,902.] OBSERVATIONS ON THE FLORA OF JAPAi^. 133 



Leaves glabrous. Petals white ! as is /?. Okuhoi, but darkish-yellow 

 when dried, the lower one often violet-striped. 



Hah. Prov, Musashi: Tokyo {J. Matsumura\ herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. 

 Univ. Tokyo, April 18, 1879; T. Muldno\ April I, 1890), Shimura {T. 

 3Iakino ! March 30, 1890) ; Prov. Shimoosa : Konodai (i?. Yatabe and J. 

 Maisumura ! herb. ibid. April 18, 1879) ; Prov. Idzu : Near Hirai {S. 

 Okuho ! herb. ibid.). 



/9. Okuboi Makino var. nov. 



Leaves sparsely pubescent. I'ediincles sometimes reddish. 



Hah. Prov. Tosa : Nanokawa {T. Ulakinol Nov. 1884), Shimonano- 

 kawa (K. Wafanahel April 13, 1888), Mt. Yokogura (T. Makim\ 1885; 

 T. Yoshinagal May 1895), Funato (T. Makino \ Nov. 1885), Mt. Kuishi 

 {T. 3hkino\ Oct. 7, 1892), Mt. Kuishi in Tadzikawa-mura {T. Blakinol 

 May 6, 1893) ; Prov. IMusashi : Tokyo (J. Matsumura ! herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. 

 Univ. Tokyo, April 14, 1880; T. Makino \ April 1893, Sept. 13, 1893),- 

 Adzusawa {T. Makino\ April 14, 1894), Nobitome {T. Makino\ May 13, 

 1894), Mt. Mitake {S. Matsicda ! herb. ibid. May 15, 1900), Mt. Takao 

 {T. Makino I June 1902); Prov. Sagami : Mt. Oyama (S. Matsudal 

 herb. ibid. May 18, 1900); Prov. AwA (=BosiiD): Mt. Kiyosumi {S. 

 Okuho ! herb. ibid. June 18, 1882) ; Prov, Idzu : Near Ilabu-mura in 

 Isl. Oshima {S. Okuho ! herb. ibid. April 17, 1887). 



Viola Bisseti Maxim, in Bull. Soo. Nat. Mosc. 1879, p. 5, et in litt. 

 1888; Makino in Bot, Mag,, Tokyo, VL p. 50. 



Viola vaginata var. anrjustifolia Yatabe in herb. Sc. Cdll. Imp. 

 Univ. Tokyo, et in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, V. p. 319. 



Acaulescent ; roots long, often thickish, with delicate rootlets. Rhi- 

 zome 1^-8 cm. long, attaining about 5 mm. across, erect, or oblique, or 

 repent, sometimes branched, articulated, hard, the iuternode sometimes 

 more or less elongated; vagina? of the neck chestnut-coloured, ovato-subu- 

 late or deltoid-subulate, acuminate, membranaceous, minutely glanduloso- 

 ciliated, ^-l|cm. long. Leaves few, long-petioled, deltoid-lanceolate 

 and shallowly cordate at the base and 2^-8 cm. long, 1 J-3 cm. wide in 

 flower, but after anthesis developing further and becoming subdeltoid- 

 lanceolate or deltoidly broad-lanceolate prolonged-ovate in form, attaining 

 about 12 cm. long, and 5 cm. broad in size, dee[ily auriculate with ovate or 

 elli[)tical lobes and the oi)ened or the nearly connivent sinus at the base, 

 depressingly crenato-serrate, acuminate with an obtuse or acutish tip, membra- 



