Observations on the Flora of Japan 



(Continued from p. 18.) 



By 



T. Makino. 



Assistant in the Botanical Institute, Science College, 

 Imperial University of Tokyo. 



{With Plate 2.) 



Balanophora fungosa Forst. 'Char. Gen. (1776) p. 99, 

 tab. 50'; Lam. Encycl. tab. 742; Richard, 'Elem. d. Bot. (1833) 

 tab. 15' ; Spreng. Syst. Veg. III. p. 765 ; Hook. fil. in Transact. 

 Linn. Soc. XXII. (1856) p. 46, tab. 8; Eichler in DC. Prodr. 

 XVII. p. 145; Benth. Fl. Austral. VI. p. 232; Engler in Engler 

 et Prantl, Nat. Pfl.-Fam. III. 1, p. 161, fig. 166 A, H. 



Cynomorium fungosum Raeuschel 'ex Steud. Nomencl. ed. 1, 

 p. 252'. 



Cynomorium Balanophora Willd. Sp. PL IV. p. 177; Pers. 

 Syn. PL II. p. 529. 



Cynomorium parasiticum Sw. 'ex Steud. 1. c.' 



Cynomorium australe Hook. fil. 1. c. (sphalm.). 



Rhizome thick, tuberous, lobulate, minutely verruculose. 

 Scape erect, thick, about 2j-4cm. long, enclosed with imbri- 

 cated scales. Heads ovoid to oblong-ellipsoid, bisexual, 2-4 \ cm. 

 long, lj-2Jcm. across. Male flowers 8-10 mm. across. Peri- 

 anth-lobes usually 4, sometimes 3 or 5, reflexed. 



Nom. Jap. Shima-tsuchitorimochi (nov.). 



Hah. Yayeyama Archip. (H. Kuroiwai). 



New to the Flora of Japan, 



Distrib. Tanna island in New Hebrides, and Tropical 

 Australia. 



var. Kuroiwai Makino var. nov. 



Balanophora Kuroiwai Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XYL 

 (1902) p. 212, in nota. 



