Observations on the Flora of Japan. 



[Continued from p. 174.) 



By 



T. Hnkino. 



fniprrial I 'nlnrsUy, Tokyo. 



Euphorbia sendaica Makino in Iinuma, Somoku-Dzuse- 

 tsii, ed. 3, II. (1910), 9, p. 24, tab. 19, et in Rot. Mag., Tokyo, 

 XXIY. (1910), p. 146. 



Euphorbia Jolkini Savatier in Iinuma, vSomoku-Dznsetsii, cd. 

 2, IX-. (1874), fol. 21 recto, no. 19, non Boiss. 



Perennial, glabrous, attaining about 3-4 decim. high in flow- 

 er ; rhizome elongate, vslender, horizontally long-creeping, terete, 

 rooting throughout, laxly dispersed with deltoid dark-brown ad- 

 pressed scales throughout, 3—6 mm. across; roots short, fibrous, 

 patent. Stem terminating the rhizome, erect, terete, thick and 

 stout, about 6— 7mm, across, smooth, purpurascent, scaly at the 

 base, simple but more or less approximately ramose towards the 

 top, the superior portion above the branches often provided with 

 a few leaves and a few axillary peduncles ; branches sterile, erect- 

 patent, axillary, foliiferous towards the top, slender, smooth, 

 purpurascent. Leaves sparse, spreading, exstipulate, lanceolate 

 or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse at the apex, obtuse at the base but 

 very shortly attenuated at the very base, very shortly petiolate, 

 quite entire, flaccid, thickish-membranaccous, 7 cm. or less long. 

 2 cm. or less broad, green and often shaded with i)ur|)le above, 

 paler beneath, very angustately siibpellucid and often purpuras- 



what impressed above when fresh ; veins many, inc(>nsi)icuous, 

 delicate, erect-patent; petiole pale, or pale-greenish, ]>road, 

 broadly subcanaliculate In front, lunate in transverse secti.Mi, 



