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than the anther. Style long, filiform ; style-'branches suberect, one-half as 

 long as the sepals, subsagittato-truncate at the base, linear-rectangular, about 

 3 mm. wide, thin, in centre with 2 close narrow and longitudinal lamellfe 

 which are becoming into the crest-lobes above ; crest-lobes erect, linear- 

 lanceolate, obtuse or acute, thin, 4-8 mm. long ; stigma short, semiorbicular. 

 Ovary oblong, subtrigonous, glabrous, stipitate, about 4^ mm. long ; stipe 

 7-9 mm. long. Capsule globose, about 7 mm. across. Fl. April. 



Hab. Prov, Iyo in Isl. Shikoku : Koshiore-yama (K. OJaidaira ! x\pril 

 4, 1897, April 16, 1899) ; Prov. Chikuzen in Isl. Kiusiu : Wakasugi-yama 

 in Kasuya-gori {K. Nagano ! ]\Iay 1897). 



This is found growing wild in the northern parts of Isl. Shikoku and 

 Kiusiu, and it is also distributed over Corea and Northern China. 



Iris (Apogon) albopurpurea Baker in Curtis's But. Mag. (189G) tab. 

 7511 ; Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XIV. (1900) pp. GO, Gl. 



a. Bakeri Makino 1. c. p. 61. 



Flower white ; sepals maculate with cteruleo-violet. 



Nom. Jap. Washinoo. 



Hah. Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, cult. {T. Maldnol May lcS99). 



Not common. 



Jap. Murasame is a form of this variety, and the sepals are less 

 ca3ruleoviolet-maculate. 



/?. genuina Makino 1. c. 



Flower entirely casruleo-violet. 



Nom. Jap. Kaldtsuhata. 



Icon. linuma's Somoku-Dzusetsu II. no. 4. 



Hah. Prov. Musashi: Tokyo, cult. {T. 3Iahino\ May 1896, May 1899), 

 Bot. Gard. Koishikawa in Tokyo, cult. (Herb. ! Sc. Coll. luip, Univ. Tokyo 

 April 30, May 11, 1880), Sambozi-ike, subspont. {T. JIaJdnol May 20, 

 1900). 



A common and typical form, 



y. alba Makino 1. c. 



Flower white, immaculate. 



Hah. Japan, cult. 



Very rare. 



The common form of this species has violet flower.^, and it is the 

 typical one (/?. genuina Makino), bearing the common name of Kahitsu- 



