18 BOTANICAL MAQAZISE. [Vol. xix. 



Leaves oval-ovate, deeply cordate with a close sinu^, acute or subacute, 

 shallowly lobate with depressed-ovato-deltoid dentate lobes, very thinly 

 pilose or subglabrous, dark-green along the nerves. Petal simple, subulato- 

 filiform, smooth, recurved-reflexed, reddish above. Stigma semiorbicular 

 2-4-lobulate, red. Flowers in April. 



Hob. Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, cult. (T. Maldno\ May 9, 1904). 



This differs from the typical one of Mitella japonica Miq., which has 

 pinnate petals. 



Saxifraga (Diptera) nipponica Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XV. 

 (1901) p. 10. 



Perennial, constantly estoloniferous. Rhizome epigwous, glabrous, bay, 

 thick, cylindrical, long-creeping, radicaut, di-trichotoniously divaricato-ramose 



(the branches dividing from the apical portion of older rhizome), but some- 

 times short and erect or ascending with very short few branches and dense 

 roots. Radical leaves tui'ted at the apical end of branches of rhizome, 

 long-petiolate, spreading or erect, orbicular to orbiculato-reniform, cordate 

 with an open or closed sinus at the base, shallowly or obscurely many-lobate 

 with sharply and coarsely pauci-pluri-dentate or dentato-serrate (teeth del- 

 toid or depressed-ovato-deltoid in shape) lobes, ciliated, disparsed with erect 

 or suberect pilose hairs above, thinly pubescent or glabrous beneath, flaccid- 

 herbaceous, green, 2-6 cm. long, 2},-l cm. broad, palmately veined; petiole 

 semiterete or eompresso-terete, patently pilose or glabrous, viriduscent, 

 3-16 cm. long, vaginato-dilated and villoso-ciliated at the base ; cauline leaves 

 much reduced in size, shortly vaginato-dilated at the base, remotely placed, 

 usually 2 to 4, bract-like, linear, entire, sharply tipped, 7-13 mm. long, 

 or sometimes the lowest one with a small (about 8 mm. long) flabellato- 

 orbicular pauci-dentate and petiolate blade. Scape erect, much exceeding 

 the leaves and attaining about 30 cm. in height including the panicle, 

 slenderly terete, piloso-pubesctnt with spreading glandular hairs as are the 

 rachis, peduncles, and pedicels. Panicle loose, ovato-pyramidal or elliptical, 

 7-15 cm. long, 6-12 cm. across; rachis slightly rlexuous or only the upper 

 portion so; bract subtending the peduncle, subulato-linear, sharply pointed, 

 dilated and pauci-inciso-serrulate at the base, 5-10 mm. long; peduncles 

 spreading, stout-filiform, nearly strict, loosely branched into 1-4-pedicels, 

 with minute linear or subulate bracteole opposite to the pedicels; pedicels 

 filiform, attaining about 2 cm. long. Calyx 5-parted, herbaceous, virides- 

 cent, disparsed and ciliated with minute glandular hairs, persistent and 



