Codonopsis truncata Wall. 'Cat. n, 1301'; A. DC. * Monogr. Camp.. 

 p. 122/ et Prodr. VII. p. 423. 



Gyclocodon iruncahcs Hook. fil. et Thorns, in Journ. Linn. Soc. II. p. 

 18. 



Campanumcea celebica Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Intl. III. p. 436^ 

 pro parte, non Blume, excl. syn. nonnul. 



Campanuoncea axillaris Oliv. in Hook. Ic. PI. XVIII. tab. 177.0, 

 (1888) ; Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXVI. p. 7 ; Henry in. 

 Trans. Asiat. Soc. Jap. XXVI. Suppl. p. 570. 



? Gyclocodon adnatus Griff. Notnl. Pi. Asiat. IV. p. 278. 



Stem and branches subquadrangular. Leaves lato-lanceolate, attain- 

 ing 12 cm. long, 5 cm. or more broad. Bracteoles sometimes leafy, rarely 

 adnate to the base of the fruit. Fi-uit subdepressed-globose, about li cm^ 

 across. Seed minute, numerous, oval, compressed, smooth, umber-coloured. 



Nom. Jap. Tayigehu (in Amami Oshima). 



Hah. Formosa: Tamsui {Morse); Loochoo: Amami Oshima (Z. Ta- 

 shiro ! herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Sept. 1887), Naze in Amami 

 Oshima (T. Uchiyamal herb. ibid. Dec. 4. 1900), Yaeyama Archip. {Y. 

 Tashiro ! herb. ibid. Aug. 1887). 



New to the Loochoo Flora. 



Cremastra unguiculata Finet in Bull. Soc. Bot. France XLVII. 

 (1900) p. 2G9. 



OreorcMs unguiculata Finet 1. c. XLIII. (1896) p. 698, tab. 14, et 

 XLIV. (1897) p. 70. 



A terrestrial Orchid. Ptoots fibrous, slender, filiform, whitish, densley 

 hairy, issuing ajid spreading from the base of the pseudbulb in the 

 verticillate manner. Rhizome short, wiry, glabrous, ascending, with a 

 pseudbulb at the top. Pseudbulb erect, tuberous, ovoid or globoso-ovoid,. 

 about 12-1.5 mm. long, 7-15 mm. across, smooth, with 2 nodes, loosely 

 covered Avitli marcescent fibres of old vaginre. Leaves 2, situated at 

 the apical end of the pseudbulb, broadly lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 11-17 cm. long including the petiole, 2-3^ cm. broad, entire, sharply acute 

 at the apex, gradually attenuated below into a narrow petiole, subplicate,. 

 glabrous, thinly chartaceous, maculate with purple spots beneath ; tripli- 

 nerved, with numerous and close small veinlets between main nerves; trans- 

 verse venules delicate and loose ; petiole slender, 3-5 cm. long, canaliculate 

 in front, the outer one forming a tubular sheath below and enclosing^ 



