LORANTHACE/E. UUTICACE^:. Ill 



Loranthaeese. 

 Loranthus LINN. 



Loranthus Ksempferi MAXIM. Mel. BioL IX. p. 612; FRANCE, et SAY. 

 Enum. PI. Jap. II. p. 482; MATSUM. Ind. PL Jap. IT. 2, p. 48. 



HAB. Nanto : inter Ushoko et Keitao, leg. R. KANEHIIIA et S. SASAKI, 

 No. 92. 



Resembles very much the named species. As the specimen lacks flowers, 

 the determination is rather conjectural. 



Urticaeese. 



Ficus LINN. 



In working up the genus, I found it extremely difficult to follow the system 

 given by GEORGE KING in his elaborate work, " The Species of Ficus of the 

 Indo-Malayan and Chinese Countries," in Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden, 

 Calcutta, Vol. I. (1887-1888); for the herbarium-materials can never be sufficient 

 enough to consider the characters of all the kinds of flowers. To meet the 

 practical purpose, I did not follow any system, but classified the species, according 

 to their leaves, habits and shapes of the receptacles, without going into details 

 as to the characters of flowers. 



Key to species. 



1. Scandent or creeping shrubs 2. 



Erect shrubs or trees 8. 



2. Adult leaves less than 1^ cm. long ; prostrate ; receptacles nearly globose, 



less than 1cm. in diameter 1. F. vaccinioides. 



Adult leaves more than 2 cm. long, (if smaller, neither creeping nor 

 prostrate) - 3 . 



3. Receptacles smaller than 1^ cm. in diameter 4. 



Receptacles more than 3cm. in diameter 6. 



4. Stem very slender, scandent but not prostrate ; leaves linear obovate entire 



