Observations on the Flora of Japan. 



(Continued from p. 23.) 

 By 



T. Makino. 



Assistant in Botany, Science College, 

 Imperial University of Tokyo. 



Balanophora nipponica Makino, sp. nov. 



Dioecious, sanguineo-orange in colour; male plant unknown. 

 Rhizome hypoga:ous, tuberous, deeply lobate with subnumerous 

 globular or obovoid-globular volvas, which are ^ — 2\ cm. in 

 diameter, stramineo-amber-coloured, scabrously rough and 

 pustular on the surface ; pustules numerous but rather loosely 

 dispersed and simply substellato-lobulcd, the mouth of volvas 

 cleft into about 4 deltoid or depressed-deltoid lobes. Peduncles 

 one to few to a stock, one to a volva, terminal, erect, stout 

 but often rather slender, terete, straight, smooth, vary in 

 length, about Hem. long and 11cm. across ; scales large, laxly 

 imbricated, erect, oblong, oblong-lanceolate, or ovato-oblong, 

 obtuse, entire, more or less concave, smooth, about 1-^—3 cm. 

 long, 9—15 mm. broad. Head erect, ovoidly cylindrical-oblong, 

 obtuse, about 5 cm. long, 2 cm. across, very densely covered 

 with female flowers and spadiceous bodies. Female flowers 

 exceedingly numerous, very minute, inserted on the head and 

 at the very base of pedicellate spadiceous bodies, which are 

 intermixed with them, rather or very shortty pedicellate; ovary 

 fusiform-ellipsoidal ; style filiform, about 1 \ or 2 times as long 

 as the ovaiy, usually somewhat exceeding the spadiceous bodies 

 in length ; pedicels equal to Of shorter than the ovary ; spadi- 

 ceous body with a short and stout stipe, Bubdepressed-globose 

 or obovoid-snbglobose, often Blightlj concave at the- top. 



blowers in November. 



Xom. Jap. Miyama-tsuchitorimochi (nov.). 



Iltib. PrOV. Sni.MOTsiKi;: Xikko (V. l'chi\;nim\; S. h'us;mol), 

 Ikaho [M. K.-uuivn I) ; l'rov. SADO [G. \\':tt;tn;thc '.). 



