Jan. wis.] T. MAKINO— OBSERVATIONS ON THE FLORA OF JAPAN. 



crowned by the marcescent perianth, globular, about 3 mm. 

 across, with membranaceous carpels, transversely ruptured 

 between the ridges. Seeds very numerous, minute, oblong, 

 elliptical, or fusiform, yellow, about £ mm. long ; testa thin, 

 inconspicuously reticulated, slightly loose ; embrvo obovatelv 

 oblong or elliptical, cellular, a little shorter than testa. 



Nom. Jap. Ruri-shakudyo, Yayeyama-shakudyo. 



Hah. YAYEYAMA ARCHIP. : Mt. Fazan in Okawa-mura, 

 Isl. Ishikaki (Setsusaburo Tanaka, June 28, 1891) ; LIUKIU : 

 Nago-mura in Kunchan-gori, Isl. Okinawa (Yoyemon Xakano ! 

 Aug. 9, 1912). 



Burmannia cryptopetala Makino, sp. nov. (Fig. II.)* 

 A terrestrial plant, about 6-17 cm. high, erect, aphyllous, 

 white, glabrous ; roots hypogasous, fibrous, fasciculate, radiate, 

 filiform and often thickish, terete, glabrous, simple or very 

 loosely ramose with patent branches, with a filiform vascular- 

 bundle in centre. Stem solitary, slender, often rather stout, 

 simple, or rarely 1— branched above, terete, smooth, diaphanous, 

 f— If mm. across. Scales small, distichously or subsparsely 

 alternate on the stem throughout, remote but closely placed at 

 the base, adpressed or erect-patent, l|-6 mm. long, amplexicaul, 

 each with a young flower, which, at length not developed, in the 

 axil, ovate to ovato-subulate, obtuse- or acutish-tipped, entire, 

 membranaceous, 1— nerved ; the superior ones subconduplicate 

 and subcarinate dorsally, subfornicate at the apex. Cyme 

 with 2-7— flowers, or 1— flowered ; rachises of the cyme dichoto- 

 mously 2, secundly 1-3-flowered, attaining about 1 cm. in 

 length, stright, erect-patent or nearly erect, rather stout, 

 angulate ; pedicels short or very so, straight, 1—2 mm. long, 

 triquetrous ; bracts laxlj- placed, scaly, adpressed or erect-patent, 

 about -1-6 mm. long, amplexicaul, membranaceous, 1-nerved, 

 subulate or oblong-subulate, obtuse to acuminate at the apex, 

 obscurely serrulate, carinate dorsally. Flowers erect, close 

 each other, acute and continued to the pedicel at the base, 



Figure will appear in the fore-coming number 315. 



