lobe. Stamens 5, opposite with petals and closely placed before thera, 

 shorter than the calyx-lobes ; anther broadly corda to-rotund ; filament very 

 shortly subulate. Dissk thickish, flat on surface. Style short, erect, 

 shortly attenuated above ; stigmas 2, approximately placed, thick, depressed, 

 oblong-semiorbicular, obtuse-edged, very obscurely bilobed. Ovary 1-celled ; 

 ovules minute, rather many. 



Hah. Prov, Wakasa : Near Kumagawa {K. Tsuzi ! April 10, 1901). 



Kare species; this differs from 3Iitella japonica W\(\. ( = 31. longiscapa 

 Makino) by its smaller and denser flowers, 3-fid petals, seniiglabrous leaves* 

 glabrous petiole, sterile bracts upon the scape, etc. 



Potentilla (Herbaceie, Multicipites, Terminales, Ternatte, Frigidio, Nivea3) 

 Matsuokana Makino sp. nov. 



Perennial, attaining about 20 cm. in height. Rhizome erect, or 

 ascending, narrow, hard, rooting below, covered with old petioles and old 

 rufo-ferruginous ample stipules. Leaves ternate, adpressed-niveo-tomentose 

 beneath, adpressed-sericeo-pubescent above. Radical leaves tufted, erect- 

 patent, petioled, ternate, about 13-24 mm. long, 15-30 cm. broad; midrib 

 prominent beneath ; lateral veins delicate, flabellato-pinnate, impressed 

 above as is the midrib ; leaflets deeply serrate with obtuse or acutish ovate 

 teeth, but entire towards the l)asp, rounded-obtuse at the apex ; the termi- 

 nal leaflet shortly petiolulate, rounded to elliptical, attaining about 18 mm. 

 long, 14 mm. broad, truncato-cuneate to broadly cuneate at the base ; 

 lateral leaflets sessile, somewhat smaller, rounded to ovato-elliptical, ob- 

 liquely cuneate at the base ; petiole longer than the blade, attaining about 

 4 cm. long, slender, adpressed-white-tomentose : stipules often ample, subulato- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, entire, adnate about one-half below, membranaceous, 

 thinly tomentose above, minutely glanduloso-puberulent under lens, attain- 

 ing about 17 mm. long. Cauline leaves smaller, shortly petioled ; stipules 

 lanceolate or subulato-lanceolate, often longer than the petiole and adnate 

 to it with the lower portion. Flowering stems erect, few to several, much 

 exceeding the radical leaves in height, slender, adpressed-white-tomentose, 

 about 1-5- flowered, furnished with 2 leaves below; bracts few, leaf-like, 

 reduced in size in the superior ones, ternate or simple, very shortly petioled, 

 deeply pauci-serrate above, adpressed-white-tomentose beneath, adpressed- 

 pubescent above, the stipules ovato-lanceolate, acute-acuminate, longer than 

 the petiole, adnate below ; pedicels slender, l\-~)l era. long, erect, adpressed- 



