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

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

 kawa Garden. 



Tseniophyllum sp. 



Hab. Balnchoryo : Koryohei, leg. T: Kawakami et U. MoKr, Nov., 1907. 



The only TceniophyUnm from the island. No flowers indeterminable. 



l-,iliaee8e. 



Aspidistra attenuata Hayata sp. nov. Herba perennis. Rhizoma re- 

 pens incrassatum semi-teres, 1 cm. in diametro supra foliatum subtus radices 

 teretes emittens approximatim nodosum, apice squamis ovatis lanceolatis 10- 

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

 acuminato, squamis cuspidato-ovatis .involuerato. Folia e facie superiore rhizo- 

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

 80 cm. longa 8 cm. lata apice acuta basi attenuata ad petiolum gradatim abeuntia 

 utraque glabra plus .minus obliqua, costis supra sulcatis, subtus prominenti- 

 libus, petiolis teretibus 30-40 cm. longis 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, squamis ovato-triangularibus imbricatis, superiore 1-squamati, 

 (squamis ovatis 1 cm. longis amplexicaulibus) apice sub floris singulis 1-2- 

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

 bracteis squamisque tenuibus nervosis. Perianthium late cylindrieum apice 

 campanulatum 2^ cm. longum 2 cm. latum apice 7-8-lobatum, lobis recurvis 

 triangularibus 7-8 mm. longis crassiuscuUs extus planis intus 3-costatis plus 

 minus tuberculatis, costis deorsum divergentjbus ad medium tubi gradatim 

 evanescentibus sursum versus apicem lobi convergentibus, margine tenuibus 

 lameUatis subintegris, sinubus inter lobos spurie plicatis, partibus tubulatis 

 basi leviter cordatis contractis in longitudinali sectione extus planis intus 

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

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

 elongato-oblongis 2^ mm. longis 2-locularibus. Ovarium late conicum 2 min. 



