April 25. 1916.1 T. MAKIXO.—CnXTlilB. TO FLOBA OF JA PAX. j 



scabro-ciliated on margin, glabrous and green above, tbinlv pubes- 

 cent and paler beneatb, coriaceo-chartaceous, narrowly pale-decaved 

 in Avinter on margin, about 11-21 em. long, 3-4| cm. wide; midrib 

 slender, pale, prominent beneath; veins 7-10 on each side; veinlets 

 minutely tessellate beneath, very finely striate above; petiole flat, 

 pulverulent at the base in front, often purpurascent, 3-9 mm. Ion«-; 

 ligule short, truncate, densely puberulent dorsally, about 1^ mm. 

 long; sheath chartaceo-coriaceous, very thinly pubescent (hairs finally 

 fallen off), striate, often purplish, fimbriate at the mouth at first. 



Nom. Jap. Tokugaira-znsa (nov.). 



Eab. Prov. SAGrAiVII: Hakone (K. Hisafchi ! Jan. 15, 1913; T. 

 ^^LkinoI July 1915). 



A bamboo resembling S:isa Tsuboiana ÄL\kixo and S. nipponica 

 Makiso et Shibata. I have dedicated this neAv bamboo to Marquis 

 ToRiMicHi ToKUGAWA, Avho has the perticular interest on bamboos. 



Brassica japonica (Thuxb.) Makixo in Bot. Mag., Tokvo, XXII. 

 (1908), p. 161. 



Si napis Japonica Thuxb. Fl. Jaji. (1781). p. 262. 



Yar. indivisa Makixo, nov. var. 



Leaves densely cpespitose, long-petiolate, undivided, spathulato- 

 oblong, obtuse Avith a mucronate or mucronato-acute tip at the apex, 

 narrowly and gi-adually attenuated and decurrent at the base, 

 remotely sulilobate, very depressedly mucronato-subdentate. 



Nom. Jap. Jlihu-na. 



Eab. Prov. SAG.UII : Yamakita, cultivated (K. Hisaichi! Feb. 

 15, 1915). 



Hamamelis bitchuensis Making, nov. sp. 



A small deciduous tree; branches glabrous; branchlets often 

 slightly flexuous, erect-patent, terete, thinly dispersed with punctate 

 sUghtly elevated lenticels, glabrous, but new one densely covered 

 with pale-fulvous stellate hah-s; bud very densely covered with 

 fulvous stellate hairs. Leaves alternate, j)etiolate, rhomb eo-orbicular 

 rhombeo-oval or rhombeo-eUiptical, somewhat obhque in form, suddenly 

 short-acuminate with an obtuse tip at the apex, unequally auriculato- 

 cordate at the base, depressedly repand-crenate, chartaceo-coriaceous, 

 green above, glaucous or ueai'ly so l^eneath, covered with stellate 

 pale soft hairs (those of the under surface longer) on both surfaces 

 (hail's fulvous and dense on the midrib and veins on both surfaces). 

 3-11 cm. long, 2-8| cm. wide; midrib prominent beneath, shallowly 

 impressed above, subflexuous; veins loose, alteniate, erect-patent, 

 slender, prominent beneath, shallowly impressed above, scarcely 



