Observations on the Flora of Japan. 



{Continued from p. 110.) 



By 



T. Makino. 



Fhyllodoce (Parabryanthus) nipponica Makino Bp. nov. 



Fhyllodoce taxifolia Maxim. Bhodod. As. Or. p. 16, quoad pi. Jap. 



Fhyllodoce taxifolia Franch. et Saw Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 286, et II. 

 p. 427; Matsum. Cat. Herb. Coll. 8c. Imp. Univ. (1886) p. 119, et 

 Shokubutsu Mei-i (1895) p. 213, n. 2313 ; Sargent, For. Fl. Jap. p. 10 ; 

 Yabe, Enum. P). Alp. Mount. Shirouma in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XVII. 

 (1903) p. 23, non Salisb. 



Fhyllodoce taxifolia Bois. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. V. (1897) p. 914, ex 

 parte ? non Salisb. 



A small evergreen shrub, 6-30 cm. high, ramose from the base; the 

 main stems ascending, many branched, the largest one about 5 mm. across 

 at the base ; branches erect, fastigiate, slender, thinly hispid and often 

 puberulent, or sometimes only pnberulent, griseo- umber or sooty sometimes 

 griseo-castaneous as is the main stem, but ferrugineo-fulvous towards the 

 extremities. Leaves patent or erect- patent, sparse, rather dense, shortly 

 p.tiolate, linear, shortly attenuated to the petiole at the base, obtuse at 

 the apex, spinuloso-serrulate with cartilaginous erect-patent minute teeth on 

 edges throughout, tumid and with margins strongly reflexed to the midrib, 

 glabrous, rigid, glossy, subundulato-convex and deep green and with a chan- 

 nel in centre above, slightly convex (but flat or slightly concave when 

 dried) and paler and with a broad midrib densely covered with minute 

 short white hairs excepting the base beneath, 4-15 mm. long, 1-2 mm. 

 across ; petiole adpressed, glabrous, about |-1 mm. long, reddish in recent. 

 Flowers turned laterally, rose-coloured, pedicellate ; pedicels much exceeding 

 the leaves, axillary, solitary, umbellately 1-9-aggregated at the top of 

 branches, erect, gracile, papilloso-pubescent throughout, 1-3 cm. long, bi- 

 bracteate at the base ; bracts opposite, sessile, embracing the base of pedicels, 

 very concave, broadly ovate, obtuse, entire, glabrous, but ciliolated with 

 white curved hairs on margins, thick ish, 1-nerved, persistent. Calyx con- 



