﻿iMK] OBSERVATIONS ON THE FLORA OF JAPAN \\ 



Perennial , Kespitose. Fruit large, depressed-globose, irregularly and 

 thinly silicate towards the truncate base, osseous, 13-14 mm. across. 



Nom. Jap. Oni-juzudama. 



Hab. Japan, rare. 



Fruits are sometimes made into a rosary, which is called " Irataka no 

 Juzu " (the rosary of Irataka) by some religious people. 



var. frumentacea Maid no. 



Ooix agrestis Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 161 ; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PL Jap. 

 II. p. 157; Hack. Enum. Gram. Jap. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. VII. p. 638, non Lour. 



? Coix Lacryma c. Toomuki Sieb. Syu. PL Oecon. Jap. in Verh. 

 Batav. Gen. XII. (1830) p. 10. 



Annual. Fruit ellipsoid, shortly beaked with an oblique orifice, very 

 shortly contracted at the base, light fuscous, longitudinally striped, crus- 

 taceous, not thick, 8-9 mm. long excepting the beak. 



Nom. Jap. Shikoku-mugi, Hato-mugi. 



Hab. Japan, introduced, not indigenous. 



Cultivated for its edible grains. 



Vitis flexuosa Thunb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. II. (1793) p. 332. 



a. typica Planchon in DO. Monogr. Phanerog. V. p. 347. 



Scandent, attaining a great length, interruptedly cirrhiferous ; branches 

 slender, flexuous, glabrous even when young, finely striate. Leaves petio- 

 late, ovato-deltoid, or slightly depressed ovate, acuminate or cuspidate, 

 broadly truncate to truncato-cordate, depressed-dentate with a nmcronate 

 point, often somewhat shortly 3-angulato-lobate above, sometimes deeply 

 3-lobed, membranaceous, glabrous above, pubescent to tomentose with rufous 

 hairs on veins or only pubescent with crispate hairs in axils of veins 

 beneath, 3-llcm. long, 3-9cm. wide ; veins slender, palmately 5-7 at the 

 base, the lateral ones 3-4 on each side ; petiole slender, shorter or slightly 

 longer than the blade, glabrous, 2-9 cm. long. Thyrse leaf-opposite, pe- 

 duncled, simple or divaricately few-branched below, usually shorter than 

 leaves ; rachis and branches often thinly tomentoso-villose with ferruginous 

 hairs ; bracts minute, deltoid-subulate, villose. Flowers fasciculate, pedicel- 

 late ; pedicel longer than flowers, glabrous, gracile. Male flower : calyx 

 annular; petals oblong, nearly 2 mm. long; stamens 5, with filaments of 

 2 mm. long ; anther ovate ; disk thick, large, 5-lobecl, truncate. Berry 

 globose, black, about |-| cm. across, 1-4-seeded. 



