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the blade, In-oad, S^lcape nsnally 1, erect, terete, slender, exceeding the 

 leaves in height, green, very minutely glandular, 9-1:") cm. long in flower. 

 Umhel 3-] 5-flo\vered ; pedicel narrow, very minutely glandular, 8-12 mm. 

 long, hut attaining about IG mm. in length in fruit, the outer ones erect- 

 paten t or patulous ; bracts much shorter than the pediceles, linear, very 

 minutely glandular. Flowers 22-30 mm. across, purple. Calyx cam- 

 jianulate, deeply 5-parted, green and often purplish above, very minutely 

 glandular and glanduloso-ciliated, about 31-6 mm. long ; lobes erect, lan- 

 ceolate, obtuse, with 3 main nerves. Corolla hypocrateriform ; limb 

 deejily 5-parted with closed sinuses, membranaceous, glabrous ; lobes 

 cuneate-obovate, 2-parted with an acuminate sinus, 10-14 mm. long, 8-11 

 mm. wide, the veins delicate and longitudinal ; lobules oblong, somewhat 

 oblique in form, obtuse, often scarcely crenulato-denticulate aljove ; the 

 throat greenish-yellow then soon becoming orange-yellow, white towards 

 the outer border, radiately nerved, very minutely glandular ; tube cylindric- 

 al, shorter than the limb, 5-8 mm. long, slightly enlarged and very 

 minutely glandular above, very light purple. Stamens in the upper or 

 middle portion of the corolla-tube ; anther oblong, with a very short 

 filament. Style erect, gracile, glabrous, long or short, the long one 



about 6-7 mm. long, the short one about 2imm. long; stigma capitate; 

 ovary somewhat depressed-globose, glabrous. Capsule oval-globose, 4^-5 

 mm. long, scarcely exceeding tiie })ersistent calyx, the carpel thin, but 

 thicker and harder above, dehiscing into 7-9 deltoid lobes at the top. 

 Seeds numerous, li nun. long, compressed, augulate, brown. 



Hah. Prov. Mutsu : Mt. Iwaki {Tomotaro Iivcdmival herb. Sc. Coll. 

 Imp. Univ. Tokyo, July 24, 1880); Prov. Iwasuiko : Mt. lide-san (K. 

 Nemotol Aug. 24, 1895). 



I obtained the favour of examining the living specimens from Dr. 

 Kazuma Jo, which was collected on Mt. Iwaki by Dr. Tomosaburo 

 Kinoshita. 



Primula nipponica Yatabe in Bot. ]\[ag., Tokyo, IV. (1890) no. 

 44, p. 3, tab. 13, et Iconogr. Fl. Jap. I. no. 1. (1891)]). 35, tab. 13; 

 Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XIII. (1899) p. 82. 



Primula cuneifolia Franch. in Bull, de la soc. philomath, de Paris, 

 8 mai 1886, p. 5, et 14 avril 1888, p. 10, non Ledeb. 



Primula cuneifolki Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XI. (1897) p. 112, 

 ex parte, non Ledeb. 



