Observations on the Flora of Japan. 



(Continued from p. 122.) 



By 



T. Makino. 



Malaxis paludosa (Linn.) Sw. ' in Vet. Akad. Nya Handl. Stockh. 

 XXI. (1800) p. 235, tab. 3'; Houtt. Linn. Pfl.-Syst. XI. p. 608 ; Willd. 

 Sp. PI. IV. p. 91; Pers. Syn. PI. II. p. 514; R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. 

 ed. 2, V. p. 208; Spreng. Syst. Veg. III. p. 740; Reichb. Fl. Germ. 

 Excurs. p. 134 ; Koch Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. 3, p. 604 ; Lindl. Gen. 

 et Sp. Orchid, p. 24 ; Ledeh. Fl. Ross. IV. p. 51 ; Boswell Syme, Engl. 

 Bot, IX. p. 135, tab. 1489; Benth. Handb. Brit. Fl. ed. 5, p. 435; Hook, 

 iil. Stud. Fl. Brit, Isl. ed. 3, p. 384 ; Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXIV. 

 (1888) p. 348; Pfitzer in Engler et Prantl, Nat. Pfl.-Fam. II. 6, p. 129, 

 fig. 128, H, J, K. 



Ophrys paludosa Linn. Sp. PI. p. 947 ; Richter Codex, n. 6849 ; Houtt. 

 Nat. Hist. XXX. (1780) p. 516. 



Orchis paludosa Pall. ' Reise III. p. 320.' 



Epipactis ptaludosa F. W. Schmidt, ' in Mey. Phys. Anfsatz, (1791) p. 245.' 



Hammarbya paludosa O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. II. p. 665. 



A little Orchid, about 15 cm. or more in height. Pseudbulb ovoid 

 or ellipsoid, green, about 5-6 mm. long, clothed with old soft pale sheaths 

 at base, the younger one encircling with the basal sheath of leaves, a new 

 plant forming at the side of the old. Leaves few, elliptical-obovate to 

 oblong, obtuse, shortly attenuated below, green, with 3 main nerves, the 

 superior ones vaginate at the base, the uppermost one larger and about 

 1§ cm. long including the petiole, 1 cm. broad. Scape terminal on the 

 pseudbulb, embracing by the vagina of the uppermost leaf, erect, slender, 

 sharply 6-angular, green, glabrous. Raceme erect, slender, spiciform, about 

 8-9 cm. long, rather iaxly many-flowered ; rachis straight, sharply angulate, 

 green ; bract minnte, equal to or a little longer than the pedicel, erect, or 

 erect-patent, ovato-snbulate, acuminate, entire, 1-nerved, concave, green, 

 2-3 mm. long. Flower minute, pedicellate, resupinate, yellowish-green, 

 about 4mm. in diameter vertically; pedicel erect, twisted, shorter than the 

 flower, but slightly longer than the ovary. Sepals very patent, subequal, 

 free, subherbaceous, entire, 1-nerved ; the posterior ones erect, ovate, obtuse, 

 somewhat oblique in form, 2 mm. long ; the anterior one turned downwards, 



