Observations on the Flora of Japan." 



Fasciculus II. 1902. 

 By 



T. Makino, 



Assistant in the Botanical Institute, Science 

 College, Imperial University of Jokyo. 



Cymbidium Kanran Makino sp. nov. (1900). 



Terrestrial. Pseudo-bulb not large, ovoid, attaining about ITnini. 

 across, subterranean or nearly so; scales several, subulate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 membranaceous, many-nerved, carinate dorsally, imbricately and closely equi- 

 tant, the largest one about 10cm. in length, at last drying away; roots fibrous, 

 simple, thick, spongy, whitish. Leaves tufted, 4 or 3 to a bulb, recurved, 

 linear or broadly linear, acuminate, gradually narrowed below, canaliculate in 

 front and carinate dorsally towards the base, dilated and embracing the 

 pseudo-bulb at the very base, coriaceo-chartaceous, but firmly coriaceous below, 

 entire but serrulato-scabrous above, shining above, nearly concolorous beneath, 

 2-7 decim. long, 6-17mm. broad ; midrib slender, prominent beneath; main 

 nerves 2 to 3 on each side, hardly prominent in living specimens. Scape 

 lateral, erect from the base of the pseudo-bulb, attaining about 25-60cm. 

 in height including the raceme, green, often purplish, sheathing; sheaths 

 membranaceous, narrowly lanceolate acuminate and tubular below, remotely 

 placed above, but gradually closed and gradually decreasing in size below, 

 imbricated in the basal ones, closely many-nerved. Raceme more or less 

 secundly and loosely 5 to 12-flowered ; rachis shorter than the peduncle, 

 slender, terete, smooth ; bracts linear, acuminate, shorter than the ovary, 

 3 to several-nerved, 8-28mm. long. Flowers 5-6cm across, very fragrant. 

 Perianth viridescent, purple in centre in the inner perianth, entire, 5-nerved. 

 Outer perianth patulous, bnjadly linear, very sharply acuminate ; the superior 

 (truly inferior) one 3-4cm. long, 3i-4^mm. broad ; lateral ones a little 

 shorter than the superior one, hardly oblique in form. Inner perianth 

 erect-patent, shorter than the outer one, lanceolato-linear, scarcely oblique 

 in form, sharply acuminate, hardly carinate behind below, 2- nearly 3cm. 

 long, 4^-5lmm. broad. Labellum a little shorter than the inner perianth, 

 horizontal, sessile with the obtuse or rounded-obtuse base, glabrous, hardly 



* BoTAXicAL Magazine, Tokyo, Vol. XVI. (1902). 



