Jan i9io.] MAKINO.— OBSERVATIONS ON THE FLORA. 17 



times entire ; petiole attaining about 7cm. in length. Spikes 

 short, forming a narrow panicle ; bracts linear ; bracteoles 

 minute and filiform. Calyx purple, segments carinate. Style 

 exserted. Utricle ochraceous, depressed. 



Nom. Jap. Murasaki-akaza (nov.). 



Hab. Prov. Satsuma, cultivated (T. Makino ! Autumn 1909 ; 

 Y. Yamaguchil 1909). 



ftuercus stenophylla (Bl.) Makino, nom. nov. 



Quercus glauca d. stenophylla Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. I. p. 

 303 (1850) ; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 448, in nota. 



Nom. Jap. Vrajiro-gashi. 



Hab. Prov. Tosa (T. Makino !) ; Prov. Musashi (T. 

 Makino !). 



Myoporum (Pentaccelium) bontioides (Sieb. et Zucc.) 

 A. Gray in Proc. Am. Acad. VI. (1862) p. 52 ; Forbes et 

 Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXVI. p. 250. 



Pentaccelium bontioides Sicb. et Zucc. in Abhandl. Akad. 

 Muench. IV. 3 (1846), p. 151, tab. 3 B ; Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 

 280 ; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 361 ; Wettst. in 

 Engl, et Prantl, Nat. Pfl.-Fam. IV. 3 b (1895), p. 360. 



Plyccelium bontioides A. DC. Prodr. XL (1847), p. 705. 



Myoporum Chinese A. Gray, 1. c. ; Hance in Journ. Bot. 

 (1879), p. 13. 



Polycoelium chinense A. DC. 1. c. p. 706 ; Hance in Ann. 

 Sc. Nat. 5me se V. V. p. 233. 



Plate I. 



An evergreen shrub ; trunk ochroleucous, covered with corky 

 rugose bark ; branches fulvo-ochroleucous, spreading or ascend- 

 ing ; branchlets alternate, erect or ascending, terete, glabrous, 

 smooth, umber but green (often purpurascent-tinged) and folii- 

 ferous towards the top. Leaves sparse, densely crowded 

 towards the top, petiolate, oblong-lanceolate to oblong, acutely 

 or cuneately attenuated and decurrent to the petiole at the base, 

 acuminate with a sharp point, entire but rarely very few depres- 

 sed-dentate above, subcarnose, flaccid, herbaceous, but when 



