178 THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. Lv,.i. xxvi. No. so 



Asplenium niponkum Mett. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Batav. 

 II. (1866), p. 240. 



var. metallicum Makino, var. nov. 



Frond: rachis virid-violascent ; pinnee pale and with the 

 violascent midrib above, light green and with the darkish- 

 viridescent midrib beneath ; pinnules darkish in the lower ones, 

 light violaceous in the midrib above and darklsh-violascent 

 beneath. 



Nom. Jap. Nishiki-shida. 



Hab. Japan. 



Bianthus kiusiana Makino, sp. nov. 



Perennial, glabrous, loosely or densely ceespitose. Rhizome 

 short or elongate, usually erect, woody, often stout, frequent- 

 ly ramose with ascending branches; roots elongate, ramose, 

 with short rootlets. Stems few to numerous, erect and 

 ascending or declinato-ascending, often decumbent at the base, 

 simple or ramose at the base, slender, terete, glabrous, densely 

 foliiferous below^ and passing into a flowering stem above, 

 usually densely or laxly provided with the basal portion of the 

 old petioles or often also the old midrib, about 7-50 cm. long; 

 nodes approximate or remote, somewhat prominent ; internodes 

 straight. Leaves usually dense, opposite, spreading or erect- 

 patent, oblanceolate, spathulato-oblong, or oblong, cuneate 

 below and further often attenuated to a short or long petiole, 

 which is shortly connate at base, acute and recurved at apex, 

 entire, ciliated with patent hairs, thickish, green above, light 

 green beneath, shining on both surfaces, subtriplinerved, about 

 1-8 cm. long, ^-1| cm. wide, gradually decreasing in size to- 

 wards the top of the stem, rosulate at the summit of the 

 sterile stem ; midrib carinate beneath, sulcate above ; veins 

 inconspicuous. Cyme 1-submany-flowered, with usually alter- 

 nate or rarely opposite peduncles, which are erect or erect-patent ; 

 bracts small, subulate, very acuminate, scarious below on 

 margins. Flower shortly pedicallate, 2^-2^ cm. across, purple 

 but white and variegated towards the margin, deeper-purple 

 towards the throat and with very deep purple 3-spots, which 



