Observations on the Flora of Japan. 



{Continued from p. 36.) 

 By 



T. Makino. 



J.edunr of Botany in the Science College, 

 Imperial Universiiy, Tokyo, 



Forsythia japonica Making, sp. nov. (Fig. lY.) 



Forsythia suspensa var. japonica Making, MS. 



Forsythia viridissima 

 Nakai in Bot. Mag., 

 Tokyo, XXIIL (1909), 

 p. 192, in nota ; Yoshino, 

 ibid. XXVII. (1913), p. 

 428 (Misc.), non Lindl. 



A deciduous shrub ; 

 branches often pendu- 

 lous, terete, erectpatently 

 ramose, gilvous or gilvo- 

 umber, dispersed with 

 slightly prominent minute 

 lenticels ; branchlets slen- 

 der, obscurely tetragonous 

 with hardly edged lines, 

 glabrous, provided with 

 imbricated deltoid perulae 

 at the base. Leaves op- 

 posite, petiolate, simple, 

 broadly ovate, acuminate 

 with an acute or obtuse 



tip at apex, obtuse round- Fig. IV. For.njthia Japonica Making, reduced. 

 ed or subcordato-rounded 



at base, repand-dentate or serrato-dentate with depressed-deltoid 

 or sometimes deltoid sharp-tipped teeth, but entire on the 



