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Alylosia suhrhombea Miq. Pro!. Fl. Jap. p. 239 ; Franch. et Sav. 

 Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 112, et II. p. 327 ; Kanitz Anthoph. Jap. p. 31. 



Bicnuaria stihrliomlea Hemsl. in Journ. Bot. (1876) p. 207 ; Id. in 

 Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXIII. p. 195 ; Palib. Consp. Fl. 

 Ivor. I. p. 71. 



Hah. Prov. Musashi : Tokyo (Herb. ! Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo) ; 

 Prov. Iyo : Nishiidzumi {K. JVatanabel herb. ibid. Sept. 24, 1891), 

 Komatsn (K. Watanabe ! herb. ibid. Sept. 27, 1891) ; Prov. Suo : Ouchi- 

 miira {D. Nihai ! herb. ibid. Aug. 26, 1892). 



Gentiana scabra Bnnge var. Buerger! Maxim, subvar. angusti- 



folia Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, X. (1896) p. 313. 



Rhizome short, erect, or oblique ; roots thickish. Stems cfespitose 

 with 2-3, erect, simple, slender, terete but tetragonous-terete above, glabrous, 

 often purplish, attaining about 60 cm. in height. Leaves opposite, sessile, 

 linear, acuminate, usually longer than internodes, but the inferior ones 

 lanceolate-linear obtuse and shorter than the superior ones, entire and 

 usually subtilely scabrous on the margin, thickly herbaceous, but coriaceous 

 when dried, glabrous, green above, paler beneath, obscurely triplinerved. 

 Flowers 1-4-aggregate at the top of the stem and axillary above, the 

 size form and colour as in those of the var. Buergeri, but tlie tip of 

 corolla-lobes more acute. 



Hab. Prov. Mikawa : Kameyama-mura in Atsumi-gori (T. 3Iakino ! 

 Oct. 27, 1893), Hosotani-mura {T. Maldno ! Oct. 28, 1894), Takashi-mura 

 {T. MaUno\ Oct. 29, 1894). 



This differs from the typical one and the var. Buergeri, by its linear 

 leaves, having the habit of the European Gentiana Pneumonanthe Linn. 



Alpinia (Catimbium) Kumatake Makino sp. nov. 



Rhizome perennial. Leafy stem erect, slender, attaining about 3^m. 

 in height. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, narrowly acute 

 below, subsessile, long-sheathed, about 54 cm. long, 13^ cm. broad, chartaceo- 

 coriaceous, shining above, nearly concolorous, glabrous on both surfaces, 

 densely and shortly ciliated on the entire and subcallose margin, but free 

 at the lower ; ligule short, ovate, obtuse, ciliated ; sheath narrow, coriaceous, 

 but thin-edged, ciliated on the upper margin. Panicle erect, narrow, 

 raceme-like, rather loosely flowered, about 15cm. long; rachis slender, glabrous 



