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ribbed, light green shaded with pnrpurascent colour ; lobes a little unequal, 

 deltoid, acutish-obtuse, reflexed-patent, shorter than the tube. Corolla 

 pilose ; tube tubuloso-infundibuliform, slightly depressed, more or less con- 

 tracted at the basal portion, longitudinally veined, 3-ribbed on the upper 

 side, with 2 plaits on the lower side, yellow with many purple spots and 

 spotted strire internally, but purple externally, fuscous-purple towards the 

 throat ; limb ringent, obliquely 5-partite, much shorter than the tube, light 

 purple, lobes reflexed-patent, those of the upper lip more reflexed, orbicular, 

 rounded or sometimes subretuse at the apex, ciliated. Stamens 4, didy- 

 namous, included ; filament filiform, glabrous, yellow, minutely purpureo- 

 maculate ; anther divergent, with narrowly oblong cells and white pollen. 

 Ovary conico-ovate, glabrous, green, with deep green and thickish disk at 

 the base ; style filiform, glabrous, included ; stigma divergently 2-partite 

 with short lobes, the lower lobe much broader. Capsule elliptical. 



Nom. Jap. Akaya-dzi'Wd. 



Icon. Iwasaki's Honzo-Dzufu XVII. fol. 2 recto. 



Hab. Prov. Musashi : Tok3^o, Bot. Gard. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ., cult. 

 (Herb.! Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, 1878, May 2, 1879 ; T. Maldno ! May 

 4 and 15, 1896, Oct. 1, 1900, May 1901). 



This species which is cultivated for medicinal purpose in Japan, was 

 introduced formerly from China ; the «, lidea is very rarely foimd on 

 account of its difficulty of cultivation, while the /3. purpurea is commoner. 



It is perhaps a variety of Rehmannia glutinosa Libosch, which I will 

 call by a new name of R. glutinosa var. Maximowiczii, including the two 

 forms of a. lutea and h. purpurea. 



Aconitum volubile Koelle ; Willd. Sp. PI. II. p. 1237 ; Ait. Hort. 

 Kew. ed. 2, III. p. 323 ; Pers. Syn. PI. II. p. 83 ; Spreng, Syst. Veg. II. 

 p. 621 ; Poir. Encyc. Suppl. I. p. 11.5 ; Keichb. Uebers, Gatt. Aeon. p. 

 40, et Illustr. gen. Aeon. tab. XXV ; Ledeb. Fl. Roas. I. p. m, et Fl. 

 Alt. II. p. 281; Maxim. Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 26; Kegel Tent. Fl. Ussur. 

 p. 12. 



Aconitum ciliare a. oligotrichum DC. Syst. Veg. I. p. 378, et Prodr. 

 I. p. 61 ; Seringe Monogr. Aeon. p. 33. 



Aconitum villosum /?. Jiexuosum Keichb. Illustr. gen. Aeon. tab. 

 XXVII. 



Norn Jap. Ilana-hadziira. 



