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OBSERVATIONS ON THE FLORA OF JAPAN. 



Leaves deltoid. Labellum {Fig. I. copied from Blume' s 

 original plate.) not cleft, linear-lanceolate, 3-nerved towards the 

 base, angustateiy elongato-linear with involute margin and 1-nerv- 

 ed above, cordato-sagittate and clasping the column at the base. 



Nom. Jap. O-futabaran (T. Makino). 



Hab. Japan (after Blume). 



Not seen. 



Listera Savatieri Maxim, ined. ex Komar. Fl. Manshur. 

 I. (1901) p. 526. 



Listera Eschscholtziana Maxim. Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 269, 

 ex Komar. !. c. ; Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, VII. p. 69, non Chamisso. 

 Listera japonica Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. II. p. 37, non 

 Blume, fide Komar. 



Whole plant 11-24 cm. in height. Rhizome filiform, long, creeping, 

 subterranean, root-like, usually furnished with one or few new plants on 

 it in a distance ; roots loosely pauci-pluri-fasciculate at nodes near the 

 stem, filiform, often with root-hairs. Stem erect, or ascending, slender, 

 gracile, l-6i cm. long and glabrous below the leaves, but 7|-20i cm. long 

 (including the raceme) and pubescent with spreading glandular hairs above 

 the leaves, provided with 2 thinly membranaceous adpressed sheaths at the 

 base. Leaves 2, oppositely approximate (the superior one usually some- 

 what smaller), patent, situated in the lower portion of the stem, elliptico- 



ovate to orbiculato-ovate, or sub- 

 deltoid-ovate, obtuse or acutish at 

 the apex, broadly truncate and 

 sometimes very shallowly subcordate 

 below, triangularly and very slightly 

 produced at the sessile base, entire 

 and crispulate on margin, mem- 

 branaceous, glabrous, green, often 

 albescent along the main nerves on 

 the upper surface, paler beneath, 

 12-38 mm. long, 11-29 mm. broad ; 

 main nerves 3 and moreover with 1 

 or sometimes 2 nerves between them 

 and 1 nerve in their outsides, the 

 outer one with an external branch ; 



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