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ovules narrowly oblong. Follicles 5, erect-patent, ovato-lanceolate, acute 

 with the style, compressed, the ventral appendages conspicuous. Seeds 

 cylindrico-ohlong,^ bay, minutely granulate. 



Hab. Prov.* Hizen in Kiusiu : Mt. Unzen (A. Sato ! Sept. 10, 1902). 



My specimen was kindly sent by Mr. K. Ando, Principal of the Normal 

 School of Nagasaki, prov. Hizen. 



Corydalis (Capnoides) japonica Makino, sp. nov. 



Elate, flaccid, glabrous, attaining about 8 decim. in height. Stems 

 csespitose, erect, ascending at the base, flexuous, ramose, foliate, attaining 

 about 7mm. in diameter, the branches all racemiferous. Leaves thinly 

 membranaceous, glaucous-green, but usually darkish when dried, the 

 basal ones long- pet iolate but the superior ones short-petiolate ; the petiole 

 angustato-vaginate ; the blade elliptical but oblong in the uj>per ones, 

 bipinnatisected, the cauline one attaining about 23cm. in length ; primary 

 segments 3-4-jugate, patent or erect-patent, with petioles 3-2.5mm. long ; 

 secondary segments 1-2 or sub-3-jugate, sessile or subpetiolulate, but 

 decurrent in the superior ones, broadly ovate to ovato-oblong, broadly 

 cuneate, 3-9-lobed, 5-35 mm. long, 4-20 mm. broad ; lobes rounded or 

 sometimes rounded-obtuse and minutely mucronate at the apex ; the basal 

 leaves often with deeply lobate secondary segments. Kaceme elongate, 

 attaining 21cm. long in fruit, densely and secundly many-flowered from 

 the base to the top ; rachis slender ; pedicels gracile, deflexed and 3-6mm. 

 in length in fruit ; bracts subulato- linear, acuminate, entire or sometimes 

 minutely pauci-denticulate, sessile, shorter than the pedicel. Flower small, 

 horizontal, pale-yellowish, 9mm. long. Sepals minute, obliquely cordato- 

 reniform, with a deltoid acumen, eroso-dentate, hyalino-membranaceous, 

 nearly twice as long as the calcar, caducous, limm. long. Petals free 

 below, the upper one 7mm. in length, the lamina orbicular, rounded and 

 mucronate at the apex, concave, subcarinate, the unguis oblong, slightly 

 wider than the lamina, 5-nerved ; the lower one slightly longer than the 

 upper one (excepting the calcar), the lamina broadly ovate, mucronate, 

 concave, subcarinate, the unguis angusta to-oblong, 5-nerved towards the 

 middle ; the lateral (interior) ones slightly shorter than the lower one, 

 spathulato-elliptical, with a rounded apex, long-narrowed below into an 

 unguis, conspicuously winged dorsally above, the wing somewhat excurrent 

 above and decurrent below ; calcar ^ as long as the petal, ovato-elliptical. 



