syn. 



Prunus pseudo-Cerasus var. j. serrulata subvar. b. Sieboldi 

 Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XXII. (1908), p. 102, pro parte. 



A tree ; branches cinereo-castaneous, with old lenticels ; 

 branchlets cinereo-castaneous or rufescent-castaneous, terete, 

 glabrous, dispersed with punctiform lenticels ; young branchlets 

 foliiferous, terete, glabrous, smooth, light green and usually 

 shaded with purple, dispersed with minute punctiform or fusi- 

 form lenticels. Leaves obovato-elliptical, obovato-oval, or el- 

 liptical, rounded-obtuse or rounded or subcordate at the base, 

 abruptly caudato-acuminate at the apex, duplicately dentato- 

 serrate with deltoid or ovato-deltoid sharp teeth, membrana- 

 ceous, green and not shining or slighitly shining and dispcrscdly 

 pubescent with patent hairs above, paler and pubescent with 

 patent hairs beneath (hairs denser on midrib and veins also on 



