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Berry shortly pedicellate, globose, truncate and surrounded with a circular 

 calyx-limb at the top, glabrous, scarlet, about 7 mm. across. Seeds small, 

 many, obovate, trigonous, about 1| mm. long, very minutely and finely 

 striate longitudinally, orange-coloured. 



Hah. Prov. Shimotsuke : Nikko (R. Yatabe ! July 1877). 



Phytolacca (Euphytolacca) japonica Makino Notes on Jap. PI. XV. 

 in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, VI. 1892, p. 49. 



Habit of P. acinosa Pioxb. var. Kcempferi (A. Gray) Makino, but 

 berries depressed- globose, composed of entirely confluent 7-10 carpels, about 

 8 mm. across, shining, with persistent styles at the top and deeply concave 

 in centre, black and filled with purple juice when matured. 



Hab. Prov. Tosa : Nanokawa (K. Watanabel May 30, 1886); Mt. 

 Imano (T. Makino ! Aug. 7, 1889), Kusugami {T. Makino ! June 1893); 

 Prov. Musashi : Chichibu [T. Makino ! July 18, 1888); Prov. Shimotsuke: 

 Nikko, cult, (T. Makino ! Sept. 1901), Mikouchi near Ashio, cult. (T. 

 Makino ! Sept. 1901). 



An allied species of Phytolacca, acinosa Koxb. var. Kamipferi (A. Gray) 

 Makino, which is common in Japan, but the berries are very different, and 

 its rachis of raceme is often purple in fruit. It is often cultivated, and 

 the leaves are used as a vegetable, as also 



Phytolacca acinosa Roxb. p. Ksempferi (A. Gray) Makino, nom. 

 now = Phytolacca Ktcmpfcri A. Gray Bot. Jap. 1859, p. 404; Miq. Prol. 

 FL Jap. pp. 125, 301. = P. acinosa /?. esculenta Maxim, in Ind. Sem, 

 Hort. Petrop. 1869, SuppL, p. 23; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 

 385. = P. octandra Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 189; Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. Fam. 

 Nat, in Abhandl. Akad. Muench. IV. 2, p. 166 ; Hoffm. et Schult. Noms 

 indig. PI. Jap. 1853, Paris, p. 60, non Linn. =Sjooriku f vulgo Jamma 

 Gobo K»mp£ Amoen. Exot. 1712, p. 828, cum icone. 



Cotyledon (Umbilicus, Orostachys) Iwarenge Makino sp. nov. 



Stem short, erect, or ascending, leafy, without stolon, 15-28 cm. in height 

 including the raceme, usually ramose above, but rarely simple and one- 

 racemiferous ; branches one to several, axillary, ascending and racemiferous. 

 Leaves succulent, oblong-spathulate, or lanceolate-spathulate, plane, manifestly 

 obtuse at the apex, quite ca3sious-glaucous ; cauline ones sparse, approximate 

 patent or reflexed ; radical ones imbricately rosulate before anthesis, mostly 

 ever-green throughout the winter. Rosettes 5-10 cm. across. Baceme erect, 



