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base 1-3-arignlato-deutate on each side or subentire, 6-11 mm. long, 



G-12mra. broad; petiole shorter or sometimes longer than the blade, 

 1-17 mm. long, thinly ciliated ; cauline leaves 2-3, remotely placed, sessile, 

 semi-am plexicaul or amplexicaul, elliptical or ovato-elliptical, obtuse, one- 

 several-denticulate on each side, 8-12 mm. long, 7-9 mm. wide. Stem 

 erect, gracile, pubescent with bi-furcate and simple hairs, purpurascent 

 below when recent. Raceme sub-nutant, several - subnumerous-flowered ; 

 rachis minutely puberulent below; pedicel glabrous, shorter than the flower. 

 Flower white, 8-10 mm. across. Sepals oblong or elliptical, obtuse, 

 glabrous, yellowish viridescent, loosely and delicately anastomosing nerved, 

 nearly 3 mm. long, the lateral ones much concave. Petals exserted, 

 patent and then reflexed above, narrowly oblong, retuso-emarginate, cuneate 

 at the base, about 5 J mm. long. Stamens longer than sepals; filament 

 snbulato-filiform, glabrous; anther linear-ovate, 1mm. long. Pistil shorter 

 than stamens ; ovary linear, terete, glabrous, about 2 mm. long ; style very 

 short, erect ; stigma convex-truncate, shallowly 2-lobed. Silique linear, 

 about 18 mm. long, glabrous, with a very short persistent style and a 

 pedicel about 7mm. long; valves membranaceo-subcoriaceous, sub-3-nerved 

 Seeds in one row, ellipsoid or oblong, slightly winged on margin, li-2mm. 

 long. 



Hab. Prov. Shimotsuke : Nikko, cultivated by B. Ioki from Mt. Twate 

 in the province of Bikuchu, collected by K. Jo (T. MaJcinol 1902, fruit, 

 May 1, 1904, flower). 



Acer Miyabei Maxim, in Mel. Biol. XTT. p. 725 (1888); Sargent 

 For. Fl. Jap. p. 29, tab. 9 ; Pax Acerac. in Engler's Pflanzenreich, TV. 

 163, p. 53. 



Hab. Hokkaido [Yezo] (K. Miyabei Y. TohubucU\ H. Yabe\ J. 

 Veiich !) ; Prov. Bikuchu in Honsiu : Goshd-mura in Iwate-gori, spont. 

 (G. Yamadal no. 110, July 12, 1903). 



It is interest that this species appeared in Honsiu, because, besides 

 Hokkaido (Yezo), the other locality of the species was hitherto unknown to 

 us; in Honsiu it was discovered and collected by Prof. Gentaro Yamada, 

 who kindly sent me with the specimen. 



Acer pictum Thunb. var. dissectum Wesmrel subvar. sub- 

 trifidum Makino nov. 



A small tree. Leaves long-petiolate, deeply palmato-5-7-parted, 



usually with a widely open sinus or truncate sometimes cuneato-truneate 



