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smaller, 10-12 mm. across, deep violet. Petals usually narrower. Capsule 

 about 7 mm. long. 



Hah. Prov. Tosa: Bahawa {T. Ma]:ino\ 1885, 1889); Prov. Iyo: 

 TJwazima {Z. Jhnemura ! 189G). 



Viola (Nominiium) Boissieuana Makino sp. uov. 



Viola Selhirkii IMaxim. in litt. 1888 ; Makino in P.ot. ]\Iag., Tokyo, 

 n. p. 252, non Pursh. 



Acaulescent, pygm.TOUs. Poots long, witli fine rootlets. Pliizome 

 erect, short or slender, inarticulated, with a few small membrancoous scales 

 at the base. Leaves few to several, or sometimes many, erect, or erect- 

 patent, (l(^lt()id-ovate or deltoidly ovate-rounded, often lunate-ovate after 

 anthesis, obtuse or acutish, auriculate-cordato with a deep sinus and ofttai 

 connivent lobes at the base, crenate-serrate with more or less concave- 

 margined teeth, membranaceous, glabrous, or sparsely pubescent with white 

 fine hairs above, l-3i cm. long, 1-21 cm. broad; veins loose, 3-4 on each 

 side ; petiole gracile, exalate, glabrous, usually longer than the blade, \\- 

 (j\ cm. long ; stipules subulate or linear, adnate to the petiole at the base, 

 thin, entire or panci-glandular-subscrrulate. Peduncles erect, about 1-7, 

 exceeding the leaves in height, but shorter than leaves in those of the 

 cleistogamous flowers after the normal flowers, slender, glabrous, bracteate in 

 the middle or below it, 2-10 cm. long; bracteoles 2, approximate, linear, 

 3-5 mm, long. Flowers as in those of V. Maximowicziana Makino in 

 size, form, and colour, but the sepals glabrous and not reflexed, and the 

 lateral ones equalling the others in size, the petals sometimes broader, the 

 stigma subdeltoid with a short beak. Capsules as also in those of V. 

 Maximoiuiczlana Makino. Fl. A[)ril-June. 



Hah. Prov. Tosa: Mr. Yokogura {T. Makino \ 1884, May 1893), 

 Nagasaka-mura {K. Watanabel April 22, 1888), Nanokawa (/u JFafanabel 

 May G, 1889), Ushioe-yama in Kochi (IL Yatahe ! herb. 8c. Coll. Imp. 

 Univ. Tokyo, Aug. 1, 1888); Prov. Ivo: Mt. Ishidzuchi {R. Yatahe \ 

 herlj. ibid. Aug. 9, 1888). 



Allied to Viola Sieholdi Maxim. I have named it in honour of 



Pr. H. de Boissieu, who made a valuable study on Japanese Violets. 



Viola Seiboldi Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 729 ; Franch. et Sav. 

 Enuin. PL Jap. IL p. C47 ; Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, II. p. 252. 



Viola Selkirhii Miq. Prol. Fl. Jaji. p. 85, pro parte, ex Maxim. 1, c. 



