Tas. 8166. 
SHORTIA vwnIFtora. 
_ Japan. 
DIAPENSIACEAE. Tribe GALACINEAE. 
Suortia, Torr, et A. Gr.; Benth, et Hovk. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 620. 
Shortia uniflora, Maxim. in Bull. Acad, Petersb. vol, xvi. (1871), p. 225; 
Mel. Biol. vol. viii. p. 20, in nota; Hindmarsh in Gard. Chron. 1902, 
vol. xxxi. p. 837, f. iis: Flora & Sylva, 1905, vol. iii. p. 246, cum figura 
nigra; a SS. galacifolia, Torr. et A. Gr., habitu prostrata, pedunculis 
brevioribus a basi arcuatis et floribus majoribus roseis recedit. 
Fruticulus sempervirens, repens, omnino glaber, 8-15 cm. altus. Folia conferta, 
longe petiolata, rigida, cordato-orbicularia, saepius latiora quam longa, 
2-3 cm. lata vel interdum in exemplaribus silvestribus usque ad 8 cm. 
lata, crenato-dentata, crenis apiculatis, lucida, intra marginem zona rubra 
ornata; petioli graciles, 2°5 interdum ad 10 cm. longi. Scapi numerosi, 
semper uniflori, in exemp!aribus cultis folia superantes, in exemplaribus 
silyestribus saepius quam folia breviores, basi incrassati, foliis paucis 
spathulatis 1-2 em. longis et prophyllis 3 crassis lanceolatis acuminatissimis 
circiter 1 cm longis suffulti, superne prope calycem bracteolis 3 e basi 
lata cordata ovato-lanceolatis acutis 6-8 mm. longis instructi, saepius 
singula paulloinferiore addita. Flores rosei,4-4°5 cm. diametro, subnutavtes. 
Calycis segmenta crassa, fere libera, persistentia, valde imbricata, inaequalia, 
lanceolata vel ovata, vix acuta, interiora altius inserta. Corolla late 
campanulata; tubus brevis; limbi lobi 5, imbricati, leviter recurvi, ambitu 
rotundati, irregulariter dentati. Stamina 5, petalis alterna, inter se 
libera, tubo corollae usque ad apicem adnata, quam corollae lobi breviora; 
antherae breves, dorso filamento adnatae. Stamznodia 5, squamiformia, 
incurva, ovarium velantia. Ovariwm globosum, 3-loculare ; stylus filiformis, 
stamina superans, stigmate obscure trilobo. Ovulda in loculis numerosa, 
apap angulo interiori affixis inserta. Capsula globosa, loculicide 
ehiscens, polysperma.—Schizocodon uniflorus, Maxim. Mel. Biol. vi. p. 274; 
Honzo Zufu, vol. xvii. p. 27. 
The Diapensiaceae consist of about half-a-dozen genera 
and twice as many species of dwarf herbs and shrubs 
inhabiting the temperate and arctic regions of the northern 
hemisphere, but chiefly mountain pine-woods in temperate 
latitudes. They now only occur in widely separated areas, 
and some of them are very rare, which is suggestive of a 
former more general distribution. Most of the genera are 
or have been in cultivation, and are illustrated in this 
Magazine; but from some cause they are rare in gardens, 
Pyzidanthera barbulata, Michx (t. 4592), is a very small 
trailing plant, a native of the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. 
Novemper, 1907. 
