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24, 1879), Ozi (B. Yatahe and J. Matsumura ! herb. ibid. April 24, 

 1878), Chichibu (/?. Yatahe and J. Matsuimira ! herb. ibid. April 1878), 

 Near ITino in Chichibn {T. 3lakhio\ April ?,, 1895), Mt. Takao (Herb, 

 ibid. April 30, 1899), Mt. Mitake (Y. Yahel herb. ibid. May 1.5, 

 1900). 



This species is very closely allied to the Corean Viola alhida Palib, 

 Consp. Fl. Korefe I. p. 30, tab. 2, fig. 2. 



Viola (Nomimiuni) Miyabei Makino sp. nov. 



Viola phalacrocarpa var. major Maxim, ex K. IMiyabe. 



Viola phalacrocarpa var. pallida Yatabe, ex parte, in F^ot. Mag., 

 Tokyo, VI. (1892) p. 102. 



Acanlescent ; rhizome short, erect, sometimes thick, with stont roots. 

 Leaves few, long-petioled, ovate, or subdeltoid-ovate, obtuse, often slightly 

 attenuated above, cordate with an open sinns, depressed-crenate, mem- 

 branaceous, glabrous above, piloso - pubescent on the nerves beneath, 

 green, sometimes with })urple in the middle, 4-7^ cm. long, 2-1-4-1 cm. 

 broad ; veins very loose, arcuate ; petiole elongated, usually longer than 

 tlie blade, i)ilose, sometimes very narrowly winged above, 4-14 cm. long ; 

 stipules thinly membranaceous, snbulato-lanceolate to linear, sharply acumi- 

 nate, adnate to the petiole with the lower portion, loosely glanduloso- 

 denticulate, the free portion about 4-9 mm. long. Flowers large, 2-3 

 cm. across, rose-purplish : peduncle shorter than the leaves, few, sparsely 

 ])ilose ; bracts in the middle of the peduncle, opposite or subopposite, 

 linear, erect, 4-7 mm. long. Sepals lanceolate, acutish or subobtuse, 



thin, green, with 3 main nerves and loose veinlets, 8-11 mm. long; 

 the basal anricles glabrous, entire, depressed -semiorbicular, but ovato- 

 semiorbicular in those of the lateral 2 sepals. Petals obovate or broadly 

 obovate, emarginate or retuse or rounded at apex, shortly cuneately nar- 

 rowed below, about 15-20 mm. long, 8-14 mm. wide, the lateral ones 

 always bearded ; calcar shorter than the sepals, oblong-cylindrical, rounded 

 at the end, 5i-8 mm. long, 2-2i mm. broad. Connective-tip broadly 

 ovate, obtuse; anther-appendages linear-fiUform, obtuse, 4-51 mm. long. 

 Ovary ovate, glabrous ; style scarcely longer than the ovary, glabrous, 

 enlarged above, geniculate at the base ; stigma dilated into a deltoid and 

 snljbilobed face, the beak very short. 



Hah. Prov. Siiimotsuke : Nikko (Herb. ! Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, 

 May 1887) ; Prov. Isiiikari in Hokkaido : Omagari in Tsukisappu (7i. 



