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THE JOURNAL OF JAPANESE BOTANY. 



[Vol. II. No. 



Nom. Jap. Ya-ddke. 



Hab. JAPAN, wild and cultivated. 



Pseudosasa spiculosa (Fr. Schm.) Makino, nov. comb. 



Arundinaria kurilmsis ß. spiculosa Fr. Schm. Reis, im Amurl. u 

 - Ins. Sachal. p. 198. 



Sasa spiculosa Makino in Bot. Mag., Tolcjo, XXVI. p. 12. 



Bambus a borealis Hack, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. VII. p. 720. 



Arunamaria lorealis Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XIV. p. 20. 



Sosa borealis Makino et Shibat.\ in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XV. p. 24, 

 tab. 1， fig. 7-16. , ― 



Arundinaria purpuraicens Hack, in Bull. Herb. Bwss. VII. p. 716. 



Bambusa purpurascens Makino in Descr. Prod, forest. Exp. Univ. 

 1900 Paris Minist. Agr. et Comm., et in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XIV. p. 62. 



Nom. Jap. Suzll, Suzu-daJce. 



Bab. JAPAN, wild. 



Pseudosasa Owataii Makino, nov. comb. 



Arundinaria Owatarii Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XXI. p. 16. 



Sasa Owatarii Makino, 1. c. XXVI. p. 14. 



Nom. Jap. Yak u shima-dake . 



Hob. JAPAN : Yakushima, mountain. 



Arundinaria Yariegata (Siebjld) Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, 

 XXVI. (1912), p. 15. . 

 yar. Tsumorii Makino, nov. 冒. 



A small rather tufted bamboo, about 4 decim. nigh. Ehizome 

 repent, ramose. Culms erect, slender, terete, smooth, green, fistulöse, 

 often subflexuous, about mm. across, with a ring of the white 



waxy bloom under the node ； nodes apart, slightly prominent, pu- 

 berulent mixed with lax pubescent hairs. Leaves distichous, palmate- 

 ly arranged towards the top of the culm in the upper ones, nar- 

 rowly lanceolate or lanceolate, acuminate with a very sharp point at 

 the apex, rounded or obtuse at the base but acutish in the few 

 superior ones, spinuloso-ciliated on margin but merely ciliated with 

 rather long hairs towards the base, glabrous above, glabrous or 

 slightly puberulent beneath, thinly chartaceous, richly white- variegat- 

 ed, 4-11 cm. long, 7-19 mm, wide ； midrib very slender, prominent 

 "beneath ； veins about 5 on each, side ； petiole very short, 1J-2 mm. 

 long, puberulent in front ； ligule very short, truncate, puberulent 

 dorsally, ciliated ； sheath closely encircled, striated, glabrous, green, 

 ciliated on margin, fimbriatsd with long white beards at the shoulders. 



Nom. Jap. Toyora-zisa (nov. nom.). 



Hab. Prov. NAGATO ： Kantama-mura in Toyora-göri, cultivated 

 (Shigeyo Tsumori ！ 1918). 



A charming bamboo of gardens, with, the white variegated leaves. 

 It is allied to the type of A. varisgata Makino, but the latter differs 

 from the former by having the narrower, firmer and constantly 

 pubescent (on the under side) leaves. 



(To bs continued.) 



