16 THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. nvoi. xxv. No. 2ss. 



Polygonum csespitosum y. laxiBorum Meisn. in Ann. Mus. 

 Bot. Lugd.-Bat. II. (1865-66), p. 57; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. 

 Jap. I. p. 395. 



Polygonum Posumhu Auct. Jap. 



Nom. Jap. Hana-tade. 



Hah. Japan. 



Skimmia rugosa (Yatabe) Makino, nom. nov. 

 Skimmia japonic a var. rugosa Yatabe in Bot. Mag., Tok^'o, 

 YI. (1892), p. 157. 



Nom. Jap. Uchidashi-miyamashikimi. 



Hah. Prov. Awa in Tokaido : Mt. Kiyosumi (T. Makino !). 



Amorphophallus Konjac (Sieb.) K. Koch in 'Berlin. 

 Allgem. Gartenz. (1858), pp. 166, 4^11.' 



var. kiusiana Makino. 



Amorphophallus kiusiana Makino in sched. herb. Sc. Coll. 

 Imp. Univ. Tokyo. 



Corm smaller, smoother, depressed-globose. Petiole and 



flowering stem (about 64?cm. long) erect, long, terete, smooth, 

 dark-green and irregularly blotched with pale spots. Leaves 

 trisected ; primarj^ segments spreading, dichotoniously divided ; 

 ultimate segments man3^, membranaceous, usually- narrower, 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, caudateh^ acuminate, attenuated 

 below, alately decurrent to the rachis, entire, dark green above, 

 paler beneath, shining on both surfaces, 3-20cm. long, 1 J-lr^cm. 

 wide. Spathe greenish, glabrous, 20cm. long; limb narrowly 

 deltoid, acumir.ate, membranaceous, rounded at the base, 

 15cm. long, 8cm. broad ; tube short and broad, 5cm. long, 

 22cm. across. Spadix erect; appendage conico-cylindrical, 



obtuse, about equal to the spathe in height, l|cm. across ; male 

 portion 3 Jem. long, contiguous, slightly exserted, cylindrical, 

 densely covered with anthers ; female portion included, shorter 

 than the male portion, shortly conico-cylindrical, densely clothed 

 with ovaries, 2|cm. long. Anthers sessile, 2-celled, mainh- 



vertically short-elongate, dehiscing with 2 pores. Ovary 



