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14, 1884), Siiiiaura {T. Makinol Oct. 1890, Sept. 7, 1893); Prov. Tosa : 

 Kaida in Nagaoka-goii (S. Yam ! herb 1. c. July 25, 1890) ; Prov. Suo : 

 Ochi-imira {D. Nihai\ lierU 1. c. June IG, 1899). 



Alisma reniforme Don I'rodr, PI. Nopal, p. 22 ; Sjireng'. Syst. Veg. 

 IV. Pers II. p. 144; Kuntli. Eniim. IM. III. p. 15 1 ; Wight Ic. tak 

 322; Benth. PI. Austral. VII. p. 186; Hook. fil. PI. Brit. Ind. \l. p. 

 560 ; Makino in Bet. Mag., Tokyo, VIII. 1894, pp. 172, 380. 



Alisma parnassifolium V. Muell. Pragm. Phyt. Austral, VIII. p. 214, 

 et Sec. Syst. Gens. Austral. PL I. 205, non Bassi. 



Alisma imrnassifoliiiAii j3. majus Micheli in DC. Monogr. IMianerog, 

 HI. p. 36. 



Alisma calophy/lum Wall. 



Hab. Prov. Kadzusa : Ilongo-niura (Herh. ! Sc. Coll. Inij). IJuiv. 

 Tokyo, Aug. 13, 1880); Prov. Shimoosa: Mama (T. Makino \ Sept. 1891); 

 JVov. MuSASin : Negishi in Tokyo {T. JFakinol Aug. 12 and 17, Sept. 

 Oct. 1888). 



Asparagus lucidus Lindl. var. pygmeeus Makino in Bot. Mag., 

 Tokyo, XI. 1897, p. 281. 



Densely ca3spitose, quite glabrous, deep-green, attaining about 38 cm. 

 in height. Hoots densely fasciculate, thick and fleshy, oblong- fusiform 

 with long fibrous tails which have sliort rootlets. Stems herbaceous, 

 erect, slender, angulatc, but terete below, branching, assumiug a form of 

 narrowly pyramidal in outline ; branches ascending or erect-patent, tricpie- 

 trous above but (j[iiadrangular below. Leaves squamiform, deltoid-subulate, 

 membranaceous, minutely spinescent at the base, those of the lower 

 portion of the main stem elliptical-ovate and not s[>inescent. Cladodes 

 3-4-nate, une(|ual in length, erect-patent, acicular, ialcute U[)wards, trique- 

 trous with smooth margins, sharply tapering, -^-2J cm. long, ^-1 mm. 

 broad. Plower unknown. 



Hah. Prov. Tosa : Sakawa, cult (T, Maldnol Dec. 1892); Prov. 

 MusASHi: Tokyo, Bot. Gard. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ., cult. {T. Malcinol 

 Aug. 1901). 



An well-marked variety. It is to be seen only in garden, and they 

 are always sterile, as far as I know ; so we are (juite ignorant about the 

 flower. 



