l'J02.] 



0BSI':RVATI0NS on the flora of japan. 141 



Primtda cunei/olia Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XI. (1897) p. 112, 

 ex parte, non Lecleb. 



Primula saxi/mgaefolia Lelim. Monogr. Primal. (1817) p. 80, tab. 9 ; 

 Roeni. et Bchult. Syst. Veg. IV. (1819) p. 150, Add. p. 785; Spreng. 

 Syst. Veg. I. (1825) p. 577; Duby in DC. Prodr. VIII. p. 39; Cham, et 

 Hchlecht. in Linn;ca I. p. 212; Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. II. p. 121; Hook. 

 et Arn. Bot. Beeoliey's Voy. p. 128. 



Hab. Hokkaido [Ezo] (L. Boehmer ! herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo), 

 Mt. Atoia in Isl. Etrof {T. Kaivakami, Aug. 10, 1898), Isl. Riishiri {T. 

 Kaioahami ! herb. ibid. Aug. 1899). 



/9. hakusanensis (Franch.) Makino. 



Frimula hakusanensis Franch. in Bull, de la soc. philomath, de Pari-, 

 8 mai 1886, p. 6, et 14 avril 1888, p. 10; Pax in Engler's Bot. Jahrl). X. 

 p. 211 ; Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XI. (1897) p. 112, et XIII. (1899) 

 p. 83. 



Primula cunei/olia Franch. et Sav. Enura. PI. Jap. II. j). 429, non 



Ledeb. 



Hab. Prov. Kaga : Mt. Haknsan {Pi. Yatabe and J. Matsumura ! 

 herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Aug. 8, 1881). 



;-. heterodonta (Franch.) Makino. 



Primula heterodonta Franch. in Bull, de la soc. philomath, de Paris, 

 8 mai 1886, p. 7, et 14 avril 1888, p. 10; Pax in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. 

 X. p. 211 ; Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XI. (1897) p. 112, et XIII. 

 (1899) p. 83. 



Leaves tufted, long-petioled, ovate, elliptical-ovate, or obovato-oblong, 

 obtuse, acute and decurrent to the petiole below, irregularly or du[)licately 

 crenato-dentate, thin, glabrous, 2-5 cm. long, li-3cm. broad, the inferior 

 ones smaller spathulate-obovate and dentate ; petiole usually longer than 

 the blade, broad. Scape usually 1, erect, terete, slender, exceeding the 

 leaves in height, green, very minutely glandular, 9-15 cm. long in flower. 

 Umbel 3-15-flowered ; pedicel narrow, very minutely glandular, 8-12 mm. 

 lung, but attaining about 16 mm. in length in fruit, the outer ones erect- 

 patent or patulous ; bracts much shorter than the pediceles, linear, very 

 minutely glandular. Flowers 22-30 mm. across, purple. Calyx cam- 

 panulate, deeply 5-parted, green and often purplish above, very minutely 

 glandular and glanduloso-ciliated, about 31-6 mm. long ; lobes erect, lan- 

 ceolate, obtuse, with 3 main nerves. Corolla hypocrateriform ; limb 

 deeply 5-parted with closed sinuses, membranaceous, glabrous ; lobes 

 cuneate-obovate, 2-parted with an acuminate sinus, 10-14 mm. long, 8-11 



