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G. 0. Rosendahl. 



hairs and glandular-puberulent; raceme mostly secund, 10 — 27 flowered, 

 8—15 cm. long, becoming longer in age; bracts variously fringed or toothed; 

 pedicels 1—2 mm. long, glandular-puberulent, mostly with 2 minute brac- 

 teoles at the base; flowers purplish, 6—7 mm. broad in anthesis; axis at 

 first flattened but soon becoming turbinate ; sepals broadly triangular, about 

 1 ram long spreading or ascending but not reflexed at the tips; petals 

 pectinate-pinnatifid with 3—7 slender divisions, prominently glandular-dotted 

 on the outside, 2.5 — 3.5 mm. long; stamens 5, inserted at the base of the 

 petals, very short, anthers reniform; disk narrow, not prominently lobed; 

 ovary nearly inferior, styles very short, stigmas mostly 4-lobed; dehiscing 

 capsule turbinate,' cup-shaped; seeds numerous, dark-spotted. 



In moist woods, in the Islands of Kiusiu and Shikoku, Japan. 



The species is somewhat variable in the size of the petals and in 

 the number of their divisions. In the following variety much reduced 

 petals are found: 



Var. integripetala Makino, Bot. Mag. 19: 17. 1905. — ^Leaves 



oval-ovate, deeply cordate with a close sinus, acute or sub-acute, shal- 

 lowly lobate, with depressed -ovato- deltoid dentate lobes, very thinly 

 pilose or sub-glabrous, dark green along the nerves, petals simple, sub- 

 ulate, filiform, smooth, recurved, reflexed, reddish above, stigma semi-orbi- 

 cular, 2— i-lobulate, red.« 



Flowers in April, Prov. Musashi: Tokio Cult. (T. Making, May 9, 1904). 



We have not seen this variety and the description is borrowed from 

 Makino. 



12. Mitella acerina Makino, Bot. Mag. 16: 159. 1902. — Rhizome 



erect or oblique, rooting stoloniferous ; leaves tufted, long-petiolate, few- 

 several, round cordate, usually acuminate, with a deep sub-closed sinus at 

 the base, palmately 7-fid, lobes deltoid, or deltate-ovoid, membranaceous 

 when dried, purple green, thinly pilose above, glabrous beneath, 5 — 9 cm. 

 long, 0—8 cm. broad; petioles attaining 12 cm. in length; scapes few- 

 several, erect, exceeding the leaves in height; glabrous below, shortly and 

 sparsely glandular-hairy above, with several scaly bracts and sometimes 

 bearing a small leaf towards the base; racemes densely and secundly many- 

 flowered, glandular-hairy, attaining 10 cm. in length; pedicels equal to or 

 shorter than the llowers; glandular-puberulent, bearing minute bracteoles 

 at the base; brads membranaceous, deltoid; flowers 9—10 mm. broad in 

 anthesis; sepals deltoid, 1-nerved; petals 3.5 — 4 mm. long, 3-parted below 

 the middle into linear lobes, glandular-doited on the dorsal side, greenish 

 purple; stamens 5, inserted at the base of the petals, filaments short, an- 

 thers cordate, rotund; disk thickish, flat on the surface; styles short, erect, 

 stigmas thick, depressed oblong-semi-orbicular, very obscurely bi-lobed, 

 ovary 1 -celled, ovules numerous. (Description adapted from Making, Bot. 

 Mag. 1. c). 



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