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rounded-obtuse, suddenly contracted near the receptacle. Stamens 6 ; 



filaments united into 2 bundles, subulato-lanceolate, attenuated above, 

 hyalino-membranceous, 3-nerved, very shortly 3-fid at the apex ; anthers 

 3 to each bundle of filaments, minute, oblong. Ovary linear, attenuated 

 towards the style ; style about ^ as long as the ovary ; stigma transverse and 

 curved downwards, remotely with 4 projections. Capsule angustato-linear, 

 crispato-contorted, 20-22cm. long, 2ram. broad ; the valves 5-nerved, 

 convex-smooth ; style gracile, 3mm. long. Seeds small, subreniform- 

 orbicular, compressed, black, shining, compresso-punctate, IJmm. long ; 

 caruncle oblong-hnear, longer than the seed, 2i mm. long, obliquely 

 patent. 



Hah. Prov. Musashi : Mt. Yokarai in Chichibu {T. 3Ialiino\ July 16, 

 1888), Nakatsugawa in Chichibu {T. llahhio ! July 17, 1888), Otaki-mura 

 in Chichibu (K. Watanabel May 30, 1895); Prov. Tosa in Shikoku : 

 Komugiune in Hongawa (Y. and T. YosMnagal Aug. 1890). 



This species is very closely allied to Corydalis streptocarpa Maxim. 

 in China, but it difters from the latter principally by the upper petal, the 

 stigma, and the ultimate segments of leaves. 



Tricyrtis affinis Makino. sp. nov. 



Stem erect, 2^-13 decim. high, slender, flexuous above, usually simple or 

 sometimes laxly ramose, hirsute with retrorse-patent rigid hairs. Leaves 

 oblong, oblong-lanceolate, or ovato-oblong, shortly acuminate or cuspidato- 

 acuminate, extremely shortly petioled or sessile, rounded and amplexicaul at the 

 base, crispate and scabro-ciliated on the margin, very thinly piloso-pubescent, 

 5-13 cm, long, 2-6 cm. wide, usually longer than the internodes, 7- sometimes 

 9-11-nerved, the basal ones usually spathulato-obovate or oblong, cuspidate, 

 embraced with the attenuated base, pale green, densely or laxly blotched 

 with dark-green round coarse spots. Flowers terminal and axillary, the 

 terminal ones 1-4, the axillary ones 1-2, pedicellate, 25-28 mm. across ; 

 the common rachis very short ; pedicels strict, piloso-pubescent with patent 

 hairs, 1-2 cm. long ; bracts scaly, subulate. Perianth recurved-patent, white 

 and loosely maculate with purple spots, or rarely immaculate, about 14-18 

 mm. long ; the outer ones oblong or oblong-lanceolate, mucronate, thinly pilose 

 externally, thick and gibbose and pilose at the base ; the inner ones nar- 

 rower, linear-lanceolate, mucronate, subhastato-lobed near the base, sessile and 

 shortly acute at the base. Stamens longer than the perianth, recurved above; 



