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I Vol. XVI, 



Observations on the Flora of Japan. 



{Continued from Vol. XV. p. 172.) 



By 

 T. Makino, 



Asdstant in the Botanical Inxtitule, Science 

 College, Imperial University of 2objo. 



Cymbidium Kanran Makino sp. nov. (1900). 



Terrestrial. P8eudo-Liilb not large, ovoid, attaining about 17mm. 

 across, subterranean or nearly so; scales several, subulate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 membranaceous, many-nerved, carinate dorsally, imbricately and closely equi- 

 tant, the largest one about lO^m. in length, at last drying away; roots fibrous, 

 simple, thick, spongy, whitish. Leaves tufted, 4 or 3 to a bulb, recurved, 

 linear or broadly linear, acuminate, gradually narrowed below, canaliculate in 

 front and carinate dorsally towards the base, dilated and embracing the 

 pseudo-bulb at the very base, coriaceo-chartaceous, but firmly coriaceous below, 

 entire but serrulato-scabrous above, shining above, nearly concolorous beneath, 

 2-7 decim, long, 6-17mm. broad ; midrib slender, prominent beneath ; main 

 nerves 2 to 3 on each side, hardly prominent in living specimens. Scape 

 lateral, erect from the base of the pseudo-bulb, attaining about 25-GOcm. 

 in height including the raceme, green, often pur])lish, sheathing ; sheaths 

 membranaceous, narrowly lanceolate acuminate and tubular below, remotely 

 placed above, but gradually closed and gradually decreasing in size below, 

 imbricated in the basal ones, closely many-nerved. Raceme more or less 

 secundly and loosely 5 to 12-fiowered : rachis shorter than the peduncle, 

 slender, terete, smooth ; bracts linear, acuminate, shorter than the ovary, 

 3 to several-nerved, 8-2SnuB. long. Flowers S-Hcni across, very fragrant. 

 Perianth viridescent, purj)le in centre in the inner perianth, entire, 5-nerved. 

 Outer perianth patulous, broadly linear, very sharply acuminate ; the superior 

 (truly inferior) one 3-4cm. long, 3^-4imm. broad ; lateral ones a little 

 shorter than the superior one, hardly oblique in form. Timer perianth 

 erect-patent, shorter than the outer one, lanceolato-linear, scarcely oblique 

 in form, sharply acuminate, hardly carinate behind below, 2- nearly 3cm. 



