Maywnj r. MAKINO.— OBSERVATIONS OF THE FLORA OF JAPAN. \\\ 



corolla. Stamens 5, exserted, 3-3 | cm. long. Style longer 

 than the stamens. 



Nom. Jap. Shide-satsuki (no v.). 



Hah. Prov. MUSASHI : Tokyo, cultivated (T. Makino !); 

 Prov. IWASHIRO : Koriyama, cultivated (S. Tamaki ! May 

 24, 1910). 



A garden form. 



Scirpus lacustris Linx. var. Tabernaemontani (Gmel.) 

 Trautv. ex Regel in Act. Hort. Petrop. YII. (1881), p. 559. 



forma zebrina Makino. 



Juncus zebrinus Hort. Angl. ex Andre, Illustr. Hortic. XXVII. 

 (1880), tab. 393. 



Scirpus Tabernasmontani var. zebrina Nichols. 111. Diet. 

 Gard. III. p. 392. 



Scirpus lacustris var. zebrina Hort. ex Bailey, Cycl. Amer. 

 Hortic. IV. p. 1632. 



Scirpus lacustris var. Tabernaemontani forma albo-viridis 

 Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XXVI. (1912), p. 213. 



Nom. Jap. Shima-futoi. 



Hab. JAPAN, cultivated. 



Polygonatum ibukiense Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, 

 XXI. (1907), p. 139. 



Polygonatum Periballanthus var. ibukiense Makino, 1. c. 

 XII. (1898), p. 229, et XV. (1901), p. 151. 



Polygonatum nipponicum Makino, 1. c. XVII. (1903), p. 51. 



Rhizome hypogseous, terete, long, horizontal, white, with 

 roots. Bracts involucliform, 2—5 in number, ovate or lanceo- 

 late, obtuse or subacuminato-obtuse at the apex, rounded-obtuse 

 at the base, scabrous on margin, membranaceous, unequal in 

 size, with 7—9 main nerves, largest in the outermost one, 1|— 3 

 cm. long, J— If cm. broad. Flowers about 1—2 cm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Ibuki-waniguchi. 



Hab. Prov. IWASHIRO ? (K. Nemoto !); Prov. OMI : Mt. 

 Ibuki (Y. Kawasaki ! 1906); Prov. TSUSHIMA : Kuda-toge 



