4 THE JOÜR^sAL OF JAPANESE BOT ANY. I'^'oi- t. No. i- 



at the apex, entire and not ciliated on margin, glabrous on both 

 surfaces, green and slightly shining above, light green and dispersedly 

 minute-punctate under lens beneath, thickish and subcoriaceous, or 

 somewhat flaccid, 2|-8J cm. long, 1|-4| cm. broad; midrib paler and 

 prominent beneath; veins 5 to 10 on each side, loose, erect-patent, 

 delicate; veinlets inconspicuous; petiole thick, shallowlj canaliculated 

 in front, rounded dorsally, smooth, glabrous, 3-6 mm. long. Panicle 

 (fructiferous) tei-minal, about 2|-104 cm. long, 3-10 cm. broad, py- 

 ramidal, oppositely ramose; rachis and branches glabrous or slightly 

 pubescent, umber; branches and branchlets divaricato-patulous or 

 erect-patent. Fruit shortly pedicellate, accompanied by the persistent 

 4-parted calyx at the base, ovoid-oval, rounded-obtuse at the top, 

 6-8 mm. long, smooth, glabrous, black when mature but not glaucous. 



Nom. Ja J). Oka-ibota (nov.). 



Hab. Prov. SAGAAII: Akiya (K. Hisauchi ! Nov. 21, 1915). 



This species is very closely allied to Ligustrum ovalifoUum Hassk. 

 (=^L. medium Franch. et Sav.), but it has the ovoid fruit, thinner 

 and slightly shining leaves. Leaves are very variable in form and 

 size. It is commonly growing wild on sea-side hills in the prov. 

 Sagami and the southern part of the prov. Musashi. I have named 

 this species in honour of Mr. Kiyotaka Bjsauchi, who was kind enough 

 to give me the specimen collected by himself. 



Yar. pubescens Makino. 



Leaves pubescent along the midrili beneath. 



Nom. Jap. Yabu-ibota (nov.). 



Hab. Prov. MUSASHI : Yokohama (K. Hisauchi ! Dec. 5, 1915). 



Colocasia antiquorum Schott, Meletem. I. p. 18. 



Yar. multifolia Makino. 



Colocasia nmllifoUa Hort. Jap. 



Colocasia antiquorum var. confluens Making in Iinuma, Somoku- 

 Dzusetsu, ed. 3, IV. 19 (1912), p. 6. 



Corm subterranean, widely turbinate, subtruncate and with many 

 buds at the top, attainmg about 14 cm. long, rooting below; branch- 

 corms few to several, depressed-turbinate, subtruncate and with 

 many buds at the toj), subconfluent to the main central corm in the 

 inferior ones but greatly confluent in the upper ones, and entirely 

 confluent in the uppermost ones; whole corm attaining about 17 cm. 

 in diameter. Leaves smaller, green; petioles numerous, ctespitose, 

 jxirpurascent. 



Nom. Jap. Yatsugashira-iuv). 



Hub. JAPAN, cultivated. 



{To be continued.) 



