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deltoid-subulate, sharplj' tapering, ciliated, closely 5-9-nerved. Petals 5, 

 long-unguiculate ; limb patent, subrhombeo-cuneato-orbicular, irregularly 

 denticulate on the front margin, barbulate below, 6-8 mm. long, 5-8 mm, 

 wide ; unguis slender, 2i-3 times as long as the limb. Stamens 10, 

 shorter than petals; filament filiform, glabrous; anther oblong-linear, 

 Styles 2, filiform. Ovary shortly stipitate, cylindrico-oblong, about 6 mm. 

 long. Capsule cylindrical, equal to the calyx in height, about 1| cm. 

 long. Seed broadly ovate, tapering at apex, compressed, black. 



Nom. Jap. Miyama-nadeshiko, shina^io-nadeshiJco. 



Icon. linuma's S5moku-Dzuseteu, VIII. fol. 25 recto, no. 24 (flowers 

 laxer) sub HacMjo-nadesliiho (nom. mala). 



Hah. Prov. Shinano (Herb. ! Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo), Mt. Toga- 

 kushi. {T. Inui\ Aug. 8, 1897), Mt. Shirouma-dake (F. Yabe\ herb. ibid. 

 Aug. 25, 1902); Prov. Kai : Yunoshima (Z'. /;i?a' and F. Ashizawal July 

 1895). 



Dianthus (Caryophyllastrum) nipponicus Makino, sp. no v. 



Dianthus Seguieri Savatier in linuma's Somoku-Dzusetsu, ed. 2, VIII. 

 fol. 24 recto, non Vill. 



Perennial, attaining 35 cm, or more in height. Stem erect, but 

 ascending at the base, loosely and strictly ramose, glabrous. Leaves erect- 

 patent, lanceolate, acutish, attenuated below into petioles which are shortly 

 connate at the base, entire, subscabrous and narrowly hyalino-margined, 

 glabrous, thickish, usually shorter than internodes, 21-7 cm. long, 5-12 mm. 

 wide. Flower solitary, pedicellate, 2|-3 cm. across ; bracts 4, subadpressed or 

 erect-patent, usually shorter than the calyx, green and thickish above, the 

 outer ones lanceolate, acuminate with an obtuse tip, scabrous on the margin, 

 scarious-margined below, the inner ones shorter than the outer, ovato- 

 lanceolate, attenuated above, scarious-margiiied below. Calyx oblong- 

 cylindrica!, glabrous, striate, about 2 cm. long, 6 mm. across ; teeth erect, 

 deltoid-lanceolate, acutish or obtuse, scarious and subciliated margined, 

 5-nerved, ,5-6 mm. long. Petals 5, 3i cm. long ; limb patent, lato- 

 subrhomboid, laciniate with linear acuminate teeth, not barbulate, 11mm. 

 long, 15mm. Avide ; unguis slightly exserted, large, about 2i as long as 

 the limb, about 25mm. long, broadly linear, gradually attenuated below, 

 glabrous-margined, with 3 main nerves. Ovary clavato-oblong, about 

 11mm. long; styles filifurm, about 16mm. long; gynophore very short. 



