1 98 BALANOPHORE.E. EUPHORBIACE.E. 



branches and the male flowers being more or less complanate. 



Balanophoreae. 

 Salanophora FORST. 



Balanophora morrisonicola HATATA sp. nov. Parasitica. Planta 12- 

 15 cm. alta simplex dioecia cylindrico-teres. Volva subglobosa fulvescens. Scapi 

 $ rubescentes cylindrico-teretes cum spicis circ. 15 cm. longi, pedunculo 7 cm. 

 longo 8 mm. in diametro basi 2-3-squamato ; spica floris $ rubescens cylindrica 

 circ. 10 cm. longa 2 cm. lata dense florata. Fl. $ : majusculi apertientes plus 

 quam 1cm. in diametro valde depressi sessiles l^cm. in diametro transverso 

 IJcm. in diametro verticali, lobis perianthii inaaqualibus 4-6 late rotundatis 

 vel quadrangularibus ; antheras perfecte connate, loculis numerosis plus quam 

 100 in flore singulo. Fl. -9- : dense spicati, spicis rubescentibus ovato-ellipsoideis 

 circ. 7 cm. longis 32mm. latis apice obtusissimis, facie corporibus dense dispositis, 

 corporibus clavato-cubiformibus 1^ mm. longis 1 mm. latis apice truncatis basi 

 stipitiformibus basi ovarii numerosis insitis. 



HAB. Mt. Morrison, leg. T. KAWAKAMI et S. SASAKI. 



Near Balanopliora formosana HAYATA, but distinguishable from it by the 

 ovoid or ellipsoidal spikes of female plants and by the very much larger male 

 flowers with very much more numerous anther-cells. 



Balanophora mutinoides HAYATA Ic. PL Formos. III. p. 168, t. 31. 



Balanophora Kaivalcamii. 



HAB. Mt. Arisan : Nimandaira, leg. B. HAYATA, Mart. 1914. 



B. mutinoides, B. Kaivalcamii are two names given to one and the same 

 species by two different authors. One name should be rendered a synonym of 

 the other. Male flowers creem-yellow, female flowers light reddish-purple. 



Euphorbiaeeae. 

 Cyclostemon BLUME. 



Cyclostemon karapinense HAYATA sp. nov. Arborescens vel fratex. 

 Kami graciles cinerascentes longitudinaliter rugulosi, cortice plus minus fisso, 

 lenticellis minutis haud distinctis, ramulis foliiferis gracillimis in exsiccato 

 fusco-nigricantibus paucissime hirsutis subrectis. Folia alterna remote disposita 



