Observations on the Flora of Japan, 



(Continued from vol. XXII. p. 176.) 



By 



T. Makino. 



Assistant in Botany, Science College. 

 Imperial University of Tokyo. 



EMENDATA; 

 Vol. XXII. page 165, line 15, for Bretschen. read : Bretsclin. 



— — — 166, ■ — 4 from bottom, for ore read: more. 



— — — 167, — 12, for Most, read : Mon. 



— — — 169, — 14 from bottom, after Cynqnchum dele: , 



— — — 171, — 7, for ruburiflora read: rubriflora. 



— — — 173, — 14, for X. read: n. 



— — — 176, — 15 from bottom, for Kaic.-Dah. read: Baic.-Dali. 



— — — — — 7 — — for Enkoso read : Enko-so. 



— — — 178, sinistral side, line 24, for glandiflorum read: grandiflorum. 



— — — ■ — dextral side, — 3 from bottom, for Twbocapsicum read: 



Tubocapncum. 



Suaeda japonica Makino, sp. nov. 



Annual, glabrous, about 2\— 5 decim. high, often densely 

 panieuliform. Stem herbaceous, but then lignescent below, 

 often fastigiately ramose above the base, terete ; branches 

 slender - , terete, sparsely with leaf-scars in fruit ; branchlets nu- 

 merous, ascendingly erect-patent, sulcato-striate as are the upper 

 portion of branches and purple in fruit. Leaves erect-patent 

 or spreading, sessile, terete, intermixed with a hardly clavate or 

 oblong or obovato-oblong ones, sometimes scarcely plane on the 

 upper side, straight or arcuate inwards, acutish-obtuse or obtuse, 

 somewhat shortly attenuated at the base, marked with 2 fine 

 lines on both lateral sides, carnose, purple, finely minute-granu- 

 late on the surface under lens, inermed, 4-34 mm. long, 2^—4 mm. 

 across. Glomerules exactly axillary, sessile, closely 2— about 

 10-flowered mixed with male-flowers, 4-7 mm. across in fruit, 

 subrcmotely or approximately arranged, sometimes compact 

 towards the summit of branchlets. Calyx in fruit carnose, 



