44 BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. [Vo i. xvnt, 



Observations on the Flora of Japan. 



{Continued from p. 35.) 



By 

 T. Makino. 



Mussaenda shikokiana Makino sp. dov. 



Mussmnda parviflora Miq. var. shikokiana in sched. herb. 



Branchlet subquadrangular- terete, brownish-fulvous, disparsed with ad- 

 pressed pilose hairs above. Leaves petiolate, oval-elliptical, suddenly short- 

 acuminate, rounded and deeurrent to the upper portion of the petiole at the 

 base, entire, membranaceous, very thinly disparsed with pilose hairs and 

 hairs denser on the nerves above, piloso-pubescent on nerves beneath, 

 green above, paler beneath, 10-11 cm. long, 6-7 cm. wide; midrib promi- 

 nent beneath ; veins 7-10 on each side, erect-patent, arcuate upwards, 

 reaching the margin, regularly arranged; petiole 1-2 cm. long, thinly ad- 

 pressed-pilose. Fruiting cyme about 10 cm. across, divaricately branched, 

 pubescent. Fruits many, globoso-obovoid, 10-llmm. long, 9-lOnim. across, 

 thinly adpressed-pilose, with a ring remained by the fallen calyx and corolla, 

 nigrescent when dry, pedicellate; pedicel shorter than the fruit. Seeds 

 numerous, minute, oval-elliptical, compressed, yellowish -brown, scrobiculate. 



Hah. Prov. Tosa : Shimonokaye in Hata-gdri (A'. Watanabe\ Aug. 

 24, 1892). 



Though I do not yet seen flowers, leaves and seeds differ from those 

 of Musscenda parviflora Miquel. 



Plectranthus inflexus Vahl var. verticillatus Makino in Bot. Mag., 

 Tokyo, VI. (1892) p. 54. 



Leaves 4-verticillate, ovate, crenate ; petiole winged by the decurrence 

 of the blade. Flower as in the type. 



llah. Prov. Sagami: Tsukui (F. Aluraolcal October 1888). 



Nodes of the stem are very remote from each other iu my specimen. 



Scutellaria shikokiana Makino in Lot. Mag., Tokyo, VI. (1892) 

 p. 54. 



Scutellaria sp. Makino 1. c. III. (1889) p. 4. 



