igo2.j OBSERVATIONS ON THE FLORA OF JAPAN. 51 



(1S17) p. 20, Add. p. 562, et Mant. (1822) p. 19; Spreng. Syst. Veg. I. 

 (1825) p. 14; Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. p. 65; But. Mag. tab. 1903; Wiglit Ic. 

 lab. 2027 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 348 ; Baker in Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 VI. p. 256 ; Nichols\ 111. Diet. Gard. I. p. 54, fig. 02 ; K. 8cb. in Engl. 

 Bot. Jabrb. (18S8) p. 195 ; IVters. in Engl et Prantl Nat. Pflanzenf. II. 

 6, p. 23 ; Henry in Trans. Asiat. Soc. Jap. XXIV. Snppl. p. 94, non 

 Glohha nutans Linn. 



Hub. Formosa: Kelung {T. Muhlno and C. Owatari\ berli. Sc. Coll. 

 Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Oct. 31, 1896; T. Makino\ berb. ibid. Nov. 1,1896); 

 IlYCKyO: Onnab in Isl. Okinawa {J. Matsumura\ berb. ibid. April 1897); 

 x\MAMi-OsniMA : A mountain road near Urakami (7. Katsuge ! Sept. 17, 

 1901). 



Alpinia (Antalpinia) bilamellata Makino sp. nov. 



Ptliizome perennial (?) Leafy stem erect. Le.ives bifariuus, oblong- 

 lanceolate, very shortly petiolate, rather abruptly and diminutively acuminate 

 at the apex, obtuse at the base, entire, margined with very narrow colourless 

 and very minutely scabrous border, but smooth on the lower margin, charta- 

 ceous, quite glabrous on both surfaces, green above, more or less paler 

 beneath, with considerably close-phiced veins, about 35 cm. long or more, 

 9 cm. broad or more ; ligule slightly longer than the jietiole, ovate, obtuse, 

 subcoriaceous, jinbescent outwards; sheath long, coriaceous, smooth-margined. 

 Panicle erect, about 16 cm. long, narrowly pyramidal, loosely branched ; 

 rachis tlexuou-, softly i)ubescent above ; branches ascending, softly jiubescent, 

 the lowest one longest and about 4 cm. long ; bracts caducous ; bracteoles 

 ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, membranaceous, embracing, finely ])ubescent 

 dorsally, loosely nerved, the up})er ones much smaller, about 2-3 mm. long, 

 eHi[)tic il, membranaceous. Flowers about 1-3-crowded, about 3| cm. long, 

 erect, with a slurrt and pubescent i)edic-.l 5-9 mm. long. Calyx loosely 

 can)panulato-tubular, unequally 3-lobed, membranaceous, finely pul.>escent 

 (denser below) externally, about 1cm. long, laxly nerved; lobes semiorbicular- 

 ovato, obtuse or mucronato- obtuse or minutely suberose at the apex, minutely 

 suboiliated, the one of them smaller. Corolla much exserted; finely pubes- 

 cent externally; the tube equal to calyx in length, 3-4 mm. across in the 

 middle ; longer than the tube, li cm. long, erect-patent, oblong-spathulate, 

 obtuse or acutish-obtusc at the apex, concave within, firndy and thickly 

 membranaceous but thinly membranaceous towards the margin, the i)Osterior 

 one about 10-nerved and cucullate-navicular and with a cusp on the back 

 of the apex, the other two about 7-8-nerved. Lip longer than the 



