60 THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. rvoi.xxiii.mp.*?. 



This parasite grows on root of trees in the shady woods 

 in the mountainous i-egion of the central and northern parts of 

 the main land of Japan. The materials (alcoholic) are due to 

 the kindness of Prof. S. Kusano and Mr. M. Kamiya, who 

 collected them themselves. 



Explanation of Plate III.— Fig. 1-3, Plants, natural size. Fig. 



4, A part of the head, with Bowers and spadiccous bodies, magnified. 

 Fig. 5, Female flowers and a spadiceous body, magnified. 



OTHERODENDRON Makino, gen. nov. 



ELMODBNBRON Franch. et Sav., non Jacq. fil. 



CASSINB Kuntze, non Linn. 



Celastrese, Celastraceas. 



Flowers dioecious, rarely tending to polygamous. Catyx 5- 

 parted, persistent ; segments erect, imbricated. Petals 5, wide- 

 infundibuliform together, patent above, alternate with calyx- 

 segments, larger than the calyx, inserted on the back under the 

 edge of the disk, imbricated in aestivation, deciduous. Stamens 



5, inserted on the back under the edge of the disk or on the edge, 

 alternate with the petals and shorter than them ; filament 

 short and subulate, incurved ; anther introrse, broadly ovate, 

 dehiscing longitudinally ; pollen oblong, smooth, 3-sulcate 

 longitudinally. Disk conspicuous, flesh}', cupule-form, lining 

 the calyx-tube but the edge shortly free and sinuate, surround- 

 ing the ovary. Ovary ovoid, sessile, nearly free from the 

 disk but the very scarcely adhering to the base of it by its 

 very base, 2— locular ; style short and thick ; stigma 4— divided ; 

 ovules 2 in each loculament, erect and the raphe adnate to the 

 axis, anatropous. Fruit capsular, ellipsoid or oblong, original- 

 ly 2-locular but becoming 1— locular by the combination of the 

 2 loculaments from the disconnection of the narrow dissepiments, 

 1—2— very rarely 3— seeded, dehiscing septicidally into 2 carpels ; 

 carpel thick, coriaceous. Seeds supporting on the columnal 

 base of the axis, erect, exarillate ; testa thin and fleshy, colour- 

 ed, veined ; albumen copious, carnose ; embrj'O occupying the 

 axis of the albumen, large ; cotyledons broad, flat, foliaceous ; 

 hypocotyl minute, terete,, inferior, near to the hilum. 



