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Campanumcea axillaris Oliv. in Hook. Ic. PI. XVTIT. tab. 1775, 

 (1888) ; Forbes et Hems!, in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXVI. p. 7 ; Henry in 

 Trans. Asiat, Soc. Jap. XXVI. Suppl. p. 570. 



? Cyclocodon adnatus Griff. Notul. PI. Asiat. IV. p. 278. 



Stem and branches subquadrangular. Leaves lato-lanceolate, attain- 

 ing 12 cm. long, 5 cm. or more broad. Bracteoles sometimes leafy, rarely 

 adnate to the base of the fruit. Fruit subdepressed-globose, about li cm. 

 across. Seed minute, numerous, oval, compressed, smooth, umber-coloured. 



Norn. Jap. Tangebu (in Amani Oshima). 



Hah. Formosa: Tamsui {Morse) ; Loochoo : Amami Oshima (Y. Ta- 

 shirol herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Sept. 1887), Naze in Amami 

 Oshima (T. Uchiyamal herb. ibid. Dec. 4. 1900), Yaeyama Archip. (Y. 

 Tashirol herb. ibid. Aug. 1887). 



New to the Loochoo Flora. 



Cremastra unguiculata Finet in Bull. Soc. Bot. France XLVII. 

 (1900) p. 269. 



Oreorchis itnguiculala Finet 1. c. XLIII. (1896) p. 698, tab. 14, et 

 XLIV. (1897) p. 70. 



A terrestrial Orchid. Roots fibrous, slender, filiform, whitish, densely 

 hairy, issuing and spreading from the base of the pseudbulb in the 

 verticillate manner. Rhizome short, wiry, glabrous, ascending, with a 

 pseudbulb at the top. Pseudbulb erect, tuberous, ovoid or globoso-ovoid, 

 about 12-15 mm. long, 7-15 mm. across, smooth, with 2 nodes, loosely 

 covered with marcescent fibres of old vaginte. Leaves 2, situated at 

 the apical end of the pseudbulb, broadly lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 11-17 cm. long including the petiole, 2-3 J cm. broad, entire, sharply acute 

 at the apex, gradually attenuated below into a narrow petiole, subplicate, 

 glabrous, thinly chartaceous, maculate with purple spots beneath; tripli- 

 nerved, with numerous and close small veinlets between main nerves; trans- 

 verse venules delicate and loose; petiole slender, 3-5 cm. long, canaliculate 

 in front, the outer one forming a tubular sheath below and enclosing 

 that of the inner leaf. Scape erect from the superior part under the 

 apical end of the pseudbulb, much longer than leaves, slender, terete, 

 smooth, 3±-4| decim. high including the raceme, 2J-3 mm. in diameter in 

 the lower portion, a basal sheath with marcescent fibres in flowering time, 

 furnished with distantly placed 2 sheaths in the lower portion ; sheath 

 long, tubular, 3^-5 cm. long, close to the scape, glabrous, scarioso-mem- 



