Observations on the Flora of Japan 



{Continued from p. 84.) 



By 

 T. Makino. 



Ainslieea linearis Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XXIII. p. 250 

 (Dec. 20, 1909). = Ainslisea Faurieana Beauverd, Compos. 

 Asiat. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Geuev. 2 me ser. I. (1909), p. 381, fig. 9. 



Rhododendron stenophyllum Makino, nom. nov. 



Rhododendron Metternichii /3. pentamerum forma angusti- 

 folium Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, X. (1896), p. 212. 



Rhododendron Hymenanthes /3. -pentamerum forma angusti- 

 folium Makino, 1. c. XVI. (1902), p. 33. 



An evergreen shrub, ramose ; branches terete, adpressed- 

 tomentose above, loosely dispersed with ovato-lanceolate to 

 broad-linear marcescent (not deciduous) scales about 2cm. long. 

 Leaves spreading or more or less reflexed, approximately crowd- 

 ed on the nodes and at the top of branches, petiolate, linear- 

 lanceolate or linear-oblanceolate, subacute at the apex, cuneato- 

 attenuated at the base, entire, recurved on margin, coriaceous, 

 -glabrous above (but tomentose when young then soon gla- 

 brous), softty fulvo-tomentose beneath, with the very finely 

 impressed reticulated nervation above, 6— 17 cm. long, 7— 25 mm. 

 broad ; midrib straight, stout, prominent beneath ; veins loose, 

 patent ; petiole subterete, straight or arcuate downwards, soft- 

 ly tomentose, 5-20 mm. long. Inflorescence corymboso-race- 

 mose, terminal ; perulae imbricated, broad, rounded to ovato-ro- 

 tund, cuspidate-pointed, ferrugineo-tomentose, deciduous ; bracts 

 narrowly oblong or oblong-lanceolate, thickly membranaceous, 

 deciduous ; bracteoles linear, placed at the base of pedicels ; 

 rachis short, tomentose ; pedicels erect or erect-patent, terete, 

 thinly pubescent, about 2— 2 J cm. long. Flowers about 3 J cm. 

 in diameter, rose-coloured, approximate. Calyx very short, 

 with dentiform teeth. Corolla campanulato-infundibuliform, 



