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10-13 mm. long, sessile ; fibrous roots short, not many. Stem erect, slender, 

 leafy, with cataphylls at the base. Leaves erect, 2 or 3, laxly placed, 

 broadly linear, acuminate, sometimes acute in the lower one, membrana- 

 ceous, even-sided, glabrous, the lower one usually sheathing at base 

 the upper ones without sheaths and embracing the stem with its sessile 

 base, the uppermost one reduced in size, the main lateral veins 1-2 on 

 each side, the largest one about 10 cm. long, li cm. broad. Raceme 

 2-7 cm. long, loosely and secundly 2-8-flowered ; rachis gracile, glabrous ; 

 bracts linear or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, entire, membranaceous, often 

 obtuse at the base, longer than the ovary, the largest one about 3J cm. 

 long, 6 mm. broad. Perianth ovato-lanceolate, entire, membranaceous, 

 with 3 main nerves, violet. Outer perianth : the upper one erect, obtuse, 

 scarcely shorter than the lateral ones; the lateral ones muchdeflexed dorsally, 

 obtuse, oblique in form, 9-11 mm. long, 4-4i mm. wide. Inner perianth 

 directed forwards, shorter than the outer perianth, acutish, 7-9 mm. long, 

 4-4i mm. broad. Labellum sessile, patent, horizontal, broadly orbiculate, 

 widely truncate at the base, shortly trilobed with nearly equal rounded 

 lobes and right-angled sinuses, emarginate at the midlobe, membranaceous, 

 usually crenulato-denticulate on the margin, radiately veined, 10-13 mm. 

 long, 12-15 mm. wide, violet, spotted deep purple at the base; calcar a little 

 longer than the ovary, horizontal, narrowly cylindrical, obtuse-tipped, scarcely 

 arcuate, glabrous. Gynostemium erect, 3-3i mm. long, connected to the 

 calcar below, subretuso-rounded at top ; anther semiorbiculate. Ovary 

 cylindrical, 10-14 mm. long including the pedicel. 



Orcliis 3Iorio ? Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XIV. (1900) p. 1S4. 

 non Linn. 



Bab. Prov. Shinano : Mt. Togakushi (E. Yatabe and J. Mcdsu- 

 mura ! herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, July 12, 1884 ; S. Ikeno ! July 

 20, 1892); Prov. Shimotsuke: Mt. Nyoho {K. Jo and B. Iold\ July 1900; 

 T. Mcildno ! Sept. 7, 1901). 



An allied species to Orchis Morio Linn, having beautiful flowers. I 

 have named it in honours of Dr. Kazuma Jo and Mr. Buusai loki. 



Anemone narcissifiora Linn, shikokiana Makino var. nov. 



Perennial, attaining about 27 cm. in height. Leaves tufted, long- 

 petiolate, orbicular-reniforni in outline, cordate at b;ise, 4-8 cm. long 

 4-|-9 cm. wide, trisected, herbaceous, not thick, pubescent along the nerves 



