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each side. Cymes loose, few-pluri- or sub-numerous-flowered, the branches 

 sometimes secundly flowered ; bracts leai'y. Flower very sliortly pedicellate, 

 about 10-13 mm. across, yellow. Sepals 5, uneq[ual in size, the smaller 

 ones linear-lanceolate, the larger ones foliaceoiis and oblong to elliptico- 

 oblong and subcrispate, obtuse, green, minutely nigro-punctate on the 

 margin, 3-5-nerved, Petals, 5, patent, thin, spathulato-oblong or narrowly 

 oblong, rounded or obtuse at the apex, slightly longer than the smaller 

 ones of the sepals, about 6 mm. long. Stamens many, shorter than 

 the petals, sets not distinct ; filament filiform ; anther broadly rounded 

 Ovary ovoid, glabrous, 3- rarely 4-sulcate, 3- rarely 4-locular, 3 mm. long; 

 styles erect, narrow, equal to the ovary in length ; stigma capitellato- 

 punctiform. Capsule globoso- conical, turgid, 3-rarely 4-sulcate, usually a 

 little longer than the persistent calyx, with the persistent styles, about 

 8 mm. long, 6 mm. across, carpels thinly coriaceous. Seeds numerous, 

 cylindrico-oblong, brown, minutely subreticulate, about | mm. long. • 



Hah, Frov. Tosa : Sakawa {T. Mahino\ 1884, Sept. 7, 1887), Fukui 

 near Kochi {T. Malcino\ 1885), Kamibun {T. Maldno\ Sept. 1892), 

 Mama {T. Maldno\ Sept. 1892), Kochi {T. Makino\ Aug. 1892), Niida 

 and Kure (2'. 3Iahino\ Aug. 1, 1889); Prov. Musashi: Tokyo (T. I\Iahino\ 

 Aug. 23, 1888), Shimura {T. MaMno\ Sept. 1893, May 22, 1898); Prov. 

 Shimoosa; Mama {T. Maldnol 1900); Prov. Mikawa : Kaminagara {G. 

 Nagural Aug. 1, 1897). 



This grows in field, and has an affinity to Hypericum JiaJioncnse 

 Franch. et Sav., which is found on mountains. It differs specifically from 

 H. erectum Thunb. 



Viola (Nomiminm) Okuboi Makino, nom. nov. 

 «. typica. 



Viola KeisJcei, fi. Ohuhoi Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XVI. (1902) 

 p. 133. 



Viola Keiskei herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, non Miq. 



Acaulescent, flaccid, not stoloniferous ; trunk thick, attaining 9 mm. in 

 diameter, and 2-^- cm. in length, short, erect, or sometimes obliquely erect, 

 inarticulated, the surface rough with small protuberances; vagiufe few, 

 trifid, viridescent ; main roots few, elongate, with fine rootlets. Leaves 

 densely c;espitose, erect-patent, petiolate, ovato-reniform or reniform- 

 orbicular, rounded-obtuse, cordate with an open sinus, crenato-serrate 



