124 UOTANICAL MAGAZTNK rvoi. xvi. 



This species is vt^ry closely allied to the Corean Viola alhida Palib. 

 Consj). Fl. Koicse I. }). 30, tab. 2, fig. 2. 



Viola (Nomiminm) Miyabei IMaldno sp. nnv. 



Viola phalncrocarpa var. 'laa/jor IMaxini. c.k \\. ]\Iiyal)(\ 



Viola phalacrorarpa vnr. pallida Yata1)(>, ex purt(% in T'nt. jMag., 

 Tokyo, VI. (1892) p. 102. 



Acanlescent ; rhizome short, erect, sonK^tiines thick, with stout roots. 

 Leaves few, long-petioled, ovate, or subdeltoid -ovate, obtuse, often slightly 

 attenuated above, cordate with an open sinus, depressed crenate, mem- 

 branaceous, glabrous above, piloso - pubescent on tlie nerves beneath, 

 green, sometimes with purple in the middle, 4-7^ cm. long, 2-|-4| cm. 

 broad ; veins very loose, arcuate ; petiole elongated, usually longer than 

 the blade, pilose, sometimes very narrowly winged above, 4-14 cm. long; 

 stipules thinly membranaceous, subulato-lanceolate to linear, sharply iicum- 

 inate, adnate to the petiole with the lower portion, loosely glanduloso- 

 denticulate, the free portion about 4-9 mm. long. Flowers large, 2-3 

 cm. across, rose-pur[)lis]i ; peduncle shorter^ than the leaves, lew, sparsely 

 pilose ; bracts in the middle of the peduncle, opposite or subo])posite, 

 linear, erect, 4-7 mm. long. Sepals lanceolate, acutish or subobtuse, 



thin, gi-een, with 3 main nerves and loose veinlets, 8-11 mm. long; 

 the basal auricles glabrous, entire, depressed -semiorbicular, but ovato- 

 semiorbicular in those of the lateral 2 se]ials. Petals obovate or broadly 

 obovate, emarginate or retuse or rounded iit a\)ex, shortly cuneately nar- 

 rowed below, about 15-20 mm. long, 8-14 mm. wide, the lateral ones 

 always bearded ; calcar shorter than the sepals, oblong-cylindrical, rounded 

 at the end, 5^-8 mm. long, 2-2i mm. broad. Connective-tip broadly 

 ovate, obtuse; anther-appendages linear-fihform, obtuse, 4-,5imm. long. 

 Ovary ovate, glabrous ; style scarcely longer than the ovary, glabrous, 

 enlarged above, geniculate at the base ; stigma dilated into a deltoid and 

 subbilobed face, the beak very short. 



Hah. Prov. Hhimoi'Suke : Nikko (Herb.! Kc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, 

 May 1887) ; Prov. Isiiikahi in Hokkaido : Omagari in Tsukisa])pu (A'. 

 lil'iyabc \ herb. ibid. June 9, 1884), Between Supjxiro and Chitose {Y. 

 TohibucJiil herb. ibid. June i:'>, 1889). 



This species i;-i found in the middle and northern Japan. It is 

 distinct fron\ I'iola plKihtcrocarpa IMaxim. ( = / '. ConiUi Franch. et Sav.). 



{To he contimied.) 



