63 



Pittosporum illicioides Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo. XIV. (1900) 

 p. 31 (Pars 1), et p. 32. (With Figure.) 



Inflorescence umbellate on the top of branchlets of this (erroneously 

 " last " loc. cit. p. 33) year, shorter than leaves, laxly 3-10-flowered ; 

 pedicels straight, narrow, glabrous, erect-patent or patent in the surround- 

 ings, 14-30 mm. long. Flower dia>cious, 7-8 mm. long, about 10 mm. 

 across ; bud oblong, pale viridescent. Sepals 5, small, erect- pa tent, sometimes 

 sliortly connate at the base, more or less unequal-sized, ovate to lato-ovate, 

 obtuse, thicker towards the centre and base, sometimes ciliated, 2-3 mm. long, 

 pale viridescent. Petals 5, patent then more or less reflexed above, erect as 

 if form a broad tube below, angustato-oblong. somewhat spathulate, rounded- 

 obtuse, entire, about 10 mm. long, i-3 mm. broad, thickish, glabrous, 

 yellow but lighter below, vertically 3-nervate below and ramoso-venulose 

 above. Stamens 5, erect, shorter than petals, glabrous, longer than the 

 pistil and 7 mm. long in the male flower, but shorter than the pistil 

 and 5 mm. long in the female flower ; filament stout-filiform, longer than 

 the anther, yellow or yellowish-viridescent ; anther triangular-ovate and 

 2^ mm. long in the male flower, but angu.sta to -deltoid and 1^ mm. long 

 and without pollen in the female flower, subobtuse and submucronate 

 at apex, auriculate at 'base, introrse, yellow ; pollen yellow. Ovary ovoid, 

 thinly puberulent, shortly substipitate, about 2 mm. across, pale viridescent ; 

 style erect, shorter than the ovary, stout ; stigma terminal, depressedcapitate 

 and fulvo-yellow in the female flower, but not capitate and not thick in 

 the male flower. Flowers in May. 



Hab. Prov. Hauima : Mt. Masui and Hiromine (K. Uceda ! Oct. 23, 

 1901), Near Mt. Okishio {K. Ikeda ! May 25, 1902), Kashima-mura 

 ([/. garni \ May 1904). 



I am indebted to Mr. Uchi Ogami for living specimens of flowers of 

 this rare species. 



Malaxis paludosa (Linn.) Sw. ' in Vet. Akad. Nya Handl. Stockh. 

 XXI. (1800) p. 235, tab. 3'; Houtt. Linn. Pfl.-Syst. XI. p. 608; Willd. 

 Sp. PI IV. p. 91 ; Pers. Syn. PI. II. p. 514 ; R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. 

 ed. 2, V. p. 208; Spreng. Syst. Veg. III. p. 740; Reichb. Fl. Germ. 

 Excurs. p. 134 ; Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. 3, p. 604 ; Lindl. Gen. 

 et Sp. Orchid, p. 24 ; Ledeb. Fi. Ross. IV. p. 51 ; Boswell Syme, Engl. 

 Bot. IX. p. 135, tab. 1489 ; Benth. Handb. Brit. Fl. ed. 5, p. 435 ; Hook, 

 fil. Stud. Fl. Brit. Isl. ed. 3, p. 384 ; Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXIV. 



