4 THE JOURNAL OF JAPANESE BOTANY. [Voi.i. No.i- 
at tlie apex, entire and not ciliated oil margin, glabrous on both 
surfaces, green and slightly shining above, light green and diöpersedly 
minute-punctate under lens beneath, thickish and subcoriaceous, or 
somewhat flaccid, 2J-8J cm. long, 1|-4J cm. broad; midrib paler and 
prominent beneath; veins 5 to10 on each side, loose, erect-patent . ， 
delicate; veinlets inconspicuous; petiole thick, shallowly canaliculated 
in front, rounded dorsally, smooth, glabrous, 3-6 mm. long. Panicle 
(fructiferous) terminal, about 2J-10J cm. long, 3—10 cm. broad, py¬ 
ramidal, oppositely ramose; rachis and branches glabrous or slightly 
pubescent, umber; branches and branclilets divaricato-patulous or 
erect-patent. Fruit shortly pedicellate, accompanied by the persistent 
4-parted calyx at the base, ovoid-oval, rounded-obtuse at the top, 
6-8 mm. long, smooth, glabrous, black when mature but not glaucous. 
Nom. Jap. Oka-ibota (nov.). 
Hdb. Proy. SAG AMI : Akija (K. Hisauchi ! Nov. 21 ， 1915). 
This species is very closely allied to ljigustrum omlifolium Hassk. 
(=L. medium Franch. et Sav.), but it has the ovoid fruit, thinner 
and slightly shining leaves. Leaves are very variable in form and 
size. It is commonly growing* wild on sea-side hills in the prov. 
Sagami and the southern part of the prov. Musashi. I have named 
this species in honour of Mr. Kiyotaka Hisauchi, who was kind enough 
to give me the specimen collected by himself. 
var. pubescens Marino. 
Leaves pubescent along the midrib beneath. 
Nom. Jap. Yabu-ibota (nov.). 
Hob. Prov. MUSASHI : Yokohama (K. Hisauchi 1 Dec. 5, 1915). 
Golocasia antiquorum Schott, Meletem. I. p.18. 
var. multifolia Marino. 
Golocasia multifolia Hort. Jap. % 
Colocasia antiquorum var. confluens Makino in Iinuma, Sömoku- 
Dzusetsu, ed. 3, IV.19 (1912), p. 6. 
Corm subterranean, widely turbinate, snbtruncate and with many 
buds at the top, attaining about 14 cm. long, rooting below; brancli- 
corms few to several, depressed-turbinate, snbtruncate and with 
many l)nds at the top, sub confluent to the main central corm in the 
inferior ones but greatly confluent in the upper ones, and entirely 
confluent in the uppermost ones; whole corm attaining about 17 cm. 
in diameter. Leaves smaller, green; petioles numerous, csespitose, 
purpurascent. 
Nom. Jap. Yatsugashira-im q. 
110 b' JAPAN, cultivated. 
(To be continued.) 
