26 THE JOURNAL OF JAPANESE BOTANY. LVoi. m. Xo. 7. 



A deciduous shrub; brancli€s rufous. Leuves oblong or ovato-oblong, deep 

 green above, silvery beneath. Pseudo-drupe to\vards the base of the branchlets of 

 this year, 1-3 to a leaf-axil, oblong, pendulous, concave on both ends, very thinly 

 dispersed with pale minute lepides, smooth, shining, red when ripe, about 12mm. 

 long, 7mm. across ; pedicel elongate, silvery, rufous and gradually thickened towards 

 the fruit, about Sjcni. long. 



Kom. Jap. Tsuhiha-gumi (nov.). 



Hab. Prov. HITACHI : ISIt. T^ukuba (T. Maicix(- ! July 29, 192:5.). 



Vitis flexuosa Thuxb. var. tsukubana ^Iakino, nov. var. 



Leaves thinly hairy beneath. 



Nom. Jap. Usuge-scinkakudzuru (nov.). 



Hah. Prov. HITACHI : Mt. Tt,ukuba (T. :\rAKix<)!). 



Polygonatum siivicolum ^Tarixo, nov. sp. 



Ivhizniiie tliifk. Slein attaining about Im. in lieight, terete, slender or stout, 

 green. Leaves distichous, alternate, narrowly oblong or oblong, green on both 

 surfaces, triplinerved. Flowers pedicellate, pendulous, tubular, greenish, binate, or 

 solitary, or sometimes ternary. Berry globose. 



iSom. Jap. Yama-iiaiukoyiiri. 



Hah. Prov. HITACHI : Mt. Tsukuba (T. Makixo!). 



Pirola Maximowicziana INIakixo, nov. nom. 



Flrola elliptic'x var. miuor Maxim, in M6\. lÜol. VIII. p. C23. 



Nom. Jap. Koha-no-icldyahis6. 



Hah. JAPAN, shady mountains. 



Eriocaulon robustium (^Iaxim.) i\rAKixo, nov. comb. 



Eriocauloii alpi'slrc ji. roLusivs Maxim. Diagn. PI. Nov. Asiat. VIII. (1892), p. 25. 



Nom. Jap. Hiioka-no-inunohige. 



Hio JAPAN, common. 



Erigeron canadensis L. var. levis ]\lAKrx( , nov. var. 



Stem and Itaves glabrous. Flowers later than those of the type. 



Nom. .lap. Kenashi-himemuLashiyomogi. 



Hab. Prov. KII : Hongu (T. ]\Iakixo !). 



Chrysanthemum lavandulaefolium jMakixo, var. hortense i^iAKixo, nov. 



var. 



About 5 decim. high. Stem ramosg, flexuous, light green, pubescent but then 

 glabrate except the upper portion. Leaves petiolate, ovate or elliptical in outline, 

 pinnatiHd with a few irregularly dentate erect-patent lobes and close and acute 

 sinuses, light green, glabrous and lately often shaded with purple above, paler and 

 thinly puberulent with white soft hairs beneath. Heads numerous, loosely collected, 

 with pedicels which are lately more or less cernuous, about 2cm. across, yellow. 

 Eay-flowers many, oblong, attenuated into a tube below, pistillate. Disk-fiowers very 



