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Aug.' 6, 1881); Prov; Shistano : Mt. Togakushi (R. Yatabe and Z. Matsu- 

 mtcral Herb. I. c. July 10, 1884) ; Prov. Shimotsuke: Nikko (Herb.! L c. ; 

 T. Makino ! June 30, 1900) ; Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, Bot. Gard. Koishikawa, 

 eult. (Herb.! I.e. May 30, 1879, May 29, 1880; T. MaMnol); Hokkaido 

 (L. Boehmerl Herb. 1. c.) ; Prov. Ishikari : Sapporo (#. Yalabel Herb. 1. c. 

 July 30, 1878, Aug. .878; Y. Tohcbuchil Herb. I.e. Sept. 8, 1892). 



A large and tall climber, the main stem attaining 20 cm. or more in 

 diameter with age. 



Shortia rotundifolia (Maxim.) Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, IX. p. 

 327, X. p. 221, et XII. p. 230. 



Khizome elongate, erect or ascending, about 4-10 cm. long, woody, 

 rooting below. Leaves tufted, on the summit of the rhizome, long petioled, 

 orbicular or ovato-orbicular, truncato-retuse at the apex with a slight-depres- 

 sion in centre, rounded and shortly decurrent to the petiole at the base, 

 apiculately sinuato-dentate, chartaceo-membranaceous, glabrous.; midrib and 

 veins slender, elevated above, the veins 3-5 on each side*; petiole slender, 

 longer than the blade, attaining about 8 cm. in length. Scape erect, 

 slender, uniflorous, attaining about 12| cm. in height, glabrous, remotely 

 about 4-5-bracteate, furnished with a few membranaceous subulate acumi- 

 nate scales at the base ; bract erect, subulate-lanceolate, tapering above* 

 entire, membranaceous, 6-6} long, the uppermost one approximate to the 

 calyx. Sepals 5, slightly unequal in length and width, imbricated, erect- 

 patent, deltoid-ovate and acutish or obtuse in the outer one, but oblong 

 and emarginate in the inner ones, entire, but minutely suberose at apex in 

 the inner ones, membranaceous, glabrous, 7-8 mm. long in fruit, longitudi- 

 nally 9-10-nerved, the midrib slightly prominent externally. Corolla 



Stamen Capsule globose, with a persistent style, glabrous, 4} mm. 



long, dehiscing into 3 thinly coriaceous carpels ; placentas thick, central. 

 Seeds minute, numerous, ferruginous, obovato-cylindrical, lesser than 1mm. 

 in length ; testa very minutely reticulated. 



r Schizocodon rotundifolius Maxim, in Mel. Biol. XII. p. 743 ; Forbes 

 et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXVI. p. 34. 



Hob. Yaeyama Arc hip. (S. Tashirol Herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, 

 Aug. 1887). 



Schizocodon soldanelloides Sieb. et Zucc. 



a. genuinus Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XII. 1898, p. 229, 



