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margin, brown, glabrous, about 2 mm. long. Peduncles 1-3, erect, usually 

 exceeding the leaves, slender, gracile, glabrous, about 2-9J cm. long, bracteolate 

 above the middle ; bracteoles 2, opposite or approximate, linear-subulate, 

 acuminate, glabrous, papillose on the basal margin, 2-2* mm. long. Flower 

 small, about 8 mm. across, white. Sepals oblong- to ovato-lanceolate, acutish- 

 obtuse at the apex, narrowly hyaline and sometimes minutely loose-ciliated 

 on margin, glabrous, delicately 3-nerved, about 3i mm. long excepting the 

 basal auricles, lateral ones somewhat shorter ; basal auricles depressed-semi- 

 orbicular, rounded at the apex, entire, |-| mm. long. Upper and lateral 

 petals obovato-oblong, attenuated below, rounded-obtuse at the apex, beard- 

 less, about 8 mm. long, 3 mm. or a little more wide ; the lower petal slightly 

 shorter and broader, obovate, emarginate at the apex, marked with dark 

 purple veins as are the lateral petals ; calcar short and small, shorter than 

 sepals, ovato-semiorbiculate, 1 mm. and a little more long, li mm. broad. 

 Stamens 2 mm. and a little more long ; connective-tip oblong-ovate, obtuse, 

 hardly shorter than the anther-cell ; appendages minute, short, subdeltoid- 

 semiorbiculate, rounded-obtuse, thicker towards the margin, 1 mm. long 

 Ovary ovoid, tapering above, glabrous, 1 mm. and a little more long ; style 

 longer than the ovary, exserted from the anther, geniculate at the base, 

 stout-filiform, about 2 mm. long ; stigma subcapitate, depressed-concave, semior- 

 biculately marginate excepting the lower side, provided with a minute short 

 straight and erect rostrum. Capsule elliposid, acute or obtuse, glabrous, 

 purple-maculate, 6 mm. long ; seed shortly ellipsoid. Flowers June. 



Nom. Jap. Usuba-sumire (T. Makino). 



Hab. Prov. Shimotsuke : Mt. Nyoho in Nikko (T. Makinol Aug. 1901, 

 July 1904) ; Prov. Shinano : Mt. Komagatake (K. Tanalca ! Sept. 25, 1902) ; 

 Prov. Kikuzen : Mt. Goyo in Kesen-gori (G. Tola ! no. 18, June 13, 1904) ; 

 Prov. Eikuchu : Mt. Hayachine (G. Yamada ! no. 60, Aug. 5, 1904). 



New to the Flora of Japan. It is found on alpine mountains in tin; 

 middle and northern Japan. 



Viola Yatabei Makino in Pot. Magaz., Tokyo, XVI. (1902) p. 122.= 

 Viola (Nomimium) yezoensis Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 736 (1876) ; 

 Boissieu in Bull. Soc. But. France (1900) p. 



Viola phalacrocarpa var. pallida Yatabe in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, VI. 

 (1892) p. L02, ex parte. 



Viola flaccida Makino in But. Mag., Tokyo.. XIII. (1899) p. 242, 

 novnen tan turn. 



