at base, green and glabrous above, paler and white-pubescent on nerves 

 beneath, 4-14 cm. long, 5-18 cm. wide ; lobes ovato-lanceolate, oblong, 

 obovato-cuneate, caudately acuminate, entire or bifid or trifid ; lateral 

 lobules deltoid or angustato-deltoid and obtuse or sharply pointed, smaller 

 and shorter than the mid- lobule ; petiole usually longer than the blade, 

 attaining about 19 cm. in length. Flower Fruit 



Nom. Jap. Yaguruma-kayede (nov.). 



Hah. Prov. Musashi : Mt. Takao {T. Malcino\ Nov. 1903); Prov. 

 MusASHi: Tokyo, Bot. Gard. Koishikawa, cultivated {T. Mahino\ June 

 1904). 



Acer japonicum Thunb. var. Heyhachii Matsum. 



Acer Heyhachii Matsumura in sched. herb. Sc. Coll. Im[). Univ. Tokyo. 



A shrub. Leaves very deeply 9-13-parted, orbicular in outline, 5-12 cm. 

 in each way, deeply cordate at base ; lobes narrowly long-attenuated and 

 entire below, the upper portion ovate or ovato-lanceolate acuminate, deeply 

 pinnato-incised, the lacinse deltoid -ovate or narrowly triangular -ovate, 

 sharply inciso-serrate and sharply pointed, thinly tomentose towai-ds axils 

 of veins beneath and nearly glabrate above in the y(jung one, the lowest 

 lobe smallest; petiole shorter than the blade, villoso -tomentose above. 

 Flower purple, about 8-10 mm. across ; stamens much exserted, with 

 glabrous anthers ; pistil tomentose. Fruit widely divaricate, wings oblong- 

 spathulate, about 2 cm. long. 



Nom. Jap. JlaikuzyaJc". 



Hah. Prov. Owari : Nagoya, cult. {T. Mahino ! Aug. 1899) ; Prov. 

 Musashi: Tokyo, Bot. Gard. Koisliikawa, cult. {T. Jlakinol May 1899, 

 Nov. 1899, June 26, 1900). 



Undoubtedly a garden variety. 



Ardisia (Crispardisia) hortorum Maxim, in Piegel's Gartenfl. (18G5) 

 p. 363, tab. 491. 



Ardisia Tachihana Makino Notes on Jap. PI. XV. in Bot. Mag., 

 Tokyo, VI, (1892) p. 53, nomen tantum. 



Ardisia crispa Le Maout et Decne. Gen. Syst. Bot. trans. Hook. 

 (1876) p. 532, figg., non A. DC. 



An undershrub, attaining about 5 decim. in height ; stem erect, usually 

 simple, or sometimes few-branched, terete, often disjjarsed with lenticels, 



