Plantse Japonenses novae vel minus cognitse. 



{Continued from p. 34.) 



T. Makino, 



Assistant of Ihtaiv, in the Si-len-e Olege, 

 Imperial University, Tokyo. 



Sophora (Platyosprion) shikokiana Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, VI. 

 1892, p. 53, et XIV. p. 34. 



A deciduous tree. Branchlet terete, tlexuous, glabrous, brownish or 

 more or less eastaneous-brown. dispersed with verv minute indistinct lenti- 

 cels. _ Leaves impari-pinnate with 10-13-leaflots,' petiolate, -20-32 cm. long, 

 10- 1 < em. broad : racliis slender, terete, glabrous or somewhat puberuleiit 

 <»n both lateral sides; leaflets alternate, erect-patent or spreading, approximate, 

 oblong, but smaller and ovate in the lower ones, obovato-oblong in the 

 odd one, entire, acuminate with an obtuse tip, a little obliquely obtuse or 

 rounded-obtuse at the base but often truueato-rounded in the lower ones, 

 obtose-cuneate or cuneate at the base in the odd one, 3-11 a em. long, 

 2-5 cm. wide, sub lmrta; eo-membranaceous, but thinly membranceous in those 

 of shoots, green and glabrous above, glaucous and pubescent or tomentose- 

 pubt scent along the midrib beneath ; midrib slender, prominent beneath ; 

 veins about 10-15 on each side, more or less regularly and closely arranged, 

 patulous, annate upwanls prominent beneath; veinlets very finely reticu- 



t'rete. subghbrous. swollen the b r e entirelv enclosing the white- 

 tomentose b,d within ; stipule, and stipels eaducous. "inflorescence terminal, 

 panieled, with loose and spreading .second raehises, which are longest in 

 the lowest nur: main rachis slender, somewhat p,uWe.,t ils in the second 



with an old style c't the apex, obtme or ponded' ol'.ut-" and" stip ellate at 

 the_base. narrowly canaliculate on the lower margin, thinly puberulent, 



Hub. Prov. Kivnr ; Foot of Mt. Tate-vama (If. Ytdabc and Z. Matsu- 

 vtnm\ herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokvo, Julv 23, 1884); Prov. ToSA : 

 N"'iekawa ( '/'. M„kh,o ! Nov. 1SS4). Mt. Tehako-vama (R. Yutnhe ! herb. 

 Sc. Coll. Tmp. Univ. Tokyo. Aug. s, ISSS). b.eppu'-mura ( T. Makinnl Nov. 



