emarginate teetli. Flowers laxly disposed, small, glabrous, shortly pedi- 

 cellate, 3-3i mm. in diameter. Calyx-tube obconical, ribbed longitudinally; 

 lobes 4, 2 larger than the other 2, patent in flower, deltoid, obtuse, 

 the vein obscure. Stamens 8, minute, shorter than the calyx- lobes ; 

 ■filament subulate ; anther rounded, yellow. Disk thickish, fleshy. Styles 2,. 

 apart, divergent ; stigma terminal. Ovules numerou?, oblong. Capsule 

 with persistent calyx and pedicel enlarging after anthesis, slightly compressed 

 laterally ; carpels campanulate after dehiscence. Seeds numerous, ellip- 

 tical-oblong, reddish- ferruginous, very minutely papillose on the whole surface. 

 Fl. A]>ril-May. 



Clirysosphnium tosaense Makino Notes on Jap. PI. XY. in But. Mag.^ 

 Tokyo, VI. J 892, p. 52. 



Nom. Jap. Taclii-nekonomeso. 



Hah. TosA : Nanokawa (7'. Mahino ! Nov. 1884, June 188.5 ; K. 

 Watcmahe\ May 7, 1885, April 7, 1S88), Mt. Torigata {T. 3Iahino\ 

 May 22, 1889), Mt. Kuishi in Tadzikawa-mura (T. Mahino \ May 6, 1893), 

 Tadzikawa {T. 31ahino\ April 1889, May 1893); Prov. Iyo : Mt. Shiroe- 

 goe in Onsen-gori {K. Olcudaira ! May 2, 1897). 



A southern variety ; it differs from the typical one by the more 

 luxuriant bracts, and innovations Avith minute scales instead of having^ 

 the normal leaves. 



A. Franchet, in his monograph, described the seed of Chryosplenium 

 JlagelHfermn Fr. Schmidt, as " semina ovalia, lucida, glaberrima," but it is 

 in truth minutely papillose in all Japanese ones examined by me, and 

 collected from various localities. 



Asarum (Hetrotropa) sakawanum Makino in Botan. Mag., Tokyo^ 

 IX. 1895, p. 260. 



Rhizome ascending or obliquely repent, terete, about 3-4 mm, thick, 

 with many abbreviated internodes and alternately arranged semi-annular 

 leaf-scars, simple or branched ; roots long, terete, thick, with rootlets towards 

 the extremities. Leaves persistent, 2 to 3 to a branch of the rhizome, erect 

 or ascending, long-petioled, broadly ovate or deltoid-ovate, shortly acuminate 

 with an acute tip, cordate or broadly auriculate with an open or close sinus 

 and round-obtuse or broadly rounded -ovate lobes, entire and minutely ciliated 

 on the margin, thickly herbaceous in texture, green and often shaded with 

 purple colour, albo-variegated between the midrib and margins, glabrous but 

 pubescent-pilose on veins and towards the margin, 6-15icm. long, 4-10 cm. 



