Observations on the Flora of Japan. 



{Continued from p. 20.) 



By 



T. Makino. 



Assistant in Botany, Science College, 

 Imperial University of Tokyo. 



Chamaesaracha Savatieri Makino, 111. Fl. Jap. I. n. 11 

 (Oct. 9, 1891) p. 1, tab. 65. 



Chamsesaracha japonica Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. 11. 

 (1879) p. 454, pro parte. 



Chamaesaracha Watanabei Yatabe in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, 

 V. n. 56 (Oct. 10, 1891) p. 315, tab. 29, et Iconogr. Fl. Jap. 

 I. 2 (1892) p. 115, tab. 32 (fig. mala!). 



Perennial, attaining about 5clecim. in height. Rhizome 

 short, erect or ascending ; main roots few and stout. Stem 

 one, erect, angulato-terete, very loosely few-furcato-ramose, 

 thinly pubescent, green. Leaves solitary, or binate with 

 unequally sized ones, flaccid, shortly petiolate, ovato-elliptical or 

 lanceolato-ovate, acuminate, unequally cuneato-attenuated at 

 the base, entire or obscurely repand, flaccid, dispersedly pubes- 

 cent above, very thinly pubescent on the midrib and veins 

 beneath, minutely ciliated on margin, attaining about 13cm. 

 long, 5icm. broad. Flower axillary, solitary, pedicellate, 

 nutant, about l^cm. in diameter, greenish ; pedicel cernuo- 

 arcuate, longer than the flower, very thinly pubescent, enlarged 

 above, 1^— nearly 2|cm. long. Calyx about 4mm. long, 

 crateriform, 5-angulato-dentate, ciliated, pilose, green, with 5 

 veins and loosely anastomosing veinlets between veins, in fruit 

 accrescent and sparingly muricate. Corolla wide-campanu- 

 late, abruptly constricted at the throat above the base, about 

 l^cm. long, very shallowly 5-angulato-lobed, densely ciliated, 

 very minutely pubescent externally, densely pubescent above the 



