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Gymnadenia Keiskei Maxim, var. Kinoshitai Makino, var. nov. 



Perennial, attaining about 10 cm. high. Tuber solitary, perpendicular 

 oblong-cylindrical, thick, about 13-14 mm. long, 3-4 mm. across; roots 

 few, short ; turio lateral, sessile. Stem slender, erect, terete, glabrous, 

 quite green, monophyllous below and few-vaginate at the base. Leaves 

 erect-patent, arcuate dorsally, broadly linear, acutish, concave above, cylindrico- 

 vaginate at the base, entire, quite green, somewhat thickish, 3-nerved, 4i- 

 5i cm. long, 5-7i mm. broad. Eaceme short, secundly 1-3-flowered ; 

 rachis short, attaining about 7 mm. long, green ; bracts shorter than the 

 ovary, subulate, acuminate, 2i-9 mm. long. Flowers 5-7 mm. across, 

 white and shaded with very light violet, inodorous. Outer perianth 

 erect-patent, concave, 3-nerved ; the upper one elliptical- ovate, rounded- 

 obtuse, about 3 mm. or a little more long ; the lateral ones obliquely ovate, 

 obtuse, slightly longer than the upper. Inner perianth connivent, scarcely 

 shorter than or nearly equal to the outer-upper one in length, concave, 

 ovato-oval, somewhat oblique, obtuse, 2-nerved, deeper in colour. Labellum 

 8-10 mm. long, 8-9 mm. wide, sessile, 3-parted, broadly cuneate at the 

 base, with two short purple lines at the base above ; the lateral lobes 

 erect-patent, ligulato-oblong, obtuse ; the midlobe a little longer than the 

 lateral ones, ligulate, truncato-rounded and slightly bifid at the end. 

 Calcar small, about 2 ram. long, horizontal, clava to-oblong, rounded at the 

 end, usually scarcely curved. Anther erect, closely placed, purpurascent. 

 Ovary pedicellate, cylindrical, curved in the apical portion, glabrous, green, 

 8-13 mm. long including the pedicel. Bulbiferous at the top of the raceme 

 in autumn after anthesis. 



Nom. Jap. Koam-cJiidori (T. Kinoshita). 



Rah. Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, cult, from Koani Village in the prov. Ugo 

 (T. 3Iahino ! June 3, 1903). 



This differs from the type, by the form of the labellum, narrower 

 leaves, colour of the flower, and the bulbiferous habit. It was first found 

 and collected in the sphagnous place on the foot of some mountain in 

 Missato in Koani Village, Kita-akita-gori, prov. Ugo, June 28, 1902, by Dr. 

 Tomosaburo Kinoshita, and my specimens are due to the kindness of the 

 collector. 



Ampelopsis japonica (Thunb.) Makino, nom. nov. 



Paidinia japonica Thunb. Fl. Jap. (1784) p. 170 ; Willd. Sp. PI. II. 



