5d 



in Japan, and was first discovered by Mr. Yoshima Tokihisa, a student of 

 Kocbi Normal School in the province of Tosa, Shikoku. 



Sciaphila (H-yalisma) japonica Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XVI. 

 (1902) p. 211. 



Hah. Prov. Ise : Hongo in Kusu-mura, Miye-gori {K. Teraoka, K. 

 Iniai, Y. Uyematsu ! Sept. 7, 1902 ; K. hnai ! Aug. 16, 1905 ; T. Malcino ! 

 Oct. 1905), Takakura-yama in Yaniada {K, Kohayaslii\ Sept. 24, 1905); 

 Prov. OwARi : Akitsu-mura {G. Kaioasakil July 5, 1902), Akaha-iuura {S. 

 Gotol Aug. 21, 1905); Prov. Tosa in Shikoku: Chigaido-yama in Karui- 

 yasu, Yasu-mura, Kanii-gori (Y. Tokihisa \ July 26, 1905); Prov. Higo in 

 Kiusiu : Mt. Kibo (H. Kodzuma ! Aug. 31, 1905). 



Saccolabium Toramanum Makiuo sp. nov. 



A little epiphytic orchid, attaining about 7cm. long, glabrous. Rhizome 

 usually simple, creeping, gracile, filiform, radicaut with loose fibrous pale 

 roots, the old portion naked from fallen leave.^, enclosed with short sheaths 

 of leaves throughout. Leaves small, uniform, distichous, spreading, many, 

 snbclosely arranged, ellii)tical to oblong-elliptical or ovato-elliptical, acuto- 

 cuspidate or acuminato-cus{)idate, entire, acute or sometimes obtuse at the 

 base, very shortly petiolate, articulated upon the sheath, coriaceous, chan- 

 nelled, green and purple-maculate, 3-nerved, 5-11 ram. long, 2|-5 mm. 

 broad, persistent. Raceme short, shorter than leaves, approximately 

 2-6-flowered, ped uncled ; rachis short, shorter than the peduncle, often 

 fiexuous, angulate, 1-2^ mm. long ; bract subtending the pedicel, spreading 

 or erect-patent, lato-subulate, acutish, entire, concave, membranaceous, nerve- 

 less, persistent, |-1^ mm. long; peduncles lateral, with 2-3 scales; scales 

 minute, membranaceous, loose, vaginate, obliquely truncate, acutish at the 

 apex, 1-nerved or nerveless, |-2 mm. long, the superior one or two some- 

 times evaginate and lato-subulate being bract-like. Flower minute. Peri- 

 anth patulous, free, entire, one-nerved, concave, membranaceous, thick in 

 centre and carinate dorsally, yellowish-viridescent and blotched with [)urple. 

 Sepals : the upper one subovato-elliptical, obtuse, hardly longer and broader 

 than the lateral ones, about 2§ mm. long ; lateral ones subobovato-oblong, 

 acutish, about 2^ mm. long. Petals slightly shorter than sepals, subovato- 

 elliptical, obtuse, about 2 mm. and -a little more long. Tjalxallum some- 

 what shorter than the perianth, slightly adhering with the base of the 



