﻿j u i y ,5,iS2i.] r. MAKINO—CONTEJB^ TO FLORA OF JAPAN. ±g 



Elatostemma nipponica Makino, nov. sp. 



Matostemma sessile var. cuspidatum Makino in Iindma, Somoliu- 

 Dzusetsu, ed. 3， IV. (1912) 20, p. 14, tab. 13， non Wedd. 



Descriptions will appear in the next number of this Journal. 



Nom. Jap. Tokihokori. 



Hab. JAPAN, plain (T. Makino ！). 



Yallisneria denseserrulata Makino, nov. comb. 

 Vallisneria spiralis var. deiiseserrulata Marino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, 

 XXVIII. (1914), p. 27. 

 Nom. Jap. Äogai-mo. 

 Hab. JAPAN, lakes (T. Makino ！). 



Lychnis gracillima (Eoheb.) Makino, nov. comb. 



Silene gracillima Eohkb. in Linnsea, XXXVI. (1870), p. 679 ； 

 Fkanch. et Sa.v. Enum. PI. Jap. II. p. 293. 



Lichnis stellarioides IMaxim. in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 31 ； Fkanch. et 

 Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. II. p. 294. 



Silene ivßata Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 10 ； Franch. et Sav. 1. c. I p, 46. 



Nom. Jap. Senju-gampi, 



Hab. JAPAN, mountains. 



Duchesnea major Makino, nov. comb. 



Duchesnea indica var. major Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XXVIII. 

 (1914), p. 184. 一 



Fragaria indica ß, Wallichii Feanch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. 

 p. 129, excl. syn. 



Fruiting receptacle bright scarlet. Achene smooth. 



Ncm. Jap. Yabu-hebuchigo. 



Hab. JAPAN, not uncommon. 



This differs from D, indica Focke, which has the smaller pale- 

 rose receptacle and smaller tuberculato-muricate achenes. 



Acanthopanax nipponicum Makino, nov. sp. 



Dioecious shrub, attaining about 3 m. in height ； branches slender 

 terete, glabrous, iarely scabro-hispidulous, cinerous or brownisn- 

 cinerecus, dispersed with rounded and slightly elevated lenticels 

 (those of the young branch oval to oblong), often flexuous ； pith white 

 and large ； spines patent or more or less reflexed, gilvous or 

 brownish-gilvous, purplish when young, narrowly conical, mere or 

 less depressed laterally, hardly curved backwards, sharp, smooth, 

 about 5-8 mm. long, the base much incrassate with an obovate 

 boundary. Leaves deciduous, alternate, but 2 - 5 - fasciculate on an 

 obscure or short short-shoot in the old leaf-axil of the old branches, 

 long-petiolate, £ -digitate, orbiculate in outline, about 4-8 cm. in each 

 way, membranaceous or thicKish-membranaceous, deep-green, but 



