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4| cm. in length ; stipules shorter than the petiole, erect, free, but the 

 lower ones sometimes adnate at the base, linear-lanceolate, or broady linear, 

 or linear, acuminate, fimbriato-laciniate with linear teeth, subtilely ciliated, 

 thin, green, 6-20 mm. long. Peduncles axillary, gracile, 6-8 cm. long, 

 glabrous, bracteate above the middle, bracteoles 2, opposite or subopposite, 

 linear, acuminate, puberulent, 6-7 mm. long. Flowers white or very light 

 cterulescent, 10-15 mm. across. Sepals Hnear or linear-lanceolate, narrowly 

 acuminate, very laxly and minutely hairy dorsally, light green, 6-10| mm. 

 long, the lower two a little larger and 3-nerved, the others one or sub- 

 trinerved ; basal auricles very short, truncato-rounded or retuso-truncate in 

 the lower two sepals, but others obtuse. Petals obovato-oblong, narrowed 

 below, rounded at the apex ; the upper ones about 10-13 mm. long, 3|-6 

 mm. wide, reflexed and horizontal; the lateral ones slightly longer than 

 the upper ones, bearded, about 11-14 mm. long, 4-6^ mm. wide; the lower 

 one cuneato-obovate, retuse or emarginate, violet-striped, about 8-9 mm. 

 long, 5J-6 mm. wide ; calcar very short, ovato-semiorbicular, veiy obtuse, 

 2-3 mm. long. Connective-tip ovato-deltoid ; appendages short, oblong- 

 linear, or ova to-linear, obtuse. Ovary conical, glabrous ; style longer than 

 the ovary, somewhat geniculate at the base, gradually a little enlarged 

 above ; stigma obovate, convex, shortly papillose on margin, the beak very 

 short and truncate at the end. 



Hah. Prov. Musashi : Mt. Kobotoke-toge {T. Makino ! May 18, 1902). 



This species is common in the northern Japan. 



Iris (Apogon) minuta Franch. et. Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. II. pp. 42, 

 521 ; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. X. p. 715; Baker Handb. Irid. p. 2. 



Small, densely tufted ; rhizome repent and then ascending, branched, 

 slender, hard, covered with membranaceous scales ; roots numerous, fibrous, 

 filiform, numerously ramose, hard. Flowers and leaves in different innova- 

 tions, approximate or more or less remote. Leaves few to the rhizome- 

 branch, with a few sheathing leaves at the base, the lower ones much 

 smaller and manifestly vaginate and soon perishing, the uppermost one 

 normally growing and angustato-ensiform, subcalloso-margined, gradually 

 narrowed below, vaginate at the base, 2-8 mm. broad, attaining 45 cm. in 

 length, but much shorter in flower and lower or higher than flowers, 

 yellowish darkish-green ; midrib delicate, subtilely scabrous in flower ; veins 

 1-2 on each side. Scape 1-headed, erect, short, about 5-10 mm. long, 



