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base ; anther sagittato-oblong, 3mm. long. Ovary ovoid, 

 tapering into the style ; style filiform, glabrous, shortly rostrate- 

 ly projuced from the galea, with a capitate stigma. 



Nom. Jap. Yakushima-shiogama (no v.). 



Hab. Pro v. Osumi : Yaku-shima, mountains (F. Kudo I July 

 1908 ; T. Makino ! Sept. 1909). 



This species grows in the alpestrine parts. I have named 

 this pretty species in memory of Mr. Seikichi Ochiai, a student 

 of the Kagoshima Normal School, who was in the botanical 

 tour with us in the island, September 1909. 



Prunus serrulata Lindl. /?. borealis Makino in Bot. 

 Mag., Tokyo, XXIII. (1909), p. 75. 



Drupes 1-2, subo void-globose or nearly globose, 11-1 3mm. 

 across, black-purple when matured ; pulp succulent, dark-purple, 

 slightly bitter and sweet in taste ; putamen pale-avellaneous, 

 oval-elliptical, slightly compressed, subcuspidato-acute at the 

 apex, obtuse at the base, smooth, very shallowly and broadly 

 subsulcate longitudinally on sides of the suture, shortly sub- 

 ribbed at the base near the suture, 8-8Jmm. long ; pedicels 

 stout, rather short, straight, terete, very slightly gradually 

 enlarged towards the top, glabrous, viridescent but often red- 

 dish above, about 13-17mm. long. Ripen in June. 



Nom. Jap. O-yamazakura. 



Hab. Central and northern Japan, spontaneous. 



Euphorbia sendaica Makino, sp. nov. 



Euphorbia Jolkini Savatier in Iinuma, Somoku-Dzusetsu, ed. 

 2, IX. fol. 21 recto, no. 19, non Boiss. 



Perennial, about 25-30cm. in height ; rhizome elongate, 

 horizontally spreading and sprouting. Stem erect, stout, 



deep-purple, branched towards the top ; branches sterile and 

 only foliiferous but the superior few ones floriferous. Leaves 

 sparse, loose, spreading, lanceolate, acute at the apex, at- 

 tenuated at the base, green but tinged with a purpurascent 

 colour when young, with a white midrib ; terminal ones 5, 

 short. Rays about 5 ; bracts depressed-subrhombeo-ovate, 



