j22 BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. [Vol. xviii, 



Norn. Jap. Aiba-so. 



Bab. Prov. Iwashiro : Aidzu (J. Matsumura ! herb. 8c. Coll. Imp. 

 Univ. Tokyo, Aug. 1879); Prov. Kaga : Yumoto in Mt. Hakusan (It. 

 Yatabe and J. Matsumura ! herb. ibid. Aug. 6, 1881) ; Prov. Kn : Mt. 

 Zyudyo-toge (J. Matsumura and 8. Okubo ! herb. ibid. July 24, 1883) ; 

 Prov. Tosa : Mt. Kuromori (R. Yatabe \ herb. ibid. Aug. 3, 1888) ; Prov. 

 Cuikuzek: Mt. Wakasugi (K. Nagano \ herb, ibid.); Prov. Echigo : Mt. 

 Komagadake (B. Hayatal herb. ibid. 1903), Mt. Shimidzu-toge (T. Mahinol 

 Kept, 1888)'; Prov. Ise : Tsu (B. Kida ! 1899) ; Prov. Shihotsuke : Nikko 

 (T. Makinol Sept. 1901); Prov. Mosashi: Shirako (T. Makinol Aug. 29, 

 1894, Sept. 23, 1895) ; Prov. Ugo : Masuta (7. Sato ! Aug. 19, 1892). 



Common in middle and southern Japan, and .southern districts of 

 northern Japan. 



Pittosporum illicioides Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo. XIV. (1900) 

 p. 31 (Pars 1), et p. 32. (With Figure.) 



Inflorescence umbellate on the top of branchlets of this (erroneously 

 "last" loc. cit, p. 33) year, shorter than leaves, laxly 3-10-flowered ; 

 pedicels straight, narrow, glabrous, erect-patent or patent in the surround- 

 ings, 14-30 mm. long. Flower dioecious, 7-8 mm. long, about 10 mm. 

 across ; bud oblong, pale viridescent. Sepals 5, small, erect-patent, sometimes 

 shortly connate at the base, more or less unequal-sized, ovate to lato-ovate, 

 obtuse, thicker towards the centre and base, sometimes ciliated, 2-3 mm. long, 

 pale viridescent. Petals 5, patent then more or less reflexed above, erect as 

 if form a broad tube below, angustato-oblong, somewhat spathulate, rounded- 

 obtuse, entire, about 10 mm. long, 3-3 mm. broad, thickish, glabrous, 

 yellow but lighter below, vertically 3-nervate below and ramoso-venulose 

 above. Stamens 5, erect, shorter tTian petals, glabrous, longer than the 

 pistil and 7 mm. long in the male flower, but shorter than the pistil 

 and 5 mm. long in the female flower ; filament stout-filiform, longer than 

 the anther, yellow or yellowish-viridescent ; anther triangular-ovate and 

 21 mm. long in the male flower, but angustato -deltoid and 1J mm. long 

 and without pollen in the female flower, subobtuse and submucronate 

 at apex, auriculate at base, introrse, yellow ; pollen yellow. Ovary ovoid, 

 thinly puberulent, shortly jsubstipitate, about 2mm. across, pale viridescent; 

 style erect, shorter than the ovary, stout ; substigma terminal, depressed- 

 capitate and fulvo-yellow in the female flower, but not capitate and not 

 thick in the male flower. Flowers in May. 



Hob. Prov. Harima : Mt. Masui and Hiromine (K. Ikeda ! Oct. 23, 

 1901), Near Mt. Okishio (K. Ikeda ! May 25, 1902), Kashima-mura 

 (U. garni ! May 1904). 



I am indebted to Mr. Uchi Ogami for living specimens of flowers of 

 this rare species. 



(To be continued.) 



