Feb. mo.] MAKINO.-OBSER VATIONS ON THE FLORA. 31 



Nom. Jap. Ito-tade, Yaozen-tade. 



Hah. Japan, cultivated. 



Icom. Iinuma's Somoku-Dzusetsu, VII. n. 57. 



Bulbophyllum (Cirrhopetalum) japonicum Makino, 

 nom. nov. 



Cirrhopetalum japonicum Makino, 111. Fl. Jap. I. no. 7 

 (1891), p. 1, tab. 42 ; Finet in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, XLVII. 

 (1900), p. 265. 



Nom. Jap. Miyama-mugiran. 



Hah. Osumi : Yaku-shima (T. Makino ! Sept. 1909). 



Smilax China Linn. Cod. n. 7441. 



var. biflora (Sieb.) Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XIV. 

 (1900), p. 184. 



Smilax hiflora Sieb. ex Miq. in Versl. en Meded. Kon. Akad. 

 Wet. 2 ser. II. p. 86, et Prol. Fl. Jap. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.- 

 Bat. III. p. 149 ; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. VIII. p. 410 ; Franch. 

 et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. II. p. 49 ; A. DC. Monogr. Phanerog. I. 

 p. 49. 



Dioecious, pygmy, sometimes attaining about 4 decim. in 

 height. Rhizome slender, loosely nodulose, fulvous, rooting ; 

 roots spreading, ramose. Stem erect below, but declinate and 

 spreadingly ramose above, flexuous in zigzag form and angulate 

 and viridescent as well as branches and brachlets, loosely 

 aculeate with straight prickles. Leaves 4—22 mm. long, 3—20 

 mm. broad ; petiole 1J-4 mm. long ; tendrils minute. Fruit 

 small, globose, smooth, about 5 mm. in diameter. 



Nom. Jap. Hime-kwakwara, Hime-sarutori. 



Hah. Prov. Osumi : Yaku-shima, mountains (C. Owatari, 

 herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo; T. Makino I Sept. 1909). 



Usually in cultivation ; found growing spontaneously on 

 mountains in Isl. Yaku-shima. 



Ranunculus acris Linn. Cod. n. 4089, var. japonicus 



(Thunb.) Maxim. Fl. Tangut. n. 28, et Enum. PI. Mongol, n. 38. 



Ranunculus japonicus Thunb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. II. p. 337. 



