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Nom. Jap. Yama-tokiso. 



Hah. Japan. 



This species is always found in dry places. 



Nervilia nipponica Makino, sp. nov. 



Nervilia punctata Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XVI. (1902) 

 p. 199, excl. syn. Pogonia punctata Bl. . 



Pogonia punctata Makino I.e. III. (1889) p. 44-8, non Blume. 



A small Orchid, attaining about 9 cm. in height, with a sub- 

 terranean globular tuber. Leaf solitary, long-petiolate, cor- 

 dato-orbiculate, subacute, 7— 9-nerved, evolving after flowering » 

 about 3J— 4J cm. broad. Scape aphyllose, erect, purpurascent, 

 glabrous, laxly with a few vagina? and with a few nodes ; the 

 upper internodes elongate and longer than the vaginae ; vaginae 

 purpurascent, long but the lower ones short, tapering. Flower 

 solitary, terminal, shortly pedicellate, obliquely erect then nutant, 

 about l^cm. long exclusive of the ovary, the alabastrus narrow; 

 pedicel curved, often longer than the ovary ; bract small, usually 

 a little longer than the pedicel, ovato-lanceolate, tapering pur- 

 purascent. Perianth connivent-erect-patent, purpurascent, but 

 purple-punctate internally, angustate, acuminate. Petals .slight- 

 ly shorter than the sepals. Labellum narrow, about as long 

 as the perianth, purpurascent below, trilobed ; lateral lobes very 

 small and obtuse, white ; midlobe elliptical, obtuse (slightly 

 emarginate ?), crispate, white, purple-punctate in the upper face. 

 Ovary obovoid-elliptical, dark-purple. 

 Nom. Jap. Mukago-saishin. 

 Hah. Japan. 

 Very rare. 



Tainia laxiflora (Ito) Makino, sp. nov. 



Oreorchis laxiflora Ito in Herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, 

 nomen. 



Calanthc laxiflora Makino in Herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. 

 Tokyo ; Matsum. Ind. PI. Jap. II. 1 (1905) p. 237, nomen. 



