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1890), TadzikaAva ( T. JlJaJdno ! May 1893) ; Prov. Hii^Aciii : Mt. Tisiikutja 

 {T.Maldnol April 5, 1894, May 1897, May 1900; C. Owator/! herb. ibid. 

 April 15, 1895); Prov. Ise : Bodaisen in Watarai-gori {Z. Uinevmra \). 



Viola (Nomimium) Maximowicziaiia Makino sp. nov: 



Viola Selldrhii foriaa major Maxim, in litt. 1888 ; Makino in Dot. 

 ]\Iag., Tokyo, II. p. 253. 



Viola serpens Yatabe in herb. Sc. Coll. Im[). Univ. Tokyo, et in 

 ]}ot. Mag., Tokyo, VI. p. 130, non Wall. 



Acaulescent, flaccid. Pvoots slender, with delicate rootlets. llhizome 

 erect, often elongate, in articulated with a few membranaceous scales (about 

 2-6 mm. in length) at the base. Leaves several, or sometimes many, 

 s[)reading from the top of the rhizome, elliptical or elliptical-ovate, but 

 ovato-rounded in the inferior ones, obtuse, cordate at the base, with the 

 connivent lobes when recent, crenato-serrate, thin, flaccid-herbaceous, 

 sparsely pilose with white hairs, darkish-green and often albo-variegated 

 along nerves above, often purpureo-violaceous beneath, 1-7 cm. long, 4-4§ 

 cm. wide ; veins alwut 3-6 on each side, loose, ascending, arcuate ; veinlets 

 loose and inconspicuous; petiole exalate, pilose with patent white hairs or 

 glabrous, shorter or longer than the blade ; stipules linear or subulato- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, membranaceous, adnate to the petiole with the 

 basal portion, minutely and laxly glanduloso-subciliated. Peduncles 

 slender, longer than the leaves, but shorter in those of the cleistogamous 

 flowers after the normal flowers, glabrous or pilosulate w'ith patent white 

 hairs, bracteate above the middle ; bracteoles 2, approximate or more or 

 less remote, linear, 2^-7 mm. long, glabrous or pilosulate. Flowers 

 white, about 10-15 mm. across. Sepals reflexed, oblong-lanceolate or 

 ovato-oblong, acute or obtuse, 3-5 nun. long, green, glabrous, or pilose with 

 white hairs dorsally, the lateral 2 smaller, the main nerves usually 3 ; the 

 basal auricles very short, depressed- or truncato-semiorbicular, or some of 

 them subdeltoid. Petals narrowly oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, a little 

 attenuated below, obtuse, 7-10 mm. long, the lateral ones slightly bearded, 

 the lower one shorter concave and violet-striped ; calcar short, broadly 

 elliptical, a little longer than the sepals. Connective-tip ovate ; append- 

 ages falcate, about 2-2-1 nun. long. Ovary ovate, glabrous ; style naiTOw, 

 enlarged above ; stigma dilated into broadly orbicular or subdeltoid face? 

 the beak minute ami short. Capsule elliptical, obtuse or acute, glabrous, 

 4-6 nun. long. Seeds obovuid-globose, smooth. Fl. April-May. 



