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Sedum Sieboldi Sweet var. erectum Maldno nov. var. 



Stem erect, simple ; internodes short, much shorter than the leaves. 

 Leaves 3-nate, approximate, patent, obovato-orhicular, broadly cuneate towards 

 the base, entire-margined, not crenate. Flowers as in the type. 



Hah. Prov. Muhashi : Tokj'o, Bot. Gard. Koishikawa, cult. (Herlx ! Sc. 

 Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Oct. 22, 1879 ; T. Maldno ! 1890). 



Peperomia (Micropiper) japonica Makino sp. nov. 



Succulent perennial, quite green, attaning 10-33 cm, in height. Roots 

 fibrous, emitting from the base of stems, darkish. Stems tufted, erect, 

 succulent, terete, not angulate, jointed at nodes, loosely ramose above with 

 1, 2, or verticillate branches, or sometimes simple, subtilely pubescent with 

 minute sliort soft and erect hairs, light green, attaining 9 mm. across, 

 remaining during 3 years and then decaying; internodes longer or shorter 

 than leaves ; branches erect-patent or patulous, terete, simple, jointed to 

 the stem. Leaves 3-6 or sometimes 9-verticillate, patent, petiolate, ovate, 

 subrhondieo-obovate, or subrhombeo-obovate-elliptical, rounded-obtuse at apex, 

 obtuse or cuneato- obtuse at the base, entire, succulent, but membranaceous 

 and very minutely grittering nigro-punctate under lens in dried state, plane 

 on both surfaces, shining and subtilely pubescent and ciliated with very 

 minute and erect hairs, green above, paler beneath, |-4| cm. long, ,i-3icm. 

 broad, 5-nerved, but both outermost ones very weak, the nen^es hardly 

 visible superficially ; petiole shorter than the blade, subterete, more or less 

 flat in front, subtilely pubescent, 2-18 mm. long. Spikes ertct or ascending, 

 simple, terminal and axillary, unequal in length, shortly pedunculate, 

 3-11 cm. long, li-2i mm. across; rachis fleshy, slenderly terete, glabrous, 

 but subtilely pubescent in the peduncle, light green, miiuitely nigro-punctate 

 under lens when dried, slightly foveolate in the inserted place of flowers. 

 Flowers njinute, achlamydeous, numerous, sparsely disposed, sessile. Bract- 

 scales minute, closely ])laced under each flower, thick, peltate, oval at the 

 face, glabrous, light green, minutely nigro-punctate under lens when dried, 

 persistent. Stamens 2, hypogynous, lateral, patent; filament filiform-cylin- 

 drical, longer than the anther, white; anther oval, dorsifixed, extrorse, 2-celled, 

 with white jicdlen. Ovary 1, ascending, obovuid-globose, sessile, glabrous ; 

 stigma terminal, sessile, [lauci-penicillate ; ovule solitary. Berries nearly 

 dried, minute, obovoid-g](jbi)se, minutely granula to-papillose or granulato- 

 pnnctate, lesser than 1 mm. in length, accompanied by the bract-scale 



