Ariur, loio.] MAKINO.— OBSERV. ON THE FLORA OF JAPAN. 73 



Cotyledon malacophylla Pall, is found in Hokkaido (K. 

 Miyabe and Y. Tokuhuchi) and the province of Tsushima (Z. 

 Tashiro). 



Asparagus pygmseus Makino, nora. nov. 

 Asparagus lucidus var. pygmseus Makino in Bot. Mag., 

 Tokyo, XI. (1897), p. 281, et XV. (1901) p. 106. 

 Nom. Jap. Tachi-tenmondo . j 

 Icon. linuma, Somoku-Dzusetsu, YII. n. 7. 

 Hah. Japan, cultivated. 



Arisaema (Pedatisecta) Takedai Makino, sp. nov. 



Perennial, about 5-6 \ decim. high. Corm depressed-glo- 

 bose, densely rooting at the neck, turioniferous ; turio ovoid or 

 globose, about pea-sized. Cataphylla thinly membranaceous, 

 delicately nerved, the superior one narrowed above, cylindrical- 

 ly encircled the lower portion of petiole. Leaves 2, long- 

 petiolate, pedati-sectecl with divaricated rachises, the superior 

 one larger ; segments 9—19 in the superior leaf, and 7-17 in 

 the inferior leaf, narrowly oblong or oblong-elliptical, acuminate 

 with a sharp point, cuneate or cuneato-acute at the base, entire, 

 membranaceous ; middle segment largest, petiolulate (the petio- 

 lule 1-20 mm. long), that of the inferior leaf 10-14 cm. long, 

 3§— 5 cm. wide, that of the superior leaf smaller ; lateral seg- 

 ments sessile and gradually decreasing in size outwards (the 

 ultimate one about 2J-6Jcm. long, |-2cm. wide); midrib prom- 

 inent beneath ; veins delicate, numerous, erect-patent, subpar- 

 allel, connecting with an intramarginal vein ; petiole erect, terete, 

 smooth ; vagina beyond the middle, greenish-pallid, with pallid 

 striate-spots, 23-40 cm. long, the mouth oblique, thin, crispate, 

 the free portion about 12-17 cm. long in the inferior leaf, but 

 7—10 cm. long in the superior leaf. Peduncle about equal to 

 the inferior leaf in height, erect, terete, smooth, the free portion 

 greenish-pallid but purpurascent above, • 13—18 cm. long. 

 Spathe : tube erect, convolute and tubuloso-infundibuliform, 

 pallid, with purpurascent colour, 6-7 cm. long, the mouth ab- 

 ruptly truncate and recurved on margin ; limb large, fornicately 



