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tab. IX. figg. 3-8 (1876) ; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. IT. p. 269 ; 

 Huth in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. XVI. p. 299. 



? Eranikis Keiskei Franch. et Sav. 1. c. p. 269 ; Huth I. c. p. 297. 



? Hdleboroides alhiflovum Huth. 



A small perennial herb, about 8-10 cm. high in flower, but attaining 

 about 18cm. in height in fruit. Corm globose, solid, brown externally, 

 attaining 2cm. in diameter, provided with delicate fibrous roots below, and 

 with scapes and radical leaves above. Leaves all radical, green, often 

 slightly purpurascent on margin and paler on veins as are the involucral 

 bracts in flower, 1-6 to a rhizome, shorter than the scape, long-petiolate, 

 glabrous, flaccid, deeply 3-parted, orbiculato-reniform and somewhat 5- 

 angulate in outline, attaining about 7 cm. in length and in width in fruit, 

 but smaller in flowering time ; each lobe pectinately pinnati- parted into 

 lato-linear acutish segments ; the midlobe ovate and cuneate at the base ; 

 lateral lobes again deeply 2-parted, sometimes sul>-3-parted, very broadly 

 cuneate at the base. Scapes 1-6 to a rhizome, erect or ascending, slender, 

 glabrous, flaccid ; involucral bracts 2, opposite, sessile, patent, foliaceous, 

 glabrous, deeply 3-parted, the midlobe simple and lato-linear or pauci- 

 laciniate, the lateral lobes pauci-laciniate at the base or laciniato-pinnate 

 into oblong-linear segments. Flower solitary, pedicellate, erect or nearly 

 so, white, about 16-17 mm. across; pedicel puberulent, shorter or longer 

 than the flower. Sepals 5, petaioid, nearly patent, membranaceous, veined, 

 elliptical-ovate, uneven-margined, deciduous, 10-12 mm. long, 7 mm. broad. 

 Petals 5-8, nectariform, much shorter than sepals, 4 mm. long, stipitate, 

 furcate into erect-patent spathulate lobes resembling the form of Y ^o' 

 nature, white but yellow at the upper end, secreting honey juice, from the 

 cavity in the axil, deciduous. Stamens 10-20, erect-patent, shorter than 

 sepals, slightly unequal in length, 6-7mm. long; filaments filiform, gla- 

 brous ; anther oval-ovate, rounded-obtuse at the apex, purpurascent, 2- 

 celled, introrse, with white pollen, the anther-wall darkish-cferulescent after 

 bursting. Ovaries 2-5, erect, very shortly stipitate, angustato-oblong, 

 compressed, greenish, nearly glabrous, about 5ram. long including the style, 

 6-8-ovuled ; ovules globoso-obovoid ; style terminal, erect, shorter than the 

 ovary, compressed, broad ; stigma terminal, narrowly lunate along the 

 apical margin of the style. Follicles 2-5, shortly stipitate, patent, oblong, 

 compressed, about 10 mm. long, 5 mm. broad, beaked with a persistent 

 small style ; carpel thinly coriaceous, glabrous, veins obliquely transverse. 

 Seed globose, yellowish-brown, echinulato-scaberulose, about 4 mm. across. 

 Flowers in March-April. 



