Japanese Species of Triuridaceae, 



( Preliminary No te) 



By 



Tokutaro I to, Rigaku-Hakushi, 



Mr. Makino, in 1902, published in this Magazine, the first 

 record of the occurrence of a new species of Triuridaceae in 

 Japan. This was followed, in 1905, by a second species, also 

 new, from the Island of Shikoku. The genus Sciaphila, to which 

 both species were referred, including as it does about thirty 

 species representing so much diversity in the structure of flowers, 

 suffered some confusion. Recent investigation, by Mr. W. 

 Botting Hemsley, F. R. S., 1} however, has cleared up this point, 

 and the establishment by him of a new genus, Seychellaria, seems 

 consequently to require the re-examination of the described 

 species. Short studies on the Japanese species have led me to 

 make the following suggestions : — 



1. Seychellaria japonica mihi. 



Sciaphila japonica Makino in Tokyo Bot. Mag. vol. XVI, 

 1903, p. 211, et vol. XIX, 1905, p. 141; Matsumura, Index PI. 

 Jap. vol. II, p. 31. 



Japan : Hondo, in the provinces of Ise and Owari ; also in 

 the Islands of Shikoku and Kyushu. 



This appears to me a valid species, coming close to S. nana 

 (Blume), 2> from which, however, the Japanese plant differs by 

 the flowers having caudate-acuminate perianth-lobes. It is also 

 allied to the figures of S. macra. (Schlcchter et Schumann), 

 in SCHUMANN and Lauterbach's 'Nachtrage zur Flora der 



\\\ BOTTING IIi:m-i.j;y : Two new Triuridaceae, with fome Remarks on the 

 Sciaphila, Blume. (Annala of Botany, vol. XXXT, 1907, pp. 71-77, with 2 

 plates). 



'■> C. L. I J i.i" m i Museum Botanicum Lugdnno-Batavorum, vol. I, 1851, p. 322, 



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