﻿i,o* OBSERVATIONS ON THE FLORA OF JArAN. 5 



Lonicera linderifolia Maxim, in ' Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. XXIVi 

 p. 50/ et in Mel. Biol. X. p. 77 (1877) ; French, et Sav. Enum. PI. Japi 

 II. p. 653 ; Render, Syn. Lonic. in Miss. Bot. Gard. XIV. (1903) p. 63 = 

 tab. 1, %. 7-9. 



Nom. Jap. Yalm-liyotambohu (nov.). 



Hab. Prov. Shinano : Mt. Yatsugatake (S. Ikenol herb. Agric. Coll. 

 Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Aug. 10, 1904); Prov. Rikuchu : Mt. Hayachine (T> 

 Mahinol Aug. 3, 1905). 



Ophiorrhiza Kuroiwai Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, X. (1896) p. 

 68, n. 134. 



Stem erect, shrubby, dichotomously ramose ; branches erect-patent, 

 minutely pubescent, foliiferous above. Leaves opposite, petiolate, elliptical, 

 oblong-elliptical, or ovate-elliptical, obtuse or acutish, obtuse or acute and 

 often attenuato-decurrent to the petiole at the base, entire, minutely 

 ciliated, thickly herbaceous, thinly scattered with pubescent hairs on both 

 surfaces but hairs denser on the midrib and veins beneath, darkish-rubicund 

 when dry, 2-7cm. long, lj-3lcm. broad ; midrib prominent beneath ; veins 

 erect-patent, arcuate upwards, 6-10 on each side ; petiole minutely pubescent, 

 3-10 mm. long; stipule deltoid-subulate, much attenuateclly tapering, shorter 

 than the petiole. Inflorescence terminal, with an erect strict minutely 

 pubescent peduncle of 1J-3 cm., 3-ohotomous, main branches immediately 

 2-chotomously branched, branches erect-patent, umbellate, secundly and 

 pectinato-approximately many flowered (about 6-20 in number) along the 

 inner side, scorpioid then straight, minutely pubescent, attaining about 

 3J cm. in length; bracteoles very minute, ad pressed, oblong-subulate, 

 ciliolated, persistent, -i-J mm. long. Flowers small, 4-4J mm. long, very 

 shortly pedicellate, truncate at the top in bud ; pedicels erect-patent, patently 

 minute-pubescent, about J mm. long, but 1J mm. long in fruit. Calyx 

 short, |-| mm. long, 5-parted, puberulent ; lobes erect, deltoid, acute, 

 scabro-ciliolated, 1-nerved, prominent on the midrib externally. Corolla 

 tubular, about 3 mm. long, 5-fid, red when dry ; tube about 1-J mm. across, 

 puberulent, villose towards the throat with ascending hairs internally; lobes 

 oblong-ovate, acutish, puberulent internally, with a puberulent thickish 

 carina on the back. Stamens included, inserted at the basal part of the 

 corolla-tube, erect, glabrous, about 1^-2 mm. long ; filament filiform ; 

 anther linear-oblong, equal to or somewhat shorter than the filament. 



