Observations on the Flora of Japan, 



Fasciculus I. 1901. 



By 

 T. Makino, 



Assidanl in the Botanical Tnsliluie, Science College, 

 Imperial University of Tokyo. 



Saxifraga (Uiptera) nipponica Maldno sp. nov. 



Rhizome cylinclrica], long-creeping, radicant, cpigaaous, loosely ramose, 

 glabroiip. Leaves tufted at the end of rhizome, erect, or ascending, flaccid, 

 long-petioled, orbicular or subreniform- orbicular, 2\-l cm. wide, cordate at 

 the base, very obscurely lobed and dentate with depressed ovato-deltoid 

 teeth on the margin, ciliated and disparsed with pilose hair?, palmately 

 veined; petiole about 4-16 cm. long, slender, pilose with patent hairs, 

 vaginate and ciliated at the base. Scape including the panicle much exceed- 

 ing leaves and about 30 cm. in length, pilose with spreading. hairs as is the 

 rachis, bearing a small rudimentary leaf. Panicle loose, broadly and 

 shortly pyramidal ; rachis more or less flexuous, with linear-subulate sharp- 

 tipped small bracts at bases of ]cd uncles ; peduncles spreading, filiform, 

 strict, loosely branched into a few pedicels, with very small linear bracteoles 

 at bases of pedicels ; })edicels filiform, glandular-hairy as is the peduncle. 

 Calyx 5-i»artite ; tube short, adherent to the base of the ovary, depressed 

 obconical, glandular-hairy ; sepals mere or less unequal in size, patent or 

 more or less reflexed, ovate-lanceolate, acutish, ciliated with glandular hairs, 

 herbaceous, 3-nerved, persistent. Petals 5, white, thin ; the lower 2 much 

 larger, unequal in size, pendulous, linear-lanceolate and more or less falcate, 

 gradually attenuated towards the sessile base, acuminate with a sharp tip, 

 entire, Avith veins running upwards, the larger one about 2 cm. long ; the 

 upper 3 patent, about 3 mm. long, ovate, apiculate, very shortly unguiculate, 

 entire, obscurely loose-nerved, slightly thicker and yellow in the lower por- 

 tion. Stamens 10, at first erect then patent; filament linear- filiform, at- 

 tenuated towards the base, longer than sepals and 4-5 mm. in length ; 

 anther minute, ovato-roundcd. Ovary broadly ovate, divided into 2 parts 

 above and attenuated to the styles, glabrous ; st}les 2, erect, narrow ; stigma 

 very slightly thicker, oblique inwards; ovules numerous, minute, oblong. 



Scixi/raga sarmentosa f. minor Savatier in linuma's Somoku-Dzusetsu, 



