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perianth patent and then retlexed, equal in size, ohlanceolate-linear, entire, 

 obtuse or acntish with a minute cuspidate point, Si-Sr} cm. long, 5-Gi mm. 

 Lroad, the upper one 5-nerved, the lateral ones G-nerved and scarcely carinate 

 dorsally. Inner perianth -leaves horizontal, closely placed to one another, 

 shorter than the outer ones, lanceolate, acute or acutish, entire, 9-nerved, 

 2-2|cm. lonp;, G-9mm. wide. Labellum horizontal, shorter than the 

 perianth, sessile, rounded at the base, very scarcely trilobed, the side-lobes 

 erect, entire and rounded -edged, pur[)le towards tlie margin and irregularly 

 barred below ; mid-lobe nuich reflexed, oblong-ovate, rounde<l-obtuse, entire 

 and more or less crispate, thicker towards the centre, yellowish, or very light 

 green and then yellowish, transversely and irregularly blotched with pur[)le, 

 10-lG mm. long, 9-lli mm. broad ; disk thick, with thick glabrous yellowish 

 or white and then yellowish lamellte l)etween the side lobes, forming a 

 deej) canal between them. Cfynostemium stout, 12- 14 mm. long, 31- 5ram. 

 broad, compressed, slightly arcuate forthwards, tlat and marked with longi- 

 tudinal purple spots, purple at top; clinandrium deltoid, obliquely truncate, 

 obtuse at the dorsal edge ; anther hemisiihserical, slightly compressed from 

 the front, truncate at the front margin, with an indentation at the dorsal 

 edge, subbilocular, yellow ; poUinia 4, sessile, nuich compressed, oval, waxy, 

 yellow, the gland lunato-deltoid, thin. Ovary cylindrical, shorter than or 

 equal to the perianth including the pedicel, glabrous, purple or greenish. 

 Flowers January-March. 



Hab. Prov. Musashi; 'Pokyo, Bot. Gard. Koishikawa, cult. (7: Ma]:i,w\ 

 Feb. 1902). 



This species was introduc<^d probably from China, but it is now fnnid 

 freely growing in Formosa. 



Forma Hakuran is only a form, having tlie sliglitly thinner and more 

 acuminate leaves, and usually the ftiwer and a little smaller and lighter- 

 colom-ed flower. 



Potentilla (Sect. I. A. Lehm.-) Miyabei Makino sp. nov. (1898). 



Tufted.? about .3cm. high in my specimen, covered with adpressed 

 pale hirsute hairs. Stem very short, erect, ligneous, leafy. Leaves dense, 

 petioled, flabellately simple-ternate ; leaflets sessile, obovato-spathulate to 

 oblong- spathulate, cuneate towards the base, truncate and coarsely .1- 

 dentate with equal acute or acutish and deltoid or ovato-deltoid teeth at 

 apex, thickly membranaceous, conrolorous, the middle one a little larger 



* Lehni.inn Revlsio Potentillaiiini ji. .". 



