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tant capsule in those of cleistogamous flowers, gracile, glabrous, about 

 3-4 cm. long; bracteoles 2, opt>osite or subopposite, placed above the 

 middle, minute, subukto-deltoid or oblong-lanceolate, mucronate-tir.ped, 

 uflen minutely glanduloso-crenulate, l|-2 mm. lung. Flower yellow, about 

 1.1-11 cm. across. Sepals glabrous, tliin, obtuse, entire, 3-nerved, green, 

 41-6 nun. long, the lower 2 lanceolate, others narrowly lanceolate ; basal 

 auricles very tliort, truncate. Petals oblong-obovate, narrowed towards 

 the base, scarcely oblique in f..rm, rounded at apex, entire, with 3 main 

 nerves and very delicate veinlets, the upper 2 hardly smaller and 9-12 mm. 

 long, 4-6 mm. wide, the lateral 2 11-13 mm. long, 4i-6 mm. wide, the 

 lower one longer and broader, cuneately rhombeo-obovate, attenuated at 

 the base, sliortly produced into the obtuse-tipped deltoid apex, entire, 12- 

 141 ram. long, 7-10 mm. broad ; calcar short, conico-semiorbicular, thickish- 

 wailed, about 2 mm. long. Connective-tip broadly ovate, rounded-obtuse, 

 membranaceous, somewViat shorter than the anther-cells ; antlier-appendages 

 very short, subdeltoid, with a thick front margin. Ovary ovate, acute, 

 glabrous; style a little longer than the ovary, enlarged above, geniculated 

 at the base ; stigma bilobed, the lobes ovato-orbicular. Cai)sule oval, 

 obtuse, glabrous, 6-8 mm. long. 



Hah. Prov. Etciui : Mt. Tateyama {It. Yatabc and J. Blatsumura ! 

 July 24, 1884); Prov. PiiRUCUu : Mt. Iwate (//. Sakiirail herb. Imp. 

 Mas. Sept. 1890). 



This differs from the type princii)ally by having the thicker glabrous 

 and impressed-veined leaves and larger flowers. It was also collected on 

 Mt. Iwate in the province of Kikuchu by Dr. Kazuma Jo, in 1901, and 

 the name Takane-simiire, or ali)ine Violet, was pri)[)0sed by him, and it 

 is cultivated by Mr. Bunsai loki in Nikkij. 



Primula cuiiei folia Ledeb. 



a. typica Makino. 



Primula cuneifolia Ledeb. in Mem. de I'Acad. d. sc. d. St. Petersb. 

 V. (1814) p. 522, et Fl. Eoss. III. (1846-51) p. 15 ; Pvegel et Til. Fl. 

 Ajan. (1858) p. Ill; Eegel in Act. Hort. Petrop. III. 1, p. 150; 

 Herd. PI. Pvadd. IV. p. 115 ; Fr. Schm. Eeis. im Anmr. u. Ins. Sachal. 

 p. 56; A. Gray Syn. Fl. North Amer. 11. 1, }). 59; Miyabc in Mem. 

 Bost. Sue. Nat. Hist. IV. (1890) p. 249 ; Pax in Engler's But. Jahrb. 

 X. p. 211; Makino in But. Mag., Tokyo, XIH. (1899) p. 83. 



Friviula cuneifolia Uuby in DC. Prodr. VIII. \s. 39. 



