1902.] 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE FLORA OF JAPAN. H 



long, 4i-5imm. broad. Labelluin a little shorter than the inner perianth, 

 horizontal, sessile with the obtuse or rounded-obtuse base, glabrous, hardly 

 3-lobed, with narrowly 2 glabrous lamellfe between the side lobes forming 

 a central deep longitudinal canal by conduplication, lG-25mm. long ; the 

 side lobes erect, short, entire, rounded and minutely suberose at the apex, 

 thickish, purple-coloured, but the lower portion barred with the same colour; 

 mid-lobe much larger, ovate or oblong-ovate, obtuse with an acutish tip, 

 entire, retlexed, thinner, many-nerved, light green and loosely spotted with 

 purple, 10-1 Gmm. long, G-lOmm, broad. Gynostemium arcuate, trigonous- 

 compressed, entire-edged, light green, spotted with purple in front, 10-1 4mm. 

 long, 3-3imm. wide ; clinandrium oblifj^uely truncate, the dorsal edge 

 deltoid; anther hemispluerical, thick above, truncate at base, sub-2-celIed ; 

 polHnia 4, sessile, ovato-oval, much compressed, waxy, yellow, the gland 

 lunate. Ovary slenderly cylindrical, shorter than the perianth, glabrous. 



Ifah. Prov. Musashi: Tokyo, Bot. Gard. Koishikawa, cult. (T. 3Iakinol 

 Jan. 1902). 



An allied species of Cymbidium oislfolium Sw., and C xipliiifolium 

 Lindl. This Orchid is most familiar to the Japanese, being admired 

 as the noblest and most valuable plant, from the fragrance of its flowers 

 and noble appearance of its leaver'. It is found freely growing in shady 

 forests of the warmer parts of the south-west of this country, but it is 

 commonly cultivated in pot with care. It flowers at the Ijcginning of 

 winter, hence the name Kanran, that is Winter Orchid. There are 

 various forms ; forma purpurascens is one of them having the [turpu- 

 rascent flower. 



Cymbidium alborubens Makino sp. nov. 



Terrestrial. Pseudo-bulb horn-shaped or ovato-fusiform, attaining about 

 2cm. across, enclosing with the base of leaves ; scales several, firmly mem- 

 branaceous, subulate-lanceolate, acute, the superior and largest one attaining 

 about 18cm. in length, lastly drying away and splitting into fibres ; roots 

 numerous, slender, branched, 2i-4imm. across. Leaves densely tufted, 

 recurved, 4 to 8 to a pseudo-bulb, elongate, linear, acuminate, very grad- 

 ually attenuated below, canaliculated in front and rounded dorsally and 

 narrowly membranaceous-edged towards the base, entire with quite smooth 

 margins, deeply green and shining above, })aler beneath, thinly coriaceous, 

 2-lOdecim. long, I-2cm. wide ; midrib slender, narrowly canaliculate above, 

 prominent beneath ; main nerves 2-4 on each side and invisible superficially 

 in living specimens. Scape lateral, cernuous from the base of the pseudo- 



