1502.] 



87 



Observations on ttie Flora of Japan. 



{Continued from p. 60.) 



By 

 T. Makino, 



Assistant in the Botanical Institute, Scuynce 

 College, Imperial University of 2objo. 



COERECTIOXS. 



Page 50, line S, for " truncato-suhemarginate," read: usually bifid. 



,, line 9, for " eroso-crispate," read: suberoso-cri.spate. 



Page 53, line 7 from^bottoni, for " iiitermidia," read: inta-mcdia. 



Page 56, line 8 from bottom, /or " Jlemivm," read: Herminium. 



Rubus Thunbergii Sieb. et Zncc. var. simplicifolius Makino var. nov. 



Utider-shrul), attaining about 5 decini, or more in height. Branches 

 slender, terete, flexuons, covered with glandular purjile hispidulons hairs 

 and eglandular white pubescent hairs intermixed with laxly placed patent 

 straight prickles. Leaves simple, orbicular, ovato-orbicular, or broadlj' ovate, 

 often subtrilobed in those of shoot, obtuse, or shortly acute, cordate at base, 

 unequally serrate or mucronato-crenate or often also scarcely lobcd, sparsely 

 pubescent and ciliated with eglandular hairs, thin, herbaceous, rugose, 

 1-7^ cm. long, i-7i cm. broad, deciduous, or rarely partly persistent ; 

 midrib as well as veins prominent beneath ; veins 3-6 on each side, 

 erect-patent but the lowest one spreading and branched outwards, reach- 

 ing to the margin ; petiole shorter than the blade, semiterete, sharrowly 

 canaliculate in front, covered with sparse glandular hispidulons hairs and 

 eglandular pubescent hairs ; stipules adherent by its base to that of the 

 petiole, ovate to lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate, somewhat oblique in form, 

 acute, or acuminate, entire, pubescent and ciliated with eglandular hairs, 

 viridescent, thin, herbaceous, pinnately veined, 3-6 mm. long, 1-3 mm. 

 wide, persistent. Flower solitary on the top of axillary peduncles, white, 

 3-31 cm. across, the bud ovato-globose, truncate at base ; peduncle solitary, 

 narrow, straight or hardly flexuous, about 3-6 cm. long, leafy, the lower 

 leaves rudimentary, the basal scales small and subulate. Calyx 5-parted 

 in the normal one, but sometimes 6-S-parted, disparsed with glandular 

 patent purple hispidulous hairs and eglandular fine pubescent hairs 

 outwards, about 2-2i cm. across, persistent; sepals patent, reflexed after 



