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exclusive of the stipe. Male flowers loosely disposed, shortly stipellate, 3-4- 

 androus; anthers purple, with white pollen. Female flowers close-placed, 

 obovato-globose, witli a snbsessile stigrna at the top ; ovules 8-15, ohconical, 

 arranged in a circular manner. Fruit oblong-conical ; berries numerous, 



obovato-globose, scarlet, 6-10 ram. across ; seed with a copious albumen and 

 a straight and cylindrical embryo. 



Hah, ToSA.: Sakawa, cult. {T. Maldno\ 1885), Nanokawa {K. JVata- 

 nahe\ May 6, 1888), Mt. Yokogura ('/'. Maldno\ May 1892, June 1893), 

 Hirose in Tosa-gori {S. Yam ! April 1891) ; Prov. Iyo : Mt. Shiroe-goe 

 (A'. Okudairal Mny 2, 1897), Mt. I^hidzuchi {li. Yatahel Herb. Sc. Coll. 

 Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Aug. 9, 1888). 



This is found growing in forests in mountainous districts of south- 

 western Japan. 



Pinellia tripartita Schott var. atropurpurea IMakino. 

 The limb of the spathe dark-purple internally. 

 Hab. Prov. Shimotsuke: Hachiishi in Nikko, cultivated. 

 Bare ; I have seen only one living specimen cited above. It is figured 

 in Iwasaki's Honzo-Dzufu, XX. fol. 25 verso-26 recto. 



Pinellia ternata (Thunb.) Breitenb. in Bot. Zeit. 1879, p. 687, figs. 1-4. 



Arum ternatum Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 233 ; Willd. Sp. PI. IV. p. 481 ; 

 Pers. Syn. PI. II. p. 574 ; Breitenb. 1. c. ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 342, in nota. 



Ariscema ternatum Schott. 1832 ; Ejusd. Prodr. Syst. Aroid. p. 60 ; 

 Zolling. Syst. Verz. Ind. Archip. I. 1854, p. 76. 



Atherurus ternatus Blume in Rumphia I. p. 136 ; Kunth Enum. PI. 

 III. p. 54. 



Pinellia tuherifcra Tenore, 1830 ; Schott Prodr. Syst. Aroid. p. 20 ; 

 Miq. Pro]. Fl. Jap. p. 133, et Cat. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat., Fl. Jajx p. 95 ; 

 Franch, et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. II. p. 3 ; Smith Contr. Mater. Med. et 

 Nat. Hist Chin. pp. 149, 172 ; Hanb. Sc. Pa]-, p. 262 ; P)retschn. Bot. Sinic. 

 in Journ. Chin. Branch. Roy. Asiat. Soc, N. Ser. XXV. p. 239 ; Engl, in 

 DC. Monogr. Phancrog. II. p. 566 ; Ejusd. in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. VI. p. 52 ; 

 Ejusd. in Engl, et Prantl Die Natiirl. Pflanzenfam. II. 3, p. 151 ; Ejusd. 

 in Diels Fl. Centr.-Chin. in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. p. 236 ; N. E. 



