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serrulate with minute and incumbent teeth, membranaceous, hispidulous 

 along the nerves, 4-18 mm. long, 4-14 mm, wide, deciduous ; lateral veins 

 about 4 to 6, erect-patent, connecting above ; veinlets reticulated, with one 



or a few simple or branched free venules within areoles. Flower 



Berry shortly pedicellate, globose, truncate and surrounded with a circular 

 calyx-limb at the top, glabrous, scarlet, about 7 mm. across. Seeds small, 

 many, obovate, trigonous, about li mm. long, very minutely and finely 

 striate longitudinally, orange-coloured. 



Hah. Prov. Shimotsuke : Nikko {li. Yatahe ! July 1877). 



Phytolacca ( Euphy tolacca) japonica Makino Notes on Jap. PI. XV. 

 in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, VI. 1892, p. 49. 



Habit of P. acinosa Roxb. var. Kcempferi (A. Gray) Makino, but 

 berries depressed- globose, composed of entirely confluent 7-10 carpels, about 

 8 mm. across, t^hiiiing, with persistent styles at the top and deeply concave 

 in centre, black and filled with purple juice when matured. 



Hab. Prov. Tosa : Nanokawa (K. JVatanabel May 30, 1886); Mt. 

 Imano (T. Makino \ Aug. 7, 1889), Kusugami {T. Mahino\ June 1893); 

 Prov. MusASHi : Chichibu {T. Maldno\ July 18, 1888); Prov. Shimotsuke: 

 Nikko, cult. {T. Makino \ Sept. 1901), Mikouchi near Ashio, cult. {T. 

 Makino\ Sept. 1901). 



An allied species of Phytolacca acinosa Roxb. var. Kcempferi (A. Gray) 

 Makino, which is common in Japan, but the berries are very different, and 

 its rachis of raceme is often purple in fruit. It is often cultivated, and 

 the leaves are used as a vegetable, as also 



Phytolacca acinosa Roxb. ^. Kaempferi (A. Gray) Makino, nom. 

 wow. = Phytolacca Kcempferi A. Gray Bot. Jap. 1859, p. 404; Miq. Prol. 

 Fl. Jap. pp. 125, 301. = R acinosa /9. esculenta Maxim, in Ind. Sem. 

 Hort. Petrop. 1869, Suppl., p. 23 ; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 

 385. = P. octandra Thunb, Fl. Jap. p. 389; Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. Fam. 

 Nat. in Abhandl. Akad. Muench. IV. 2, p. 166 ; Hoffm. et Schult. Noms 

 indig. PI. Jap. 1853, Paris, p. 60, non \Ani]. = Sjooriku, vulgo Jamma 

 Gobo Ivempf. Amcon. Exot. 1712, p. 828, cum icone. 



Cotyledon (Umbilicus, Orofctachys) Iwarerge Makino sp. uov. 

 Stem short, erect, or ascending, leafy, without stolon, 15-28 cm. in height 



