ILOIÎA MONTANA rOimOS.E 22^ 



Maxdi. in Mél. Biol. XL p. 851 ; Palibin, Conspect. FI. Korejie, III. -p. 10 ; 

 FoEBES et Hemsl. Ind, FI. ftiu. TIT. p. 108 ; ]\TA'rsr:\r. et TTayvjw, Ennni. PI. 

 Formos. p. 430. 



Pohjgoiiatuia Maxlinoic'iczll Fii. Schmidt, Keis. Amur. p. 185, u. 449. 



Polygonatum officinale All. y. lihiriflorum MiQ. Prol. FI. Jap. p. 312. 



Hab, in licrbidis Taitoi), ad 4000 ped. ait., leg. U. Faurie, 

 1903, (No. 544). 



DisTEiB. Type : extends from western Europe through Russia, 

 Sihoria and ^Mongolia- to northern China and Japan. A^ariety : 

 through Japan to SaghaHen Mancliuria and nortliern Cliina. 



Paris Linn. 



Paris lancifolia Hayata, (PI. XXXIX.). in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XX. 

 p. 52. Rhizoma repens inultinodosum. Caiüis simplex circ. 20-50 

 cm. longus glaberrimus. Folia ad apicem caulis 7-8 verticiUata 

 sessilia lanceolata vel lanceolato-angusta acuminata circ. 12 cm. 

 longa 1 cm. lata 1-nervia, nervis superne impressis subtus promi- 

 nentibus. Flores ad apicem caulis inter folia verticiUata solitarii 

 longe pedunculati exserti, pedunculis 7 cm. longis erectis. Segmenta 

 perianthii distincta 5-mera 2-seriata, exteriora patentissima her- 

 bacea lanceolata acuminata 5-G cm. longa 7-8 mm. lata supra basin 

 leviter contracta, interiora filiformia 2J-o cm. longa. Stamina 8-10, 

 filamentis ovarium vix superantibus. Ovarium depresso-globosum 

 apice truncatum concavum marginibus prominentibus ad apices 

 carpellorum paullo cornutum, 1-loculare 5-placentiferum, stylo 

 5-fido, ramis recurvis. Baccie depresso-giobosse 12 mm. longao 15 

 mm. in diametro oligospermœ. 



IÏAB. Ganzan, in montibus Morrison, ad 9141 ped. alt., leg. S. 

 Nagasawa, Oct. 1905, (Xo. 093) ; in monte Morrison, ad 9000 ped. 

 alt., leg. T. Kawakami et U. Moei, Oct. 1900, (Xo. 1953). 



