;».. fef4E BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. 



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^tVol. V,.t;^^_ J Jan. lo, 1891. IVo. 47.] 



A New Japanese Goodyera. 



Ryokichi Yatabe^ Sc. D. 



Goodyera hachijoensis, sp. nov. 

 No7n. jap. Hachijb-shusurait^ >^ 'f '^ \ "0 V ^ :^^ y V 

 (Plate XIX.) 

 Stems ascending from a creeping rhizome, pubescent on the upper part, 

 purplish, about 5 inches high including the spike. Leaves ovate, acute, green, 

 wavy at the margins, with more or less silvery longitudinal area on the upper 

 surface, the middle and largest leaves ij inches long, i inch broad; petioles 

 sheathing at the base, the largest about -J inch long including the sheath; upper 

 leaves, smaller, passing into linear-lanceolate empty bracts. Flowers small, crowded 

 on a rather one-sided spike of about 2 inches; bracts leafy, linear-lanceolate, ciliate 

 at the margins, longer than the ovary and partly enclosing it at the base, 2-4 lines 

 long. Perianth smooth, about i J lines long; dorsal sepal and petals connivent, the 

 sepal ovate, greenish on the back, brownish tinged at the apex, inflexed at the basal 

 margins, the petals oblanceolate, nearly white; lateral sepals oblong-ovate, slightly 

 greenish; labellum saccate, the sac pale-yellow, hairy inside, the limb white, 

 spreading, incurved at the margins. Column short; stigma concave; rostellum 

 short, bifid; anthers about as long as the rostellum; poUinia 2, each bipartite. 

 Ovary fusiform, about 2 lines long. — Fl. September-October. 



Living specimens of this new Goodyera were collected by lAx. Samuro Okubo 



