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ly placed, sessile; ovary obovate, 1-eelled, with a minnte and sessile stigma 

 at tlie top ; ovules 3-4. Fruit conico-oblong, the surface of the rachis 

 darkish purple ; berries numerous, ronndish-obconical, sessile, scarlet ; seeds 

 1 -2 or 3, ovoid, smooth, stipitate ; albumen copious ; embryo straight, cyUn- 



drical. 



Ao'icm Sazensoo Buerg. ined. ex Blume in Rumphia I. 1835, p. 107. 



Ariscema japonicum /?. Sazensoo Blume 1. c. ; Kunth Enum. PI. HE. 

 p. 19; Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 134, et Cat. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat, Fl. Jap. 

 p. 95 ; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. IT. p. 5. 



Ariscema amurense y. Sazensoo Engl, in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. II. 

 p. 550. 



Ariscema sikohianuni Franch. et Sav. 1. c. II. pp. G, .507 ; Engl. 1. c. p. 

 560 ; N. E. Brown in Journ. Linn. S^c. XVIII. p. 251 ; Makino in Bot. 

 IMag., Tokyo, VII. p. 322, cum var. /3. serratum jMakino. 



Nom, Jap. Yuh'mochi-so (liuuma's Soraoku-Dzusetsu, XIX. tab. 17, 

 three-leaflet form). 



Eah. Tosa: Sakawa (7'. MaJc'nol May 1889, coarsely dentate-leaved 

 form), Shashabu in Chozya-mura (T. Mahino\ May 23, 1889, entire-leaved 

 form), Kusugami at foot of Mt. Yokogura {T. Makino ! June 1893, dentate- 

 serrate-leaved form, denticulate-serrate-leaved form, and entire-leaved form) ; 

 Prov. Iyo : Mt. Nakatsumyozin (K, Okudaira ! May 13, 1895, entire-leaved 

 form); Prov. Hyuga : Mt. Kirishima {R. Fo^a&e and ^. il/afcitw«ra! Herb. 

 Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Aug. 4, 1882, dentate-serrate-leaved form). 



This species is found in the south-western or the warmer part of Japan, 

 exhibiting an attractive appearance which is principally due to the large, 

 snowy white, and globose-clavate appendage of the spadix. The leaves 

 are commonly pedately divided into 5-segments in the normal state ; but 

 3-segment-leaves are sometimes met with. The condition of the ternately 

 divided leaves are truly not the constantly fixed form, but is always replaced 

 by the proper 5-segment form. Leaves of 5-segments have a close resem - 

 blance to those of Ariscema amurense Maxim,, so that sterile specimens 

 of the two are frequently confused with each other. 



Arissema (Pedatisecta) heterophyllum Blume in Paunphia I. p. 110 ; 

 Schott Prodr. Syst. Ar<dd. p. 55; Kunth Enum. PL III. p. 20 ; Miq. Prol. 

 Fl. Jap. p. 134, et Cat. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat., Fl Jap. p. 95.; N. E. 

 Brown in Journ. Linn. Soc. XVIIL p. 250; Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, 

 XL 1897, p. 33. 



