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loosely anastomosing above ; lobes erect, short, deltoid or ovato-deltoid, 

 obtuse, ciliated with crisped hairs. Petals 5 ; limb patent, 10 mm. in 

 length and in width, obovato-cuneate, 4-fid, the interior lobes fimbriate 

 with about 3-4 linear lacina?, the exterior lobes subulato-linear, acuminate, 

 shorter than the interior lobes, 3 mm. long ; scales 2 to each petal, 

 semiorbicular-ovate or emarginate ; unguis spathulato-linear, attenuated 

 below, thin, ciliated, 3-nerved, scarcely longer than the limb. Stamens 

 glabrous, longer than the unguis ; filament filiform. Ovary oblong, abc'Ut 

 7 mm. long ; styles 5, longer than the ovary ; gynophore slender, about 

 14 mm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Ogura-aenno (linuma's Soraoku-Dzusetsu, VIII. fol. 63 

 recto, no. 62 ). 



Hah, Prov, Higo in Kiusiu : Senchomuda in Aso-gori [B.. Nakagaica ! 

 Sept. 27, 1896). 



I have a specimen of this very rare species, which is due to the 

 kindness of Mr. Hisatomo ^Nakagawa. 



Dianthus (Carthusianastrum) shinanensis (Yatabe) Makino in sched. 

 herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, (1899). 



Diunthus harhatus var. shinanensis Yatabe in sched. herb. Sc. Coll. 

 Imp. Univ. Tokyo, (1892), et in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, VI. (1892) p. 132. 



Dianthus Carthusianorum linuma Somoku-Dzusetsu, VIII. fol. 24 

 verso, non Linn. 



Perennial, 3-7 decim. high. Stem erect, ascending at the base, slender, 

 terete, usually pubescent-scaberulous above ; node elevated ; internodes 

 about '2-l\ cm. long. Leaves erect-patent or spreading, longer than the 

 internodes, linear, acuminate with an acutish point, gradually attenuated 

 below into a narrow petiole, glabrous, scabrous-margined, green, 3 or 

 5-nerved, about 3-9 cm. long including the petiole, 3-7 mm. wide ; petiole 

 nervate, dilated and shortly connate at the base. Inflorescence dichoto- 

 mously short-branched, fasciculately dense-flowered, 3^-7 cm. across, with 

 a flat top ; peduncles short ; floral leaves linear, or setaceo-linear, scarious 

 on the basal margin, shorter than the flower. Flowers very shortly 

 pedicellate, 12-18 mm. across, purple ; bracts 4, shorter than the calyx, 

 oblong or narrowly oblong, long-setaceo-acuminat^, narrowly scarious and 

 cihated margined, seta3 scabrous. Calyx narrowly cylindrical, glabrous, 

 finely striate, 5-fid, 16-21 mm. long ; lobes erect, unequal in length, 



