Observations on the Flora of Japan, 



(Continued from p. 116.) 



By 



T. Makino. 



Lecturer of Botany in the Science College, 

 Imperial University, Tokyo. 



CARDIOCRINUM (Endl.) Makino. 



Lilium sect. Cardiocrinum Endl. Gen. PI. (1836-40), p. 141. 



Bulb-scales few, broad, biennial; new bulbs in the axil of 

 the basal bulb-scales. Stem always rootless above the bulb in 

 the basal portion. Leaves with a distinct long canaliculato- 

 semiterete petiole; blade ample, cordate, with a net- venation ; 

 veins pinnate. Inflorescence constantly racemose; pedicels very 

 short, without bracteole ; bract membranaceous, caducous, or 

 deciduous. Flowers often somewhat gygomorphous. 



Cardiocrinum cordatum (Thunb.) Makino, nom. nov. 



Hemerocallis cordata Thunb. Fl. Jap. (1784), p. 143; 

 G^rtn. Fruct. et Sem. PI. II. (1791), p. 484, tab. 179, fig. 5. 



Lilium cordifolium Thunb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. II. (1797), 

 p. 332; Willd. Sp. PL II. (1799), p. 84; Pers. Syn. PI. I. 

 (1805), p. 358; Spreng. Syst. Veg. IV. (1827), p. 134; Schult. 

 fil. in Rcem. et Schult. Syst. Veg. VII. (1829-30), p. 420 ; 

 Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. I. (1835), p. 33, tab. 13 II. et 14; 

 Kunth, Enum. PI. IV. (1843), p. 268; Lemaire in Van Houtte, 

 Fl. des Serres, III. (1847), tab. 216; Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. in Ann. 

 Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. III. (1867), p. 157; Franch. et Say. 

 Enum. PI. Jap. II. (1879), p. 12; Engler in Engler's Bot. 

 Jahrb. VI. (1885), p. 54; Franch. in Journ. de Bot. VI. (1892), 

 p. 309; C. H. Wright in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXVI. p. 131 

 (1903); Matsum. Ind. PI. Jap. II. 1 (1905), p. 202, nou D. Don. 



Lilium cordifolium Kew Bulletin (1889), p. IIS, pro parte, 

 non Thunb. 



