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below to a petiole, usually argutely 2-6-dentate above, attaining 22 mm. 

 in length ; cauline ones 4-6, sessile, ovato-oblong to narrowly oblong, acute, 

 subpectinato-dentate with argute subulate teeth, attaining about 2 cm. long. 

 Stem erect, pubescent. Kaceme 12-29-flowered ; rachis and pedict^ls 

 glabrous. Flower about 9 ram. across, white. Sepals glabrous, oblong, 

 obtuse and minutely pauci-suberose at the apex, green, but pale and mem- 

 branaceous on the margin, with 3 veins which are connected at the end, 

 about 3i mm. long. Petals nearly twice the length of the sepal, ellip- 

 tical, rounded-subretuse, shortly clawed. Stamens shorter than sepals ; 

 filament subulate, dilated towards the base, glabrous ; anther elliptical. 

 Ovary oblong, glabrous, about 12-ovuled ; style shorter than the ovary ; stigma 

 sub-bilobed. Silicle linear-oblong, often slightly curved, acute at the uppi^r 

 end, compressed, glabrous, 5-8 mm. long, the lower ones shorter than the 

 gracile erect-patent pedicels, the style short, gracile, with a shortly bifid 

 stigma. Seeds several, elliptical, beaked at the top. 



Nom. Jap. Miyama-nadzuna (K. Tanaka). 



Hah. Prov. Shinano : Mt. Togakushi {Kdiclii Tanaka ! 1901), Mt. 

 Yatsugadake {K. Tanaka ! Aug. 1902). 



Probably a variety of the preceding. 



Draba (Leucodraba) nipponica Makino, sp. nov. 



Csespitose, attaining 7 cm. in height in fruit. Caudex branched, 

 finely and densely rooting, the branches short and ascending. Stems lax, 

 erect, gracile, simple, glabrous. Leaves thinly pubescent with stellate ami 

 simple hairs and then subglabrate, ciliate ; rosulate ones dense, erect- 

 patent, linear-spaphulate, narrowly attenuated below to a petiole, acute 

 or acutish, argutely 2-4- or 5-dentate above, attaining about 1§ cm. in 

 length ; cauline ones oblong or oblong-lanceolate, laxly pectinately dentate 

 with erect-patent linear-subulate argute teeth, attaining about 1 cm. long, 

 the uppermost one sometimes linear and entire. Kaceme 7-20-flowered, 

 longer or shorter than the stem ; rachis gracile, glabrous ; pedicels gracile, 

 erect-patent, glabrous. Flower about 7 mm. across, white. Sepals small, 

 elliptical, subtruncate or emarginate, thin, glabrous, 2 mm. long, with delicate 

 free 3 veins. Petals 2^ as long as the sepals, 5 mm. long, elliptical, 

 emarginate, shortly cuneate to a short claw. Stamens longer than the 

 sepals ; filament subulate, dilated towards the base ; anther small, oblong- 

 elliptical. Ovary narrowly oblong, glabrous ; style short, stout ; stigma 



