mura ! herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo), Misawa in Nikko {K. Sawada ! 

 herb. ibid. June 14, 1878), Mt. Nyoho in Nikko {H. Taheda ! Aug. 18, 

 1901, July 20, 1902); Prov. Shinano : Mt. Komagatake {R. Yatabel herb, 

 ibid. July 27, 1880), Near Honzawa on IMt. Yatsugatake {K Taheda ! July 

 26, 1903); Prov. Tosa : Mt. Kuishi {S. Yano\ June, 8, 1889) ; Prov. 

 IwASHiRo : Mt. lide {G. Nahahara ! Aug. 1904) ; Mt. Adzuma {G. Naha- 

 hara ! June 1904) ; Prov. Uzejt : Mt. Katta {G. Nahahara ! June 25, 1904). 

 The smallest one among the Japanese Listera. 



Calypso bulbosa (Linn.) Reichb. fil. var. japonica (Maxim.) Makino. 



Calypso japonica Maxim, ex Komar. Fl. Manshur. I. (1901) p. 533, 

 in nota. 



Calypso hidhosa Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XVI. (1902) p. 177, 

 non Eeichb. fil., excl, syn. 



A beautiful orchid, all the parts larger than the type. Leaves soli- 

 tary, petiolate ; blade spreading, ovato-elliptical, obtuse or subcordate at 

 the base, plicate, crispate, green above, purple beneath, 7-nerved, attaining 

 about 4| cm. long, 2| cm. broad. Scape clothed with long sheaths for the 

 greater part; bract angustate, acuminate. Flower solitary, terminal, large 

 and showy, drooping. Perianth nearly equal, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 spreading, ascending, rose-coloured, about 2 J cm. long. Labellum large, 

 inflated, saccate, pendent, about 3 cm. long, darkish-striato-punctate on the 

 pale dorsal surface, yellow in the projecting bifid point ; lamina dilated, 

 shorter than the point, white-rosy, with a tuft of densely barbate j^ellow 

 hairs and a few brown spots at the base. Column broadly winged, convex, 

 rounded, petaloid, rose-coloured ; anther inserted just below the apex. Ovary 

 narrowly clavate,' pedicellate. 



Nom. Jap. Hotei-ran (Ventricous Orchid). 



Hah. Prov. JSuKUGA : Mt. Fuji; Prov. Sagami : Hakone ; Prov. Riku- 

 ciiO : Nambu {Chonosidce [TscJionosJci] Sugatva, 1865-66). 



Rare. I have seen only on figures. 



Goodyera Schlechtendaliana Reichb. fil. in Linnasa, XXII. (1849) 

 p. 861; Walp. Ann. III. p. 597; Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 141; Franch. et 

 Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. IL pp. 38, 519 ; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. XIL p. 927 ; 

 Makino, 111. Fl. Jap. I. n. 6 (1890), p. 3, tab. 39 ; Diels in Engler's Bot. 

 Jahrb. XXIX. p. 269 ; Rolfe in Jouru. Linn. Soc. XXXVI. p. 46. 



