126 BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. [Vol. xv:. 



Acaulescent. Leaves deltoid-lanceolate, subcordate or truncate at tlie 

 base, acuminate with an obtuse tip, irregularly inciso-serrate or irregularly 

 lobulato- serrate with obtuse-tipped teeth, thinly pubcrulent above, glabrous 

 or thinly puberulent along nerves beneath, minutely ciliated, penninerved, 

 about 3 cm. long, 1|-1| cm. wide, but attaining about 9 cm. long, 4 

 cm. wide after anthesis ; veins 4-5 on each side, loose, ascending ; 

 petiole narrowly winged above, glabrate above or pubescent, green above, 

 purple below; stipules adnate below, the free portion subulate -linear, 

 acuminate, loosely and minutely glanduloso-ciliated. Peduncle equalling 

 or slightly exceeding the leaves in height, glabrous or jjubescent below ; 

 bracts 2, erect, opposite or subopposite, angustato-linear, agute, thin, very 

 laxly glanduloso-ciliated at the base, 7-12 mm. long. Flower about l|chi. 

 across, violet. Sepals lanceolate, acute, entire, glabrous, with 3 main 

 nerves and laxly anastomosing veinlets, G-8 mm. long ; the basal auricles 

 rectangular or subsemiorbicular, truncate or subtruncate and pauci-dentate 

 or scarcely crenulate at the apex, about 2i-3mm. long, but that of the 

 superior sepal deltoid-lanceolate, and those of the lateral sepals minute and 

 deltoid. Petals narrowly oblong, slightly attenuated below, rounded- 

 subretuse at the apex, the lateral ones slightly bearded, about 13-14 mm. 

 long, 5|-6 mm. broad ; calcar scarcely shorter than the sepals, oblong, 

 rounded at the end, straight, about G mm. long. Connective-tip oval- 

 orbicular; anther-appendages more or less arcuate, broadly linear below 

 but narrowly attenuated above, obtuse-tipped, three- fourths as long as the 

 calcar. Ovary ovate, acute, glabrous ; style equalling the ovary in length, 

 gradually enlarged above, glabrous, geniculated at the base ; stigma nar- 

 rowly obovate, beaked. Fl. April. 



llab. Prov. MuSASUi : Mt. Mitsumine (J. Yasuda ! April 4, 189o), 

 Tokyo, cult. {S. Fwnikaioa\ 1901; T. 3IaMno ! May 1902). 



The apex and teeth of leavt-s of the figure in liuuma's Somoku- 

 Dzusetsu, XVII. fol. 57 recto, are too sharp. 



Viola Patrini DC. var. minor Makino in Dot. J\Iag., Tokyo, VI. 

 (1892) p. 50. 



(Smaller. Leaves deltoid-lanceolate, acute, truncato-subcordate at the 

 base, crenato-serrate but depressed-crt'nate above, thin, glabrous, attaining 

 about 6 cn:i. long, 3 cm. broad after anthesis ; petiole very narrow, oxalate, 

 or very narrowly alate above, longer than the blade. Peduncles often 

 many, longer than or about equal to the leaves, gracile, filiform. Flowers 



