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This comes nearest to Viola variegata Fisch., but the shape of the 



sti<Tma is different from it. . 



° There are many specimens before me, collected from various localities 

 of Japan but I do not find Viola variegata Fisch. among them ; V. 

 variegata of various authors as a Japanese plant is probably not correct. 



Viola (Nomimium) shikokiana Makino sp. nov. 

 AcaulHScent, stoloniferous ; stolons hypog;^30US, elongate, filiform, with 

 delia^te roots. Leaves few, lung-petioled, rounded-ovate or ovate very 

 shortly acuminate or acute with a calloso-obtuse or calloso-acutish tip, deeply 

 and subclosely auriculato-cordate at the base, crenato-serrate with a subcallose 

 tip membranaceous, glabrous above, pilosulate along the nerves beneath, 

 yellowish-viridescent when dried, 11-5 cm. long, 11-31 cm. broad; veins 

 loose and arcuate upwards; petiole gracile, elongate, exalate, glabrous, 

 31-16 cm. Ion-; stipules free, minute, subulate, thinly membranaceous, 

 gknduloso-margined, 1^-31 mm. long. Peduncles 1-2, exceeding the 

 leaves in height in flower, gracile, glabrous, bracteate in the middle; 

 bracteoles 2, approximate, subulato-linear, glanduloso-margined, thin, 3-3i 

 mm long. Flower about li-licm. across, white. Sepals lanceolate, 

 or narrowly lanceolate, subcalloso-subobtuse, green, hyaline-margined, gla- 

 brous, 3-nerved, 5-51 mm. long ; basal auricles very short, but larger and 

 deltoid with a produced end in those of the lower sepals. Petals nar- 

 rowly oblong, somewhat attenuated below, rounded or subretuse at the 

 apex 9-11 mm. long, the lateral ones very slightly bearded, the lower 

 one 'shorter and violet-striped ; calcar short, shorter than the sepals, oval- 

 rounded. Connective-tip ovato-rounded ; appendages short and very 

 broad, rounded-obtuse, oblique, thickly margined. Ovaiy ovate, glabrous ; 

 style scarcely longer than the ovary, enlarged above ; stigma obovate, with 

 a short beak. Capsule oblong, acute, glabrous. Fl. May. 



llab, Prov. TosA in Isl. Bhikoku : Mt. Turigata {T. MaJdno\ May 

 22, 1889), Tadzikawa {T. Makino \ May 5, 1893). 



This comes near to Viola hlanda Willd., which have not yet been 



found in Japan. 



Viola Keiskei Miq. 



a. typica Makino. 



Viola Keislcci Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 85; Eranch. et Sav. Eunm. Pi. 

 Jap. I. p. 42, et II. p. 286 ; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 734 ; Boissieu 

 in Bull. Soc. bot. France XLVII. p. 322. 



