135 
the leaves but often exceeding the leaves in flower. Spathe erect ; the 
tube convolute and cylindrical-tubular，about 5 cm. long, dark-purple, the 
mouth suddenly truncate with auriculately dilated and revolute margins ; 
the limb deltoid-ovate, or oblong-ovate, acute or more or less shortly acu- 
111 inate ， fornicato-deflected ， dark-purple, about 6-8 cm. long. Spadix uni- 
sexual, conico-cylindrical, subsessile,1era. long ， many-flowered; append¬ 
age shortly (about 8 mm. long) stipitate, exceeding the spathe-moutb, cylia- 
drical-suLclavate, thickish and abruptly truncate, at the base, 3^-4 cm. long 
exclusive of the stipe. Male flowers loosely disposed, shortly stipellate, 3-4- 
androus; anthers purple, with white pollen. Female flowers close-placed, 
obovato-globose ; with a subsessile stigma at the top; ovules 8-15, 013 conical, 
arranged in a circular manner. Fruit oblong-conical;berries numerous, 
obovato-globose, scarlet, 6-10 mm. across ; seed with a copious albumen and 
a straight and cylindrical embryo. 
Hab. Tosa : Sakawa, cult. (T. Makino ! 188 5)，Nanokawa (K. Wcvta- 
nabe ! May 6,1888), Mt. Yokogura ( I\ Mahino ! May 1892， Jane 1893 )， 
Hirose in Tosa-gori (S. Yano ! April 1891);Prov. Iyo : Mt. Sliirae-goe 
(K. Ohudaira ! May 2, 1897), Mt. Ishidzuchi (B. Ycdabe ! Herb. Sc. Coll. 
Imp. Univ. Tokyo. Aug. 9, 1888). 
This is found growing in forests in mountainous districts of south¬ 
western Japan. * 
Pmellia tripartita Schott var. atropurpurea Makino. 
The limb of the spathe dark-purple internally. 
Hab. Prov. Shimotsuke : Hachnshi in Nikko, cultivated. . 
Bare ; I have seen only one living specimen cited above. It is figured 
in Iwasuki’s Honzo-Dzufu, XX. fol. 25 verso-26 recto. 
# 
Finellia ternata (Tlmnb.) Breitenb. in Bot. Zeit. 1879, p. 687, figs. 1-4. 
Arum ternatum Thunb. Fi. Jap. p. 233 ; Willd. Sp. PI.IV. p. 481; 
Pers. Syn. PI. II. p. 574 ; Breitenb.1.c. ; Benth. FI. Hongk. p. 342， in nota. 
Ariscema ternatum Schott. 1832 ; Ejusd. Proclr. S} r st. Aroid. p. 60; 
Zoiling. Syst. Yerz. Inc!. Archip. I. 1854, p. 76. 
Atherurus ternatus Blume in Rumphia I. p.136 ; Knnth Enum. PI. 
III. p. 54. 
Finellia tuber if era Tenore, 1830 ; Schott Pi'oclr. Syst. Aroid. p. 20 ; 
Miq. Prol. FI. Jap. p. 133, et Cat. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat., FI. Jap. p. 95; 
Franch, et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. II. p. 3 ; Smith Conti，. Mater. Med. et 
Nat. Hist Chin. pp. 149， 172 ; Iianb. Sc. Pap. p. 262 ; Bret-schn. Bot. Sinic. 
