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que, elongate, attaining about 10 cm. in length, thicker alx)ve, rooting, 

 estoloniferous, nigrescent, hard, covered with old brown vaginte toward the 

 neck. Leaves tufted, erect-patent, long-petiolate, few to several, cordato- 

 rotuned in outline, usually acuminate, cordate at the base with a deep 

 suhclosed sinus, palmately 7-fid with sharp sinuses ; lobes deltoid or deltoid- 

 ovate, acuminate or acute, lobulate and inciso-serrate with deltoid or deltoid- 

 ovate acute teeth, flaccidly herbaceous, membranaceous when dried, purple- 

 green, thinly pilose above, glabrous beneath, palmate-nerved, 5-9 cm. long, 

 5-8 cm. broad ; petiole longer than the blade, glabrous, attaining 12 cm. in 

 length ; vagin;e ovate or broadly ovate, obtuse, free from the petiole above, 

 membranaceous, rufous-brown, entire-margined, 10-18 mm. long. Scapes 

 few to several, exceeding the leaves in height, erect, elongate, longer than the 

 raceme, glabrous below, shortly and disperscdly glanduloso-hairy and very laxly 

 dispersed with minute sterile scaly bracts above, sometimes furnished with a 

 small leaf in the lower portion. Eacerae angustate, 7-8 mm. across, erect, 

 densely and secundly many-flowered, attaining 10cm. or more long; rachis 

 slender, dispersedly and shortly glanduloso-hairy. Flowers 9-10 mm. across, 

 but about 4 ram. across in calyx, pedicellate ; pedicels short, erect-patent, 

 equal to or shorter than the flowers, sparsely and shortly glanduloso-hairy 

 and very minutely puberulent ; bracts minute, membranaceous, subulato- 

 deltoid or rounded-deltoid, acute, often glanduloso-subdenticulate, about 

 one-half as long as the pedicel ; bracteoles very minute, ova to-subulate, or 

 oblong. Calyx 5-parted, thinly dispersed with minute granular glands exter- 

 nally; lobes erect, but reflexed above, deltoid, mucronato-acute, entire, mem- 

 branaceous, one-nerved ; tube depressed-obconical, adherent to ovary within 

 excepting the upper portion, acute or subobtuse at the base. Petals 

 5, patent, longer than the calyx-lobes, 3-|-4 mm. long, 3-parted Mow the 

 middle into setaceo-linear lobes, dispersedly granuloso-glandular dorsally, 

 viridescent-purple, the lateral lobes erect-patent and shorter than the mid- 

 lobe. Stamens 5, opposite with petals and closely placed before them, 

 shorter than the calyx-lobes ; anther broadly corda to-rotund ; filament very 

 shortly subulate. Disk thickish, flat on surface. Style short, erect, 

 shortly attenuated above ; stigmas 2, approximately placed, thick, depressed, 

 oblong-semiorbicular, obtuse-edged, very obscurely bilobed. Ovary 1-celled ; 

 ovules minute, rather many. 



Hah. Prov. Wakasa : Near Kumagawa {K. Tsuzi ! April 10, 1901). 



Rare species; this difiers from MiteUajaponicaW\({. { — M. longiscapa 

 Makino) by the smaller and .denser flowers, 3-fid petals, semiglabrous leaves, 

 glabrous petiole, sterile bracts upon the scape, etc. 



