ed. 2, VIII. fol. 11, recto. 



Nom. Jap. Hant-yuhinosliita (Y. liauma). 



Hab. Prov. Shinano : Mt. Togakushi (A". ]Vcdanuhe\ June 10, 1894). 



A rare species ; it ditfcrs from S. sannentosa, Linn, fil., by the esto- 

 loniferous habit and the ramose and long repent rhizome. 



Saxifraga (Diptera) madida Maldno Notes on Jap. PI. XV. in Bot. 

 Mag., Tokyo, VI. 1892, p. 52. 



Khizome very short, erect or oblique, rooting. Leaves tufted, flaccid, 

 reniform or reniform-orbicular, cordate at the bise, 5-161 cm. across, thin 

 when dried, scattered with pilose hairs on the upper surface and ciliated on 

 the margin, deeply divided into 7 to sub-11 broad-ovate to oblong-ovate lobes 

 with obtuse sinuses ; lobes paucilobulate ; lobules incisely dentate with ovato- 

 deltoid and mucronate teeth ; veins palmate ; petiole slender, 6-25 cm. long, 

 villose-pilose with spreading hairs, vaginate and ciliated with long rufous-hairs 

 at the base. iScape erect, pilose, usually bearing 1-3 small rudimentary 

 ciliated leaves ; panicle loose, narrowly pyramidal ; rachis slender, more or 

 less flexuous, furnished witli small linear bracts fimbriato-ciliated below, 

 glanduhir-hairy as are the peduncles and pedicels, which are filiform and 

 bear linear-subulate bracteoles ; the peduncles usually secund. Calyx 5- 

 partite, the tube adherent to the base of ovary ; sepals patent or reflexed, 

 more or less unequal in size, oblong-lanceolate or ovato-lanceolate, obtuse or 

 acute, entire, ciliated and disparse with glandular hairs, 3 -nerved. Petals 

 5, white, thin ; the lower 2 much larger, pendulous, equal in size, narrowly 

 spathulate-lanceolate, acuminate, gradually narrowed towards the base and 

 at length forming a filiform unguis, entire, about 2-2^ cm, long, 2^-4i mm. 

 broad, with a few loosely arranged nerves which run upwards ; the upper 

 3 patent, about 4 mm. long, ovate, acutish or obtuse, distinctly unguiculate, 

 with a few yellow spots, loosely few-nerved. Stamens 10, spreading, longer 

 than the sepals ; filament filiform, acute at the apex, gradually narrowed 

 below ; anther ovato-rounded, orange-coloured. Ovary broadly ovate, shortly 

 divided into 2 above and gradually attenuated to the styles, yellowish green, 

 with a yellow disk- shaped nectar placed across on its upper surface ; styles 

 2, slender, beaklike ; stigma thicker ; ovules numerous, minute, oblong. 

 Capsule with persistent sepals, styles, withering petals, and filaments, ronnded- 

 ovate, inflated, 2-divided above ; carpel thin ; seeds numerous, subcylindrical- 

 oblong, minutely papillose, brown. 



Saxifraga cortusicfolia /9. madida Maxim, in Mel. biol. VIII. p. 600 . 



