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Koishikawa, cult, under the name of Seishi-kioa (T. Makino \ Feb. 1904). 

 Distrib. Southern China. 



Rhododendron (Azalea) Weyrichii Maxim. Rhod. As. Orient, p. 

 26, tab. 2, figg. 1-6 ; Franch. et Saw Enum. PI. Jap. T. p. 28S ; Forbes 

 et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXVI. p. 32 ; Bretschn. Hist. Eur. Bot. 

 Disc. Chin. p. 619. 



Azalea Weyrichii 0. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. II. p. 387. 



Rhododendron Farrerce a. Weyrichii Diels in Engler's Bot. Jahrh. 

 XXIX. p. 513. 



Rhododendron shikofcianum Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, VI. (1S92) 



p. OO. 



A shrub, attaining about 3m. or more in height, many-branched. 

 Branchlets often verticillate, ferrua;ineo-rufous. Branchlets of fioriferous 

 branchets bear usually 3 ( ! ) or rarely 2 leaves at the top ; the binate one 

 is due to the imperfection of the inner leaf, and the 3-nate one is the 

 normal state ; branchlets of sterile branches bear 3 leaves at the top. 

 Flower-bud terminal, rather large, about 19 mm. long, 9 mm. across, con ico- 

 ovoid ; peruke imbricate, ferrugineous, oval-ovate to elliptical, rounded or 

 rounded-obtuse with a cuspidato-mucronate point, fulvo-villoso-tomentose on 

 margin. Corolla red. Leaves rhombeo-oval, or rhombeo-ovate, mucrorato- 

 acute, very thinly disparsed with pale-fulvous villose hairs above, thinly 

 villoso-pubescent beneath, attaining about 8cm. long, 7cm. broad in fruit; 

 petiole 6-11 mm. long. Capsule conico-cylindrical, adpressed-villoso-pub- 

 escent, about 17 mm. long. 



Hab. Prov. Tosa in Shikoku : Sakawa (T. Makino V), Kochi (T. 

 Makino !), Kamibun (T. Makino !) ; Prov. Higo : Mt. Some-dake in Isl. 

 Amakusa (3f. Murakami !). 



This species is common in the province of Tosa, where it flowers abun- 

 dantly after Rh. rhombicuin Miq.; it grows on hills and low mountains. 



Ranunculus (Hecatonia) Kawakamii Makino sp. nov. 

 Ranunculus Cymbalarice herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, non Pursh. 

 Ranunculus sp. Kawakami in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XI. p. 56 ; Makino 

 1. c. XIII. p. 321. 



Perennial, glabrous, flagelliferous, 4-12 cm. in height ; runners few, 

 repent, long, filiform, r.tdicant, with remote nodes ; roots fasciculato-fibrous. 

 Leaves radical, few-13-tufted, erect, long-petioiate, ovate-elliptical, elliptical, 

 elliptical-oblong, or oblong, obtuse or obtuse-subtruncate at the base, coarsely 



