46 THE JOURXAL OF JAPANESE BOTANY. [voi. iii. xo. 12. 



Sasa hidaensis Making, nov. sp. 



Eliizome hypogaeous, creeping, rooting. Culnas attaining about 2 m. in 

 height, erect, slender, terete, fistulöse, green, softly jjuberulous with retrorso- 

 patent pale hairs, about 2|-4| mm. across; node prominent, densely pubescent 

 with patent white hairs; internode with white bloom under the node. Leaves 

 flabellately arranged towards the top of culms, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, 

 acuminate with a sharp point at the apex, obtuse or acute at the base, 

 spinuloso-ciliated on margins, cliartaceous, deep-green and glabrous above, 

 paler and often very thinly pubescent beneath (hairs dense on both sides of 

 the midrib), 20-28 cm. long, 2-5 cm. wide; midrib slender, prominent beneath, 

 pale; veins 8-10 on each side; veinlets finely tessellate; petiole compressed, 

 about 3-11 mm. long, glabrous, white- bloomy ; ligule short and broad, rounded 

 on margin, coriaceous, minutely puberulous dorsally, about 1| mm. long; sheath 

 closely encircled the branch, closely many-striate, glabrous, with white bloom 

 above, ciliated with pale spreading hairs on margins-, appendages of the 

 shoulders flabellately setaceo-fimbriate, deciduous, 3-6 mm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Jfishn-zasa (meaning a Sasa of the province of Hida) (nov.). 



Hah. Prov. HIDA ( = HISHÜ): Takayama (T. Making! August 1924, 

 August 1925.). 



Rubua pseudo-Sieboldii (Making) ^Making, nov. comb. 



Ruht(s Bucrgeri rar. pfifiido-Sii'boIdri Making in Journ. Jaj». Bot. III. 4, 

 (1926), p. 13. 



Stem very elongately sarmentose, attaining about 2 m. in length, terete, 

 woody, ]iubescent, thinly armed with retrorso-patent subarcuate spiniform little 

 prickles, attaining about 5 mm. in diameter, rooting and with a bud which 

 develops to a new plant at the end; floriferous stem erect, flexuous, about 

 2-3 decim. high. Leaves alternate, long-petiolate, sub-reniformly or broad- 

 ovately orbicular or broad-ovate, truncate or cordate with a widely open sinus 

 at the base, rounded or obtuse with an acute point at the apex, very shallowly 

 5-lobed, sharply denticulate, green and sula-glabrous above, softly gilvo-pubes- 

 cent and reticulately venose beneath, chartaceo-coriaceons, attaining about 

 182 cm. long, 14 cm. wide; petiole stout, pubescent, thickish at the base, at- 

 taining about Sj cm. long. Raceme very short, axiUary, few-flowered; rachis 

 densely gilvo-pubescent ; bract small, laciniated. Flowers very shortly pedicellate, 

 approximate each other. Calyx with remaining numerous filiform filaments; lobes 

 5, spreading in fruit, deltoid-subulate, acuminate, densely pubescent, about 9 

 mm. long. Drupelets sub-numerous, in a small round aggregation, red and juicy 

 when mature; stone ovate, slightly compressed, pale, wrinkled, about 2 mm. long. 



Nom. Jap. O-fuynichifjd. 



Hab. JAPAN, southern. 



This is perhaps a hybrid between Jinbus Biicrgeri Mi<i. and R. Sv'hnhJii Bl. 



Celastrus stephanotiifolius (Making) Making, nov. comb. 



Cclastnis arvi<:nl<it,ji< rar. t<ti'phanotrlfolivs Making in Journ. Jap. Bot. III. 



