Observations on the Flora of Japan. 



{Continued from p. 38.) 



By 

 T. Makiiio. 



Assistant in Botany, Science College, 

 Imperial University of Tokyo. 



COEKECTION. 



Page 37, line lo, for "graduations" read: gradations. 



Rhododendron macrosepalum Maxim, in Mel. Biol. 

 YII. p. 335 (1870), in Kegel, Gartenfl. (1870) p. 258, tab. 662, et 

 Rhod. Asiae Orient, p. 31 ; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 290. 



Azalea macrosepala Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL II. p. 387. 



Nom. Jap. Mocbi-tsutsuji. 



Hab. Japan, spontaneous and cultivated. 



var. linearifolium (Sieb. et Zucc.) Makino. 



Rbododendron linearifolium Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. 

 in Abhandl. Akad. Muench. IV. 3, p. 131 ; Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. 

 Lugd.-Batav. I. p. 34, et Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 97 ; Maxim. Rhod. 

 As. Orient, p. 34 ; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 290. 



Azalea linearifolia Hook. fil. in Bot. Mag. tab. 5769 ; Kuntze, 

 Rev. Gen. PI. II. p. 384. 



Nom. Jap. Seigai-tsutsuji. 



Hab. Japan, cultivated. 



A garden variety ! . 



Rhododendron (Tsusia) ripense Makino, sp. nov. 



Rhododendron macrocepalum Maxim, in litt., non Mel. Biol. 

 YII. p. 335 et alibi. 



A shrub, about Im. or more in height, denseh- branched ; 

 branches verticillate ; branchlets directed upwards, subsetoso- 

 pilose. Leaves aggregated towards the top of branchlets, per- 

 sistent, angustato-lanceolate, mucronato- acute or short-acumi- 

 nate, about 2|— 5cm. long, 6— 13mm. broad, chartaceo-coriaceous 

 and often recurvo-patent, but membranaceous and erect-patent 



