dec. mo.] MAKINO.-OBSERV. ON THE FLORA OF JAPAN. 



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Fig. XVIII. 



1, 2. Plants, not. size. 3. Male flower -bud, mag. 4. Male flower, mag. 

 5. Ditto, mag. 6. Female flowers and bract, mag. 7. Female flowers, mag. 



head, sessile or very shortly stipitate, pale. Ovary oval to 

 ellipsoid, more or less fusiform ; style filiform, about 3-times as 

 long as the ovary, usually scarcely exceeding the bracts in 

 height. ,, 



Nom. Jap. Kiire-tsuchitorimochi (nov.). 



