1905.] 



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Cymbidium Hoosai Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XVI. (1902) p. 27.= 

 Cymbidium sinense Willd. Sp. PL IV. (1805) p. Ill ; Pers. Syn. PI. 

 II. (1807) p. 517; Spreng. Syst. Veg. III. (1826) p. 723 (chinense); Ait. 

 Hort. Kew. ed. 2, V. p. 214 ; Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. PI. p. 162 ; et in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. III. (1859) p. 30; Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 XXXVI. p. 31. 



Epidendrum sinense Andr. 'Bot. Rep. III. tab. 216'; Bot. Mag. tab. 888. 



Cymbidium fragrans Salisb. 'in Trans. Hort. Soc. I. (1812) p. 298.' 



Cymbidium ensifolium Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 13, pro parte. 



Noin. Jap. Hosai-ran. 



Distrib. British India and China. 



Viola (Nomimium) blanda Willd. Hort. Berol. t. 24 ; Pursh, Fl. Am. 

 Sept. I. p. 172 ; Nutt. Gen. N. Am. PI. I. p. 149 ; Spreng. Syst. Veg. I. p. 

 798 ; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. I. p. 76 ; DC. Prodr. I. p. 295 ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. 

 I. p. 247 ; Rcem. et Schult, Syst, Veg. V. p. 358 ; Torr. et Gray, Fl. N. 

 Am. I. p. 138; Regel, PI. Radd. I. p. 234, tab. 6, fig. 20-23; A. Gray, 

 Man. Bot. ed. 5, p. 77, et Syn. Fl. N. Am. I. 1, p. 198 ; Wood, Cl.-Book, 

 Bot. p. 242 ; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 732. 



Viola brachyceras Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. XV. (1842) p. 301 ; 

 Ledeb. 1. c. p. 246. 



Viola pallens Forster ex Rcem. et Sclmlt. 1. c. p. 359. 



Perennial, acaulescent. Rhizome subterranean, slender, creeping, ascend- 

 ing above, gracile and rarely branched in the lower portion, loosely with 

 delicate ramose roots throughout, about 2-6 cm. long, hard, approximately 

 with notched numerous nodes having old rusty-brown stipules and the base 

 of petioles. Leaves 1 to 4, long-petiolate, reniform, suborbiculato-reniform, 

 or ovato-reniform, deeply cordate with a close or open sinus at the base, truncate 

 or truncato-obtuse or shortly produced or angulato-obtuse with a callose end at 

 the apex, depressed-crenate with papillato-subcallose point, membranaceous, 

 very thinly pubescent or glabrate above, glabrous beneath, loosely ciliated 

 or glabrous on margin, 16-22 mm. long, 18-24 mm. broad in flower, but 

 afterwards attaining nearly 45mm. long, 54mm. broad; nerves delicate, 

 7_9_ ra diato-palmate, with loose veinlets ; petiole slender, gracile. wing- 

 less, glabrous, about 3-6 cm. long in flower, but then attaining about 

 9 cm. long ; stipules erect, subulato-deltoid, usually produced-acuminate, 

 shortly adherent to the petiole, membranaceous, loosely papilloso-ciliated on 



