Arrii.1914.] T. MAKIN0.-0BSERVATI0N8 ON TEE FLORA OF JAPAN. 117 



scarious and rosy towards the apex, viridescent below, 2-3 mm. 

 long. Flower small, lax, pedicellate, about 3 mm. across, 

 2|-3 mm. long, rosy. Calyx 5-parted, eglandular ; segments 

 oval or oval-elliptical, rounded at the apex, eoncave. Glands 

 very minute, deltoid or ovato-deltoid, obtuse, yellowish. Sta- 

 mens 7, included ; filament subulate ; anther minute, rounded. 

 Pistil nearly as long as the calyx ; ovary oval-elliptical, 3-go- 

 nous ; style 3-parted ; connate portion short ; arms erect-patent, 

 often curved ; stigma capitate. Achene equalling or scarcely 

 exceeding the persistent calyx, oval-ovate, rounded at the base, 

 acute and with the marcescent style at the apex, trigonous, 

 smooth, shining, castaneous, about 2| mm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Hana-tade (after Yokusai Iinuma). 



Hab. JAPAN. 



The figure and brief description of this plant appear in 

 Yokusai Iinuma's Somoku-Dzusetsu, VII. fol. 64 verso and 

 fol. 65 recto ; hence in memory I have named it after the 

 anther's name as the specific name for this plant. 



var. stenophyllum Making, var. nov. 



Stem erect, divaricately ramose from the base ; branches 

 slender. Leaves lanceolate, but linear-lanceolate in the su- 

 perior ones, often ovato-elliptical in the basal ones, acuminate, 

 flaccid. Raceme spike-like, very much angustate ; rachis fili- 

 form. Flowers-clusters very laxly disposed, the lower ones 

 interrupted. Flower small, rosy. 



Nom. Jap. Hosoha-hanatade (nov.). 



Hah. Prov. TOSA : Mt. Yokogura (T. Making ! Sept. 1, 

 1913). 



This variety differs from the type by having the narrow 



Polygonum Blumei Meisn. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.- 

 Batav. II. (1865-66), p. 57. 

 var. contractum Making. 



Polygonum Blumei forma contractum Making in Sched. 

 Herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, et in Iinuma, Somoku- 

 Dzusetsu, ed. 3, II. (1910), 7, p. 80, tab. 63. 



