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the typica growing near the foot, next one in the higher altitude. 

 Leaves resemble those of Viola pinnata Linn. 



subvar. c albida (Palib.) Makino. 



F/o/a a//j/c/aPaHb.Consp.Fl.Kor.L (1898), p. 30, tab. 3, fig. 2. 



Viola dissecta var. ch^rophylloides subvar. simpliciMia 

 Makino, MvSS. 



Leaves long-petiolate, simple, not disseeted, deltoid or ovato- 

 deltoid, cordate at the base, short-acuminate at the apex, usually 

 irregularly crenato-dentata obtuso-dentate or inciso-dentate, 

 green, 1^-12 cm. long, l*-8i cm. wide. Flower white, marked 

 with violet veiny lines towards the base of the lower petal, 

 about 11- nearly 3 cm. across, odoriferous ; scape bi-bracteate 

 below the middle, viridescent and usuallv purpurascent. Sepals 

 lanceolate, viridescent. Petals oblong or obovate, lateral ones 

 bearded ; spur oblong. 



Hah. Corea: Keifukukyil in Keijo {K.Jol), Mt. Nanzan 

 r. Uchiyamal; A. Takahashi I ; S. Uvasa I) Mt. Hokkanzan 

 [S. Iwasal). 



var. eizanensis Makino, var. nov. 



Viola pinnata var. dissecta Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap p 84 • 

 Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. L p. 40, nee Turcz. nee Kegel. ' 



Viola pinnata var. chgeropliylhides Maxim, in Mel. Biol. 

 IX. p. 718 ; Franch. et Sav. 1. c. IL p. 646, non Regel. 



Viola chierophylloides Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XIX. 

 (1905), p. 17, non V. pinnata d. chxrophvlloides Regel. ' 



Viola pinnata Franch. et Sav. 1. c. IL p. 29l''(in consp 

 spec), non Linn. 



Acaulescent ; roots elongate, few, with fine rootlets, white 

 rhizome erect, thick, sometimes very thick, protected by va-in^J 

 above, sometimes attaining 3 cm. long. Leaves few- several- 

 or sometimes subnumerous-tufted, long-petiolate, trisected with 

 distinct petiolules, glabrous or puberulent on nerves and to- 

 wards the margin and also ciliated, subflaccid, membranaceous 

 green, heteromorphous ; those of the flowering time attaining 

 about 9 cm. long and 7 cm. broad; segments ovate broadly 

 ovate or oblong in outline, deeply dissected into lanceolate 

 or hnear-lanceolate acutish- or obtuse- or acuminate-tipped 



