April, vM.l T. MAKINO.-OBSERVATIONS ON THE FLORA OF JAPAN. HQ 



KoiDZ. PI. Sachal. Nakah. (1910). p. 112; Schneid. 111. Handb. 

 Laubholzk. II. (1912), p. 713, fig. 452, c-e. 



Capri folium Chamissoi Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. I. (1891 ), p. 274. 



Lonicera nigra Cham, et Schlecht. in Linnaea, III. (1828), 

 p. 137; Hook, et ARN.Bot. Beech. Yov. (1838), p. 115, nnn Linn. 



Lonicera nigra Ledeb. ¥\. Ross. II. (181-4), p. 389, pro 

 parte, fide Maximowicz. 



Lonicera Xylosteum var. baccis nign's Pall. F1. Ross. I. 

 (1784), p. 56. ^ 



Lonicera Riederiana Fisch. in herb, ex Herder. 



Norn. Jap. Chishima-bybtamboku (K. Miyabe), Karobana- 

 bybtamboku (T. Making). 



Hab. Prov. CHISHIMA (Kurile) : Shibetoro in Etorof (K. 

 Miyabe ! Herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, July 30, 1884) ; 

 Prov. KITAMI : Mt. Riishirl in Isl. Riishiri (T. Making ! Aug. 

 1903) ; KARAFUTO (Sachalin) : Mituriyofuca (G. Nakahara ! 

 Herb. ib-d. June 24, 1906) ; Prov. SHINANO : xMt. Yatsuga- 

 take (T. Making! Aug. 1903). 



New to the Honsiu (Hondo). Flower is atropurpureous. 



Lonicera Mochidzukiana Making, sp. nov. (Sect. Isika.) 



A deciduous erect shrub, attaining about 2 m. in height ; 

 branches terete, glabrous, avellaneous, outer bark thin and easily 

 peeling off ; branchlets erect-patent, tctragonous and very 

 angustately bordered in angles, glabrous, gilvous, with ad- 

 pressed perulas at base ; perulas opposite, imbricated, marcescent, 

 thin, smooth, glabrous, gilvous, carinate dorsally, the basal 

 ones acute-deltoid or subulato-deltoid, the upper ones gradually 

 larger in size, the uppermost ones linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 attaining about l^cm. long; bud tetragono-subulate with im- 

 bricated carinate perulas, tapering above, glabrous, the lateral 

 ones erect-patent, but the terminal one erect. Leaves oppo- 

 site, usually distichously arranged, shortly petiolate, ovate, 

 broadly ovate, ova to-elliptical, ovato-oblong, or ova to-lanceolate, 

 acuminate at the apex, rounded or subcordato-rouuded at the 

 base, entire, more or less crispate on margin, firmely membrana- 



