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197, et Pro!, fl. Jap. p. 129 ; Franch. et Sav. Enum. pi. Jap. I. p. 415 ; 

 Matsmmira Catal. pi. Herb. Coll. Sc. Imp. Univ., Tokyo, 1886, p. 166; 

 Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. XXXI. p. 393 ; Sargent in Gard. and 

 Forest VI. p. 292, et Forest Fl. Jap. p. 5b, non Thunberg. 



Nom. Jap. Kanakugi-no-ki. 



Hah. Prov. Buzen in Kyushu : Mt. Iwaga-dake (R. Yatabe and Z. 

 MaUumura ! herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, July 17, 1882) ; Prov. 

 Musashi : Bot. Gard. Se. Coll. Imp. Univ, Tokyo, cult, (herb ! 1. c. April 

 29, 1881, fl., Sept. 27, 1883, fr.) ; Prov. Yamato : Mt. Kasuga-yama (Z. 

 Matmmura\ herb! I.e. July 15, 1883); Prov. Tosa in Shikoku : Mt. Tsu- 

 etate-toge (E. Yatabe ! herb. 1. c. July 26, 1888), Nanokawa (K. Watana- 

 be ! herb. 1. c. Sept. 15, 1S88, April 26, 1889), Mt, Honokawa-yama (T. 

 Makinol Aug. 3, 1889). 



This tree is found growing scattered on mountains in the southern 

 parts of Japan. While most of Japanese Lindera. bear black or yellow 

 berries this species scarlet ones, and they serve to distinguish the species con- 

 spicuously from all the others. Thunberg's Lindera umbellata in his Flora 

 Japonica, p. 145, tab. 21, is certainly not our species, though Siebold, Zuc- 

 carini, and many other authors refer the present species to it. Siebold et 

 Zuccarini's Benzoin Thunbergii in their Floras Japonicaa familke naturales, 

 II. p. 204, n. 707 should, exclusive of the synonyms, be referred to our 

 species, but the specific name " Thunbergii yy being incorrectly transferred 

 from Sassafras Thunbergii Sieb. in Siebold Synopsis plantarum Oeconomi- 

 carum universi regni Japonici, p. 23, n. 136, I have proposed the new 

 name above mentioned. 



. Lindera umbellaM Thunb. may be L. membranacea Maxim., which 

 is very doubtfully distinct from L. hypoglauca Maxim.; the leaves are 

 considerably variable in size, and the flowers are apparently .coetaneous 

 with the young expanded leaves or sometimes sub-precocious ; and it is 

 called " Kur(>mozi ; ' by the natives, and "its wood is used for making 

 toothpicks, the fragrance of the bark being much esteemed. The allied 

 species L. sericea Blume also bears the native name of " Kuromozi " (but 

 botanical!}- Ke-Kuromozi) ; it has likewise fragrant bark, and its wood is 

 employed for the same purpose. 



Gymodocea isoetifolia Aschers. Benin. Fi. Austral. VII. p. 178; 

 Hook, fib Fl. Brit. Incl. YI. p. 570. 



C[/modoeea aequorea Kunth Enum. plant. III. p. 118: Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Batav. III. p. 226, non Koenig., excl. syn. 



Norn. Jap. Shio-nira (T. Makino nom. nov.). 



Hob. Kyukyu [Loochoo] (E. Kuroiwa ! 1889). 



A naiadaceous halophyte new to the Flora of Japan. 



(To be continued.) 



