Observations on the Flora of Japan 



{Continued from p. 142.) 



By 



T. Makino. 



Assistant in Botany, Science College, 

 Imperial University of Tokyo. 



Plant ago major Linn. /9. asiatica Decne. in DC. Prodr. 

 XIII. 1, p. 694. 



forma paniculata Makino. 



Spike densely paniculate with numerous (about 30-50) 

 branches. 



Notn. Jap. Hoki-ohako. 



Hah. Prov. Rikuzen : Tome (Gimpe Otsukil Nov. 8, 1907). 



Fagara Hemsleyana Makino, nomnov. 

 Zanthoxylum Hemsleyanum Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, 

 XXI. (1907) p. 86. 

 Hab. Formosa. 



Asparagus (Euasparagus) kiusianus Makino, sp. hoy. 



Perennial, herbaceous, glabrous. Rhizome shortly repent or 

 ascending-repent, thick or thickish, hard, densely covered with 

 scales and old bases of stems, rooting ; roots elongate, 

 strong, numerous. Stems few to several, spreading and assur- 

 gent, angulate, attaining about 8 decim. in length, obscurely 

 flexuous or not, sparse with deltoid scaly leaves towards the 

 base which is free from branch ; branches erect-patent, striato- 

 angulate ; branchlets erect-patent, striate, loosely foliose in 

 flower, internodes about 1—15 mm. long. Leaves obscurely 

 spinoso-calcarate at the base in those in the inferior, deltoid, 

 acute. Cladodia mostly solitary in flower, but after anthesis 

 3— 5— fasciculated, straight or somewhat curvate, sharply taper- 



