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including the raceme, usually ramose above, but rarely simple aud oue- 

 racemiferous ; branches one to several, axillary, ascending and racemiferous. 

 Leaves succulent, oblong-spathulate, or lanceolate-spathulate, plane, manifestly 

 obtuse at the apex, quite ca3sious-glaucous ; cauline ones sparse, approximate, 

 patent or reflexed ; radical ones imbricately rosulate before anthesis, mostly 

 ever-sreen throughout the winter. Rosettes 5-10 cm. across. Eaceme erect, 

 densely flowered, cylindrical ; bracts ovate, acute or ficutisch, lower than the 

 flower, quite green. Flowers pedicellate, bi-bracteolate, the inferior ones 

 often long-pedicellate and several-bracteolate ; the bracteole linear-lanceolate, 

 or oblanceolate, tapering above. Sepals subulate-lanceolate, tapering above, 

 viridcscent. Petals patent, angustato-oblanceolate, acute, twice as long as 

 sepals, white. Stamens a little longer than the corolla ; filament filiform ; 

 anther yellow. Hypogynous scales minute, rectangular-spathulate, truncate 

 at the top. Ovaries upon a very slightly elevated recei)tacle, erect, oblong- 

 ovate, narrowed below, gradually attenuated into a short style above ; ovules 

 many, minute, cylindrical. Follicles erect, ovato-oblong, attenuated at both 

 ends, often rose-coloured. Seeds cylindrical-oblong, slightly enlarged above. 



Umbilicus malacopli yllus vel U. stamineus Miq. Frol. Fl. Jap. p. 89, 

 non DO. et Ledeb. 



Cotylendon malacopliylla Franch. et Sav. Enuni. Fl. Jap. I. p. 159. 

 non Pall. 



Cotylendon malacopliylla var. japonica Franch. et Sav. 1. c. II. p. 365. 



Sinqua, vulgo Ikingusa et Iivarenge Krempf. Amoen. Exot. p. 912. 



JIah. Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, Bot. Gard. Koishikawa, cultivated (Herb.! 

 Sc. Ooll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Oct. 15, 1880, Nov. 1888; T. Maklm\ Nov. 

 1893); Prov. Sagami : Itabashi near Odawara {T. JIakinol Nov. 1901). 



The leaves are manifestly obtuse and quite cjesious- glaucous without 

 admixture of other colour. The radical rosulate leaves mostly remain with- 

 out perishing during winter. From above-mentioned characters, this species 

 differs apparently from Cotyledon malacophylla Pall. The colour of leaves, 

 which give a peculiar appearance to this plant, is not recognizable upon 

 dried specimens, therefore this and C. malacophylla Pall., were frequenlly 

 confounded. 



Cotyledon (Umbilicus, Oro-stachys) malacophylla Pall. ; Willd. Sp. 

 PI. II. p. 756 ; Pers. Syn. PI. I. p. 510 ; Spreng. Syst. Veg. II. p. 438 ; 

 Maxim, in Mel. Biul. XI. p. 723 ; Korshins. in Act. Ilort. Petrop. XII. p. 



