oct.im.-] T. MAKINO.— OBSERVATIONS ON THE FLORA OF JAPAN. 295 



vShrub or small tree!, ^empervirent. Flower 3-3^ cm. 

 long-, 3-4- cm. across. Corolla broadly infundibnliform and 

 sub-bilabiate, purplish-rosy, deep-purple-maculatc on the face; 

 lo])cs rounded at the apex, but retuse in the posterior one, the 

 upper 3 oval-ellipcical, the lower (anterior) 2 broadly obUmg-. 

 Ovary densely tomentoso-setose with adpressed plvo-scriccous 

 hairs. Flowers in April. 



Nom. Jap. Sakura-tsutsuji. 



Hab. Prov. OSUMI: Lsl. Yalcu-shima, mountain (T. Making! 

 Sept. 1909); Prov. SATSUMA: Mt. Noma (Zentaro Tashiro! 

 April 26, 1913). 



New to Kiusiu. 



Malus spontanea Making, nom. nov. 



Pyrus spontanea Making in Sched. Herb. 



Malus Eoribunda var. spontanea Making in Bot. Mag., 

 Tokyo, XXIV. (1910), p. 67 (Miscel.). 



A small deciduous tree, densely branched; branchlets divari- 

 cate. Leaves alternate or fasciculate, usually long petiolate, 

 obovato-elliptical or elliptical, acute at the apex, cuneato-acute 

 towards the base, incumbent-serrulate, coriaceous, impressed- 



Lded above, conspicuously - 



dant, about 2-5-umbellate, pedicellate, 21-31 em. across, white 

 and more or less shaded with rose, rose-purple in bud ; pedicels 

 gracile, about 2 cm. long. Calyx-segments 5, deltoid-ovate, 

 depressed-white-tomentose within, glabrous externally; tube 

 infundibuliform, smooth. Petals 5, patent, oval-orbiculate, 

 elliptical, or ovato-elHptical. Stam.ens 20, exserted. Styles 

 5, exceeding the filaments. Pome small, pyriformly sphrerical, 

 smooth, glabrous, 8-9 mm. across. Flowers in May. 

 Nom. Jap. No kaido (T. Maklsg). 



Hah. Prov. HYH^A in Kiusiu: Mt. Kirishima (V. Xakano!; 

 B. Fukasawa ! ; T. Making ! ; Z. Tasiiiro!). 



A very rare wild species ; probably this is the botanical 

 origin of Ma/«s y?on6un(ia SiKB. , . , , 



{To he continued.) 



