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It grows on a large trunk of a Quercus in the broad leaved forests at 

 Niniandairn in Mt. Arisan. It was brought back by myself to the Koishi- 

 kawa Garden. 



Taeniophyllum sp. 



HAB. Bauchoryo : Koryohei, leg. T. KAWAKAMT et U. MORI, Nov., 1907. 



The only ToemopkyQum from the island. No flowers indeterminable. 



Liliacese. 



Aspidistra attenuate, HAYATA sp. nov. Herba perennis. Rhizoma re- 

 peus incrassatuni semi-teres, 1 cm. in diametro supra foh'atum subtus radices 

 teretes emittens approximatim nodosum, apice squamis ovatis lanceolatis 10- 

 30 cm. longis basi 4-5 cm. latis instructum, alabastro foliorum conico-ovoideo 

 acuminate, squamis cuspidato-ovatis involucrato. Foh'a e facie superiore rhizo- 

 matum oriunda longe petiolata, cum petiolis 125 cm. longa, laminis oblanceolata 

 80 cm. longa 8 cm. lata apice acute basi attenuata ad petioluni gradatim abeuntia 

 utraque glabra plus minus obliqua, costis supra sulcatis, subtus proniinenti- 

 h'bus, petiolis teretibus 30-40 cm. lougis superiore alatis, inferiore supra sul- 

 catis multo-striatis, basi plus minus dilatis, rhizoma semi-amplectantibus. 

 Scapi e latere rhizomatum 1-florati 6 cm. longi graciles erecti basi 2-3 

 squamati, sqimmis ovato-triangularibus imbricatis, superiore 1-squamati, 

 (squamis ovatis 1 cm. longis aruplexicaulibus) apice sub floris singulis l-*2- 

 bracteati, bracteis ovatis 1^ cm. longis, alabastrum florum amplectantibus, 

 bracteis squamisque tenuibus nervosis. Periauthium late cylindricum apice 

 campanulatum 24- cm. longiun 2 cm. latum apice 7-8-lobatum, lobis recurvis 

 triaugularibus 7-8 mm. longis crassiusculis extus planis intus 3-costatis plus 

 minus tuberculatis, costis deorsum divergentibus ad medium tubi gradatim 

 evanescentibus sursuni versus apicem lobi convergentibus, margine tenuibu;s 

 lamellatis subintegris, sinubus inter lobos spiuie plicatis, partibus tubulatis 

 basi leviter cordatis contractis in longitudinal! sectione extus planis intus 

 leviter costatis, utraque facie parce nigro-punctatis. Stamina 7-8, lobis 

 perianthii opposita, pulvinis infra medium tubi adnata, sessilia, antheris 

 elongato-olilongis 2^ mm. longis 2-locularibus. Ovarium late conicum 2 mm. 



