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Suo : Oucbi-mura {D. Nikai ! Herb. 1. c. May 28, 1892) ; Prov. Idzu : 

 Yosbibama {S. Obuhol Herb. ]. c. June 2, 1883), Mt. Amagi (S. Oktcbol 

 Herb. 1. c. June 9, 1883) ; Prov. Sagami : Hakone (Herb. ! 1. c. Aug. 28, 

 1880, Aug. 16, 1883), Mt. Oyama (.S'. Matsuda\ Herb. I c. May 17, 1900); 

 Prov. Kaga : Lit. Haku-san {E. Yotahe and Z. 31alsumura ! Herb. 1, c. 

 Aug. G, 1881) ; Prov. Shinano : Mt. Togakusbi {R. Yatnbe and Z. 3Iatsu- 

 mura ! Herb. 1. c. July 10, 1884) ; Prov. Shimotsuke : Nikko (Herb. ! k c. ; 

 T. llaJdno ! June 30, 1900) ; Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, Bot. Gard. Koishikawa, 

 cult. (Herb.! I.e. May 30, 1879, May 29, 1880; T. MakinoY); Hokkaido 

 {L. Boehmer ! Herb. 1. c.) ; Prov. Ishikari : Sapporo (It. Yatabe ! Herb. 1. c. 

 July 30, 1878, Aug. 1878 ; Y. TohubitcU ! Herb. 1. c. Sept. 8, 1892). 



A large and tall climber, the main stem attaining 20 cm. or more in 

 diameter with age. 



Shortia rotundifolia (Maxim.) Maldno in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, IX. p. 

 327, X. p. 221, et XII. p. 230. 



Khizome elongate, erect or ascending, about 4-10 cm. long, woody, 

 rooting below. Leaves tufted on the summit of the rhizome, long petioled, or- 

 bicular or ovato-orbicular, truncato-retuse at the apex with a slight-depression 

 in centre, rounded and shortly decurrent to the petiole at the base, apiculately 

 sinuato-dentate, chartaceo-membranaceous, glabrous ; midrib and veins slender, 

 elevated above, the veins 3-5 on each side ; petiole slender, longer than the 

 blade, attaining about 8 cm. in length. Scape erect, slender, uniflorous, at- 

 taining about 12i cm. in height, glabrous, remotely about 4-o-bracteate, fur- 

 nished with a few membranaceous subulate acuminate scales at the base ; 

 bract erect, subulate-lanceolate, tapering above, entire, membranaceous, Q-Q\ 

 long, the uppermost one approximate to the calyx. Sepals .5, slightly unequal 

 in length and width, imbricated, erect-patent, deltoid-ovate and acutish or 

 obtuse in the outer one, but oblong and emarginate in the inner ones, entire, 

 but minutely suberose at apex in the inner ones, membranaceous, glabrous, 

 7-8 mm. long in fruit, longitudinally 9-10-nerved, the midrib slightly prominent 

 externally. Corolla Stamen Capsule globose, with a per- 

 sistent style, glabrous, 4i nmi. long, dehiscing into 3 thinly coriaceous carpels ; 

 placentas thick, central. Seeds minute, numerous, ferruginous, obovato- 

 cylindrical, lesser than 1 ram. in length ; testa very minutely reticulated. 



ScMzocodon rotundifoHics Maxim, in Mel. Biol. XII. p. 743 ; Forbes 

 «t Hemsk in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXVI. p. 34. 



