190 ,.-, OBSERVATIONS ON THE FLORA OF JAPAN. G5 



Norn. Jap. To-chiku. 



Hob. Prov. Tosa: Sakawa, cult. (T. Makino \ Nov. 1892, 1894), Kochi, 

 cult. (T. Makino \ Dec. 1892); Prov. Totomi: Wash idzu, cult. (T. Makino\ 

 Oct. 1S94) ; Prov. Yamashiro : Mukomachi, cult. (T. Makino ! Nov. 6, 

 1894); Prov. Miko : Kusafuka, cult. {T. Makino ! Aug. 1899); Prov. 

 Musashi : Tokyo, Bot. Gard. Koishikawa, cult. (Herb. ! Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. 

 Tokyo ; T. Makino ! Nov. 17, 1894) ; Prov. Iyo : Matzuyama, cult. (K. 

 Okudaira ! no. 96, .Sept. 1901, June 1903). 



This bamboo is found in the middle and southern Japan, cultivated 

 in gardens as an ornament or sometimes as a hedge plant. It is no-where 

 found wild in this country. It was introduced from China in olden 

 time, hence the name To-chiku (Too-tsik), i. e., a Chinese bamboo. The 

 peculiarity on this bamboo is its elongated internodes, which are, however, 

 without special value. The shoot is unedible. The flower is rarely met 

 with, and for the floriferons specimens I owe to the kindness of Mr. 

 Kan-iclii Okudaira. 





Asparagus (Euasparagus) oligcclonos Maxim. Prim. Fl. Amur. 

 (1859) p. 287; Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 315; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. 

 Jap. II. p. 59; Baker, Rev. Gen. et Sp. Asparag. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XIV. 

 (1875) p. 599 ; Bretsch. Hist. Bot, Bisc. in China, p. 615 ; Palib. Consp. 

 Fl. Kor. III. p. 9; Matsum. Ind. PI. Jap. II. 1, p. 192. 



Asparagus officinalis veer. Sieb. herb, ex Miq. 1. c. 



Asparagus Tamaboki Yatabe in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, VII. (1893) p. (51, 

 tab. 4 ; Matsum. 1. c. 



Perennial. Ehizome short, creeping or nscending, ramose, hard ; roots 

 dense, elongate, slender, strong. Stem erect or ascending, attaining about 

 70 cm. in height, subterete and loosely sparse with adpressed scaly leaves 

 in the basal portion, subangulato-terete (but sulcato-angulate when dried) 

 and substriate above, smooth in angles when recent but subscabrous above 

 when dried as are branches, deep green and disparsed with very minute 

 pale spots under lens as are the branches ; branches numerous and subclose, 

 disposed into a pyramidal form, erect-patent or patulose, straight, subangu- 

 late and striate, slightly compressed towards the base, with dense cladodia 

 excepting the base, the lower ones longer and attaining about 29cm. in length, 

 the superior ones gradually shorter and the uppermost one about 1^ cm. 

 long, the inferior ones often with about 1-5 (or sometimes 14) patulose 



