jog BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. ivoi. xvi. 



Viola Raddeana Regel PI. Racld. I. pp. 218, 25G, tab. 7, fig. I-.'); 

 Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 747; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXIII. ]>. 

 54; Korshinsky in Act. Hort. Petrop. XII. p. 311; Palib. Consp. Fl. 



Koreae I. p. 35. 



Viola Raddeana var. japonica Makino in But. Mag., Tokyo, VI. p. 50. 

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



Bot. Mag., Tokyo, V..p. 318. 



Caulescent. Rhizome short. Stems 1-6, erect, foliose, slender, 

 flexuoLis, glabrous, dark-purple towards the base, the largest one attaining 

 about 12i decim. in height and 3} mm. in diameter after anthesis. 

 Leaves afternate, erect, petiolate, deltoid-lanceolate, acuminate with a 

 calioso-acutish tip, truncato-subcordate and sub=iagittate at tlie base, coarsely 

 depressed-crenatp, glabrous, thin, with loose veins, 31-11 cm. long, 1-4 cm. 

 across; petiole shorter than the blade, narrowly winged above, 2-5 cm. 

 long; stipules foliaceous, free, erect, longer or shorter than the petiole, 

 broadly linear, acute, one-laciniato-dentate and laxly obscurely crenato- 

 serrate, thin, longitudinally 3-nerved, attaining about Gem. long. Pe- 

 duncle axillary, shorter than the leaves, gracile, glabrous, about C-10 cm. 

 long, bracteate above the middle ; bracteoles 2, approximate, subulato- 

 linear, 4-7 mm. long. Flowers small, 9-12 mm, across, pale-cteruleo- 

 violascent. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, 3-nerved, 5-8 mm. 

 long ; basal auricles very short, truncato-subdentate. Petals oblong, 

 attenuated below, rounded-obtuse at the apex, 7-10 mm. long, the lateral 

 ones beardless and furnished with a callus at the lower portion, the lower 

 one shorter than the others, concave, violet-striped ; calcar short, semi- 

 orbicular, slightly protruded behind beyond the sepals," minutely pubescent 

 within. Connective-tip ovato-deltoid, obtuse ; appendages lamelliform, 

 subrectangular, longitudinally adherent to nearly the whole length of the 

 anther-cells, the outer margin thickish and parallel to the anther-cells. 

 Ovary ovate, glabrous ; style narrow, equalling the ovay in length ; stigma 

 capitato-deltoid, with a very short beak. Capsule oblong, acute, 10-13 

 mm. long, glabrous, with coriaceous carpels. Seeds obovoid, smooth, 

 darkish when matured. 



Hab. Prov. Musashi : Toda-hara (T. MaJcinol June 24, 1888, May 

 1891; S. Ikenol herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, June 24, 1888); Prov. 

 Shimoosa : Mama {T. Malcino ! Aug. 7, 1894, June 23, 1895, May 189C, 

 May 29, 1898). 



This is allied to Viola elatior Fries (=r. montana DC.) and V. 

 stagnina Kitaibel. 



