Observations on the Flora of Japan. 



(Continued from p. 115.) 



By 

 T. Makino. 



Ardisia (Crispardisia) hortorum Maxim, in Kegel's Gartcnfl. (1865) 

 p. 363, tab. 491. 



Ardisia Tachibana Makino Notes on Jap. PI. XV. in Bot. Mag., 

 Tokyo, VI. (1892) p. 53, notnen tantnm. 



Ardisia crispa Le Maont et Decne. Gen. Syst. Plot, trans. Hook. 

 (1876) p. 532, figg., non A. DC. 



An undershrub, attaining about 5 clecim. in height ; stem erect, usually 

 simple, or sometimes few-branched, terete, often disparsed with lenticels, 

 with leaf-scars, brown and glabrous, but minutely glandular in young 

 portion of this year. Leaves persistent, spreading, sparce, crowed at the 

 top of the stem, petiolate, elongato-lanceolate or lato-lanceolate, gladually 

 attenuated-acuminate with an obtuse and subcallose tip, cuneato-attenuated 

 below, depressed-subcrenato-subcrisped or subentire, with an intramarginal 

 series of small distinct acute processes on the upper surface" and 

 convex spots on the under surface, flaccidly chartaceo-membranaceous, 

 or membranaceous, glabrous, deep-green above, light green and inpunctate 

 beneath, 8-24 cm. long, l§-7 cm. broad, involute in vernation ; midrib 

 much prominent beneath and very angustately prominent above; veins 

 usually 4-7 on each side, ascending and often subparallel to the midrib, 

 curved inwards at base and curved outwards at apex ; veinlets incon- 

 spicuous ; petiole flatly grooved in front, glabrate but minutely glandular 

 when young, 6-13 mm. long. Inflorescence much shorter than leaves ; 

 umbels pedunculate, cernuous, shorter than peduncles, 4-12-flowered to 

 an umbel, 2-|— 2§ cm. across, usually simple, or sometimes compound with 

 short second peduncles ; pedicels proportionally stout, terete, straight or 

 slightly curved downwards at the upper end, purpureo-rosy, very minutely 

 glandular, 5-10 mm. long, the surrounding ones erect-patent ; peduncles 

 approximate, axillary to leaves of the stem of the last year and to fallen 

 scales (which are subulate, subulato-lanceolate, subulato-linear, or spathulate, 

 8-11 mm. in length) in the basal portion of stem of this year, erect-patent, 



