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New or Little Known Plants of Japan. 

site its segments, adherent to its tube at the base; filaments subulate; anthers erect, oblong, slightly api- 
culate, cordately bilobed at the base, dorsifixed near the base, orange-colored, about 1 line long. Ovary 
ovoid, 3-celled, green, about 1 line long, 3 line broad ; style short, 3-lobed, the lobes recurved and stig- 
matose on the upper side; ovules 6 in each cell, biseriate, each on a clavate pedicel projecting from the 
central angle of the cell, amphitropous.—F1. October. 
My specimens are from the Botanic Garden of the Imperial University. 
This plant belongs to Asparagopsis, Kunth (Enum. PIl., vol. v., p. 76.), the flowers being hermaphro- 
dite. I believe it is a native of Japan, although it is uncertain in what part of the country it is pune 
wild. It is figured in the 万 Zzz2 Zufu Gal eaves fol. 7 verso.) under the name of Zamabokti. The 
plant figured in the Somoku Zusetsu (vol. vii., fol. 6.) under the same ante is probably the same as the 
present plant. Franchet and Savatier in their Exumeratio Peantarum Faponicarum (vol. ii., p. 59.) refer 
Asparagus oligoclonos, Maxim. to the figure in the Honzo Zufu mentioned above, but it is a dioecious 
species allied to Asparagus officinalis, Linn. 
Plate IV. Fig. 1, flower; 2, vertical section of flower; 3, pistil; 4, transverse section of ovary; 5, De- 

