laos.] 



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end, usually scarcely curved. A other erect, closely placed, purpurascent. 

 Ovary pedicellate, cylindrical, curved in the apical portion, glabrous, green, 

 8-13 mm. long inchiding the pedicel. Bulbiterous at the top of the raceme 

 in autumn after anthesis. 



Nom. Jap. Koani-chidori (T. Kinoshita). 



Hah. Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, cult, from Koani Village in the prov. Ugo 

 {T. Maldno ! June 3, 1903). 



This differs from the type, by the form of tfie labellum, narrower 

 leaves, colour of the flower, and the bulbiferous habit. It was first found 

 and collected in the sphagnous place on the foot of some mountain in 

 Missato in Koani Village, Kita-akita-gori, prov. Ugo, June 28, 1902, by Dr. 

 Tomosabnro Kinoshita, and my specimens are due to the kindness of the 

 collector. 



Ampeiopsis japonica (Thunb.) Makino, nom. nov. 



Paulinia japonica Thunb. Fl. Jap. (1784) p. 170 ; VVilld. Sp. PK II. 

 p. 463; Pers. ISyn. PL I. p. 443; Spreng. Syst. Veg. 11. p. 250; DC. 

 Prodr. I. p. 606. 



Ampeiopsis serjanafolia Bimge Enum. PI. Chin. Ror. (1832) p. 12; 

 Eegel in Gartenfl. (1867) p. 3, tab. 531 ; Planch, in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. 

 V. p. 459 ; Diets in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. p. 466 ; Pretschn. Hist. 

 Eur. Bot. Disc. China, p. 330. 



Cissus serjanicefolia Walp. Rep. Bot. Syst. I. p. 441, 



Vitis seriance/oUa Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 149 ; Franch. et Sav. 

 II. p. 316 ; Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXIII. p. 136. 



Vitis pentapJtylla Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 90 ; Baker et 8. Moore in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. XVII. p. 381, non Thunb. 



Vitis pentapliylla var. /9. plnnatifida Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. 

 I. p. 85. 



Cissus viticifolia Sieb. et Zucc. a. et /9. in Abhandl. Akad. Miinch. 

 IV. 2, p. 196. 



Nom. Jap. Kagami-gusa (old name), Bgakuren. 



Hah. Japan, occasionally cultivated. 



Formerlv introduced from China. 



PodocarpUS Nagi (Thunb.) Zoll. et Moritzi. 

 Myrica Nagi Thunb. Fl. Jap. (1784) p. 76. 



