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lEuonymus echinatus Forbes et Hemsl. 1. c. p. 119, quoad 

 pi. Luchu., non Wall. 



Peduncles axillar}^, very short, with minute bracts ; pedicels 

 gracile, 1-3-fasciculate, much shorter than the leaves, about 

 1 cm. long, oppositely bi-bracteolate below the middle. Capsule 

 small, with the persistent calyx at the base, very deeply 4- 

 parted ; divisions rounded, compressed, smooth, glabrous, about 

 5 mm. broad. 



Nom. Jap. Yambaru-mayumi (Yasusada Tashiro). 



Hah. LIUKIU (Herb.! T. Makino, commun. Z. Tashiro); 

 Hanedzi-magiri in Isl. Okinawa, mountain (Y. Tashiro ! herb. 

 Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Feb. 1887), Near Mt. Nago-dake in 

 Isl. Okinawa (S. Tanaka ! herb. ibid. May 20, 1891), Isl. 

 Okinawa (J. Matsuhura ! herb. ibid. 1897), Kunchan in Isl. 

 Okinawa ( Y T . Tashiro ! herb. ibid. Feb. 1887, juvenile, under 

 the name of 'Euonymus japonicus Yar. radicans Miq.?'; H. Ku- 

 roiwa ! herb. ibid. Aug. 1898), Isl. Iheya (H. Kuroiwa ! herb, 

 ibid. Aug. 1898). 



Juvenile one. — Stem scandent, diffuse, radicant with ramose 

 fibrous roots, with erect or ascending branches, slender, green, 

 glabrous, 4-striate as are the branches. Leaves opposite, 

 petiolate, often small or very so, 3-70 mm. long, 2—25 mm. wide, 

 oval, oval-ovate, elliptical, oblong, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, 

 or ovato-lanceolate, often attenuated and obtuse or acutish 

 tipped at the apex, acute at the base, crenate, glabrous, charta- 

 ceous or coriaceo-chartaceous, usually light olivaceous when 

 dried. The plant taken for Euonymus echinatus Wall, (with 

 a Japanese name of Tsuru-mayumi) by Dr. Tokutaro Ito, is 

 the juvenile form of E. Tashiroi Maxim. E. echinatus Wall, is 

 not found anywhere in entire Japan, and Dr. B. Hayata's 

 Formosan species of this name (Fl. Mont. Formos. 1908, p. 

 69.) is E. Spraguei Hayata. 



Panicum indicum Linn. Mant. p. 184. 

 Panicum indicum ft. contractum Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 163. 

 Panicum indicum Yar. /?. contractum Franch. et Say. Enum. 

 PI. Jap. II. (1879), p. 163, pro parte, non Mi£. 



