228 BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. (vm. xvi 



? Viola variegata y. ireutiana Franch. et Sav. 1. c, p. 286, excl. syn. 



Hah. Prov. Tosa : Sakawa {T. Maldno \ 1885, May 1889), Mine iu 

 Ogawa-raura (T. Blakino ! May 21, 1889), Moriyama-mura (A" Watanabe !), 

 NanoUawa {K. Watanabe ! herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, April 17, 

 1890), Tadzikawa (7'. 3Jah'no\ May 1893) ; Prov. Hii;aciii : Mt. Taukuba 

 (T. Makinol April 5, 1894, May 1897, May 1900; G. Oioataril herb. ibid. 

 April 15, 1895); Prov, Ise : Bodaisen in Wat^rai-gori {Z. TJmemural). 



Viola (Nomimium) Maximowicziana Makino sp. nov. 



Viola Selldrldi forma major Maxim, in litt. 1888; Makino in Bot. 

 Mag., Tokyo, II. p. 253, 



Viola serpens Yatabe in herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, et in 

 Bot. Mag., Tokyo, VL p. 130, non Wall. 



Acaulescent, flaccid. Pvoots slender, with delicate rootlets. Rhizome 

 erect, often elongate, inarticulated with a few membranaceous scales (about 

 2-6 mm. in length) at the base. Leaves several, or sometimes many, 

 spreading from the top of the rhizome, elliptical or elliptical-ovate, but 

 (?vato-rounded in the inferior ones, obtuse, cordate at the base, with the 

 connivent lobes when recent, crenato-serrate, thin, flaccid-herbaceous, 

 sparsely pilose with white hairs, darkish-green and often al bo- variegated 

 along nerves above, often purpureo-violaceous beneath, 1-7 cm. long, |-4-| 

 cm. wide ; veins about 3-6 on each side, loose, ascending, arcuate ; veinlets 

 loose and inconspicuous; petiole exalate, pilose with patent white hairs or 

 glabrous, shorter or longer than the blade ; stipules linear or subulato- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, membranaceous, adnate . to the petiole with the 

 basal portion, minutely and laxly glanduloso-subciliated. Peduncles 

 slender, longer than the leaves, but shorter in those of the cleistogamous 

 flowers after the noi-mal flowers, glabrous or pilosulate with patent white 

 hairs, bracteate above the middle ; bracteoles 2, approximate or more or 

 less remote, linear, 2^-7 mm. long, glabrous or pilosulate. Flowers 

 white, about 10-15 mm. across. Sepals reflexed, oblong-lanceolate or 

 ovato-oblong, acute or obtuse, 3-5 mm. long, green, glabrous, or pilose with 

 white hairs dorsally, the lateral 2 smaller, the main nerves usually 3 ; the 

 basal auricles very short, depressed- or truncato-seraiorbicular, or some of 

 them subdeltoid. Petals narrowly oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, a little 

 attenuated below, obtuse, 7-10 mm. long, the lateral ones slightly bearded, 

 the lower one shorter concave and violet-striped ; calcar short, broadly 

 elliptical, a little longer than the sepals. Connective-tip ovate ; append- 



