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THE ^^^, ^ 



OF jäpäneseIötany 



EDITED BY 



T. MAKING. 



LECTURER OF BOTANY IN THE SCIENCE COLLEGE, 

 IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY OF TOKVO. 



Vol. 



AprU 5, 1916. 



(JANUARY NUMBER.:' 



No. 1. 



Published bv the SHOKüBursr-KENKTü-ZASSHi-SHA. 

 Xo. 30, lIorikaM-a-Cho, Hongo-Ku, Tokyo, Japan. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Tcmitaro Makiiio : — A Contribiition to the Knowledge of the Flora of -Tapan. . 1 

 ARTICLES [X .TAPAX'ESE (l) 



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A Contribution to the Knowledge of the 

 Flora of Japan. 



Bv 



Tomitaro Makiuo. 



Deutzia Nagurai Making, nov. comb. 



Deidzl'i grucilis var. Nagurai IMaktno in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XXVII. 

 (1913), p. 254. 



A small deciduous shi-ub ; branches terete, fistulöse, smooth, 

 pale-avellaneous ; young branchlets sterue or floriferous, opxiosite, 

 erect-patent, terete, substriate, smooth, glabrous, perulate at the base, 

 the floriferous ones short, about 1-3 cm. long in flower; j)erulte firmly 

 membranaceous, marcescent, gilvo-avellaneous, many, adpressed, 

 opposite, deltoid-subulate, but shorter and deltoid in the outer ones, 

 sharply acuminate, subcarinate, thinly covered ^^■ith stellate hairs in 

 the inner ones, the innermost one attaining about 6 nmi. long. 



