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and 9-10 mm. ](iiig ; i)eti<)le stont-filiform, shorter or raoro or less longer 

 tlian the blade ; stipule relatively large, broad, membranaceous, adnate 

 bf'low, the upprr free ])ortion subulate -lanceolate to subulate - deltoid, 

 acuuiinate, (^ntire, longer tlian the adiiate portion in the superior 

 leaves. Peduncle erect, exceeding the leaves, loosely branched; bracts 

 leaf-like and usTially stipulate but smaller, the superior ones much de- 

 creasing' in size and linear. Flowers pedicellate, about li cm. across, 

 yellow. Calyx persistent, .3-partite; lobes spreading but subercct in fruit, 

 lanceolate, acute-acuminate, entire, trinerved at the base and reticulated- 

 veined above, G-8 cm. long; tube short, tiat, hirsute below internally: 

 bracteoles 5, linear, acutish, about measuring a half length of calyx-lobes. 

 Pt-tals .5, scarcely exceeding the calyx-lobes, orbiculati^, rounded at top, entire, 

 very shortly unguiculate, with a fine venation, about 7 nun. long, deciduous. 

 Stamens rather numerous, loosely placed on the ealyx-tube, shorter than 

 the calyx-lobes; filaments filiform, glabrous; anther small, ovato-orbicular. 

 Ovaries many, small, ovoid, clothed with long pale hairs ; style erect, lateral, 

 filii'onn, glabrous, scarcely higher than hairs of the nvary; stigma terminal, 

 not thick ; recei^tacle small, shortly ovato-conical. vVchenes ovoid, very 

 slightly compressed laterally, covered with Inng pab- iiairs and jv-rsistont style, 

 a]>out 1 :-^ mm. long; carpel hard. 



FotcntiUa tridentata var. IMiyabe. 



Hah. Trov. Kusmuo in F[okkai<l6 : ]\It. .Aleakan (7'. Kair.al:ami\ 

 August 1897). 



This species differs in respects from FutoitiUa tridenhda Soland. and 

 /'. niiddiiiKi Camb., though the leaflets of all three species are :3-dentate 

 at the a.|)ex, like those of SiJdxddia proci/vihens Linn. 



1 have named it In honour of Dr. Kingo IMiyabe, Professor of Sapporo 

 Agricultui'al College, ami my thanks ar'' due to Mr. Takiva K'awakatni, who 

 collected it and sent me kindly. 



Potentilla ancistrifolia Bunge Enum. PI. Chin. Boreal, p. 25, no, 

 14."); Lehm. llevis. Potentil. p. 4?., tab. IS: Maxim, in Bull. Nat. Mosc 

 (L879; p. 17: Forbes et Tfeni'^l. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXIIL p. 240; 

 I'ranch. in Ibill. Soc. I'.ot. France, XXVL p. 83. 



Fotentilla Dicl-hi.sii 1^'ranch. et Hav. Enum. PI. Jap. TL p. 337. 



TIah. Prov. MusAsnr : Mt, Yokami {T. Mal:ino\ July 16, 1888); 

 Prov. Suimotsukk: Nikko (ITerb ! Sc. Cull. Lnp. Pniv. Tokyo, June 20, 

 1878: T. i)lal-lao\ 1!)00) : Pr.v. Twasiiiho : Vumoto in Aidzu {Z. Matsu- 

 iiiiir(i\ herb. ibid. Aug. 4, 1879): Prov. Suinvno: Mt. Togakushi (/?. 



