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the base, embracing the stein, blades broadly rounded, 3-lobate, lobes 

 roundly rhomboid slightly lobulate, or irregularly serrate, truncately 

 cordate at the base, nearly rounded at the apex. Cauliue leaves like 

 radical ones, petioles dilated at the base, embracing the stem, upper 

 ones trilobed, lobes acute. Panicles few-flowered or nearly reduced to 

 one flower, bracts minute lanceolate 2 mm. long, peduncles 1-i- cm. long. 

 Flowers, when opened, 7-8 mm. in diameter. Sepals 5, ekmgately oblong, 

 obtuse or rounded at the apex, 34 nun. long 1 mm. broad, hirsute on the 

 back. Petals 5-10, obovate, cuneate rounded at the apex, cuneate at the 

 base, 4 mm. long 2 mm. broad, distinctly glandulit'erous at the base. Stamens 

 nearly 20, 2 mm. long, anthers rounded emarginate at the apex, filaments 

 more or less complanate, carpophore oblongo -cylindrical. Carpels numerous. 

 Achenes obliquely rounded, l- mm. Ling, rostrate, minutely punctate at the 

 face, beaks very short. 



HAD. Ijioritsu : Liokugio. 



Near R. philippinensis MEIMI. et ROLFE, but differs from it by the 

 much smaller flowers and more round leaves. 



2, Ranunculus Kawakamii HAYATA (PI. VI.) Materials for a Flora 

 of Formosa p. 19. Perennial herb. Stem slender, 7 cm. long hirsute, few- 

 branched. Radical leaves clustered, longe petiolate, petioles 4-5 cm. long, 

 hirsute, or sul >glabrous, dilated at the base, turning to a stipule-like scale, 

 blades semiorbicular or rhomboid, rounded or obtuse at the apex, shortly 

 5-lobed, (lobes obtuse), entire downwards, acute or truncate at the base or 

 sometimes reniformed or cordate, hirsute near the margin, 10 mm. long, 

 12 mm. broad. Cauliue leaves smaller, hirsute, petioles dilated at the base, 

 embracing the stem. Flowers solitary 011 the apex of the branches, oi 1 

 axillary, peduncles 1 cm. long, hirsute ; flowers when opened 5 mm. in 

 diameter. Sepals 4-5, rounded, very concave, bi-ficl or rounded at the 

 apex, 2 mm. long, pilose outside. Petals 3-5, white, oblong, rounded at 

 the apex, 4 mm. long. Stamens nearly 10, 1| mm. long, anthers oblong, 

 rounded at the apex, filaments complauate, more or less shortly hirtellous at 

 the base. Carpels nearly 10. Syncarps globose. 



