Plantse Japonenses novae vel minus cognitse. 



{Continued from Vol. XIII p. 140.) 

 By 



T. Makino. 



Assistant of Bota.nj in the Scieun CoHey; fo.pt, in! f« i IKl ^t : i Tokyo. 



Arundinaria quadrangularis (Fenzi) Makino in But. Mag., Tokv<». 

 IX. p. 71. 



Rhizome widely creeping, slender, with .short and terete internodes. 

 Culm erect, attaining about 6 m. in height and about 4 cm. in diameter, 

 quare with obtuse angles, tistulose, aspi-roiis with sparse minute tubercles 

 which aretbe bases of deciduous short hairs, branched above ; nodes bi-annular, 

 more or less raised, pubescent at she inferior ring when voting, vertieillated 

 with very short spinitbrni detlexed aerial roots: the intertiode about 8-22 cm. 

 long; branches, at first 3 to a culm-node and afterwards become fasciculate, 

 terete or subsemi terete, with a small hollow, smooth, with much prominent 

 nodes, branchlets dense, 1-2 or fasciculate at nodes, sub-solid, often geniculate, 

 very prominent at nodes. Culm-sheath eliartaceo-c« >riaee< »us, glabrou- bin 

 ciliate on the margin, striate, punctate with nnnvr u- minute purple sp-K 



the rudimentary leaves minute or obsolete. Leaves about 2 to 5 to a 

 branchlet, approximate, angustato-lanceolate, •_randuallv accuminate, shortly 

 attenuated at the base and deeurrent t . the short petiole which is 1-8 mill, 

 in length, 8-29 cm. long, 10-27 mm. broad, glabrous except the scabrous 



b n *ith ; veins 4-7* on each side: verlieal venules ;» -7 between' the veins 

 with delicate transverse venules which form numerous minute rectangular 

 areoke : ligule short, truncate, minutelv ciliated on the mardn. pubescent on 

 the back; sheath narrowly terete, sub'-carinate on the back above, coriaceous, 

 glabrous, finely striate, ciliato-margined, the mouth with erect timhriato-ciiia. 

 Flower unknown. 



Bambnsa ynadrawjulnris fenzi in Bull. Soc. Tosc. Ort. V. 1880, p. 

 401 ; Bean in (iaid. Chron. 3rd. Ser. XV. p. 368 ; Mitf. Bamb. (lard. p. 89. 



Noin. Jap. ^XkikakuM^^ ' <M> ' ' P ' 



Hah. Prov. Tusa: ?>akawa (T. Makino ! Nov. 1»<)2) : 1W. Musashi : 

 Nippori near Tokyo (T. ^ : Aug. 17. Is93. .Ian. P.). 11)00). 



dinaria ^Tri ^Mi,pVM\kin!!(^/;.,j,!!'o Ivl'o"'!,' Mhf b! nil .fil/ml. 

 1896, p. 93 cum tab. = /;</,„/.„* bints!!,- Sieh. Svn. pi. ..eeonom. univ. regni 

 Jap. p. 5. = B«»tb f ^<i K<n,-vl<!kH il<>rt. = Am ud 'um r'm , <<„,, A[ a kino in Bot. 

 Mag., Tokyo, XI. 1897, p. 160, excl. syn.), although it appears greatly dif- 

 ferent at first sight. 



Arundinaria marmorm (Mitf.; Makino is Arundinaria Malsn^ura: 

 Hack, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. VII. 1899, p. 716. (To be continued.) 



