238 BOTANICAL MAQAZTNE. [Vol. xviii, 



Biennial ? attaining about 22 cm. long, divided at the base ; tap-root 

 slender, perpendicular, branched. Stem simple, slender, puberulent, the 

 lower decumbent and destitute of leaves but with old petioles. Leaves 

 sparse, approximate, bnt much loosely disporsed above, petiolate, pinnati- 

 parted, attaining about 2 cm. long including the petiole ; leaflets usually 5, 

 elliptical or elliptical-oblong, acute on both ends, entire, glabrous, subcarnose, 

 the lateral leaflets patent, a little remote, subfalcate, about equal to the 

 odd one in size ; petiole longer than the blade, somewhat dilated towards 

 the base. Raceme many-flowered, erect ; rachis puberulent as is the pedicel. 

 Flower white, about 8 mm. across ; pedicels erect-patent, 3-5 cm. long in 

 flower. Sepals oval or oval-elliptical, rounded-obtuse at apex, concave, 

 herbaceous, glabrous, viridescent, bnt scarious on margin, 3-nerved, with a 

 few and loosely subreticulated veinlets, 2-3 mm. long, deciduous. Petals 

 nearly twice as long as sepals, orbicular or oval, rounded or trunca to-rounded 

 at apex, shortly unguiculate, loosely nervate, 3J-4J mm. long. Stamens 

 often slightly shorter than sepals ; filament subulato-filiform ; anther ellip- 

 tical, with yellow pollen. Ovary fusiform, viridescent, very minutely and 

 loosely puberulent on both margins ; valve 1-nerved and with loosely reticu- 

 lated veinlets ; stigma sessile (style none), thickish, concave, sub-4-lobed, 

 minutely pubescent. Ovules 2 in each loculament, pendulous from the upper 

 portion of the placentas, with a distinct and curved funicule. Silicle (im- 

 mature) fusiform, acute at both ends, 3 mm. long. 



Norn. Jap. Kardkusa-nadzuna (nov.). 



Bab. Prov. Ise : Summit of Mt. Oike in Inabe-gori (31. Kaivasaki \ 

 Aug. 9, 1904). 



New to the Flora of Japan, very rare. In my specimens, hairs on 

 the stem, on the rachis of raceme, and on the pedicels are simple, not 

 forked ; the stigma is sessile having no style. In Japan, the occurrence of 

 this plant, which was hitherto confined to Europe, is highly interesting. 



(To be continued.) 



