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Lilium callosum Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. I. p. 86, tab. 

 41. 



var. flaviflorum Makino, var. no v. 

 Flower yellow. 



Nom. Jap. Kibana-no-nohimeyuri (Yasusada Tashiro). 

 Hab. LIUKIU : Isl. Okinawa (Y. Tashiro ! herb. Sc. Coll. 

 Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Aug. 1887). 



Malva verticillata Linn. Sp. PI. p. 689. 



/?. crispa Linn. 1. c. 



Malva crispa Linn. Syst. ed. 10, p. 1147. 



Nom. Jap. Oka-nori (meaning Land Porphyra). 



Hab. JAPAN, cultivated. 



Rare. 



Amorphophallus kiusiana Makino in Sched. Herb. Sc. 

 Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo. (Fig. V.) 



Amorphophallus Konjac var. kiusiana Makino in Bot. 

 Mag., Tokyo, XXV. (1911), p. 16. 



Petiole and peduncle terete (sometimes slightly compressed 

 in the petiole), glabrous, finely striated, dark-viridescent and 

 also often with a fulvous colour, laxly or subdensely blotched 

 with pale irregular spots, which are often more or less virides- 

 cent except the border. Leaves : rachis and rachilla dark- 

 viridescent and laxly blotched with pale vertical spots. Leaf- 

 segment : midrib much prominent and veins more or less 

 prominent beneath but impressed above. Berries numerous, 

 closely placed each other, obovato-ellipsoid, smooth, at first 

 green, then reddish-purpurascent before ripen, and soon after 

 become deep-blue when mature ; spadix cylindrical, spongy 

 within. 



Nom. Jap. Yama-konnyaku (meaning Hill Konjac). 



Hab. KIUSITJ, southern. 



For the valuable material my thanks are due to the kindness 

 of Messrs. Y. Nakano, B. Fukasawa and Z. Tashiro. 



