171 



Hab. Prov. Mitsasht : Tokyo, Bot. Gard. Koishikawa, cult. (Herb.! 

 So. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Oct. 1878, Sept. 30, 1879 ; T. Makino ! Sept, 

 1890, Oct. 3, 1893). 



This is only in cultivation. 



Cimicifuga japoniea (Thunb.) Spreng. Syst. Veg. II. p. 628 ; Miq. 

 Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 197 ; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 13 ; Huth 

 in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. XVI. p. 316, tab. IV. fig. 21, excl. syn. /? ; Id. 

 in Bull. Herb. Boiss. V. p. 1093, excl. var. obtusiloha ; Makino in Bot. 

 Mag., Tokyo, XI. 1897, p. 248, et in XIII. 1899. p. 198. 



Actcea japoniea Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 221 ; Willd. Sp. PI. II. p. 1140; 

 Pers. Syn. PI. II. p. 61; *Boir. Encycl. Suppl. I. p. 130; DC. Syst. I. p. 

 384, et Prodr. I. p. 65; Prantl in Engl, et Prantl Die Nat. Pflanzen- 

 fam. III. 2, p. 59. 



Thalictrodes joponicum O. Kunze. 



Pityrosperma acerinum Sieb. et Zucc. in Abhandl.- Akad. Munch. 

 III. p. 735, tab. 3, fig. 3, et in Ibid, IV. 2, p. 184; Walp. Eepert. 

 V. p. 7 ; Ann. d'hort. et de bot. I. p. 51, tab. 6. 



Actaia acerina Prantl. 



Cimicifuga japoniea var. a. acerina Huth in Engl. Jahrb. XVI. p. 

 316 ; Leveil. in Ball. Acad. Internat. Geogr. Bot. 1900, p. 217. 



Cimicifuga japoniea var. ternata Maxim, in litt. 



Cimicifuga japoniea var. obtusiloha Yatabe Iconogr. Fl. Jap. I. p. 67, 

 tab. 21, excl. syn. 



Oba-sJioma et Kiken-shoma Iinuma's Somoku-Dzusetsu X. fol. 15 

 verso -16 recto. 



Hab. Prov. Musashi : Chichibu (Herb. ! Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo) ; 

 Prov. Shimotsuke : Nikko (Z. Matsumura ! July 29, 1885 ; T. Makino ! 

 July 1900, Aug. 29, and Sept. 14, 1901) ; Prov. Hitachi : Mt. Tsukuba 

 (T. Makino ! May 1897); Prov. Nagato : Akasato-mura in Mine-gori 

 (D. Nikai ! herb. 1. c. Sept. 24, 1895) ; Prov. Iyo : Mt. Wariishi-toge 

 (Herb. ! 1. c. Aug. 11, 1888) ; Prov. Tosa : Xanokawa {T. Makino ! Xov. 

 1884) ; Mt. Tebako (S. Yano ! herb. 1. c. Aug. 10, 1890), Mt, Kurotaki 

 (T. Yoshinagal Aug. 1890). 



Leaves are constantly simply ternate ; leaflets are shining above, rarely 

 peltate at the bavSe. Flowers are like in next species. 



Cimicifuga biternata (Sieb. et Zucc.) Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 179 ; 



