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Perennial, 2-3 cm. liigli, J-fiowered. Rhizorae erect or ascending, 

 shortly elongated; roots fibrous and iiroportionally long. 8tein erect, simple, 

 thinly pubescent. Iladical leaves lew, long-petiolate, glabrous, reniform or 

 subreniform, 4-8 mm. long, 7-1 1mm. l)road, broadly truncate or cordate 

 at the base, 3-clelt with .3-lobed lateral segments, the middle segment 

 obovato-elliptical and entire or shortly cuneato-obovate and ."j-hjbnlate, the 

 lobes of the lateral segments shortly ovfll-ovate; cauline leaves 2 or sometimes 

 1, remote, the inferior one ])etiolate, 3- cleft, the lateral segments usually 

 2- or sub-2-lobed, the superior one veiy shortly jietiolate, usually 3-parted 

 into oblong or angntato-oblong laciniu. Peduncle, pubescent with snb- 

 adpressed pale hairs. Flower about 7?, mm. across, yellow. Sepals ellip- 

 tical, thinly pilose, about 3 mm. long. I'etals longer than the sepals, 

 oblong, 4mm. long. Stamens shorter than the sepals. Ovaries in the 

 elliptical head. 



Hah. Prov. Siiinano: Mt. Yarigadake near ^It. Shirouma {K. Tanalm\ 

 Aug. 1903). 



New to the Japanese Flora. The radical leaves resemble those of 

 some form of Hijdrocoiyle roi}i.n<l!folin lioxb. 



Zygadenus (Anticlea) japonicus Makino, sp. nov. 



Perennial, 12-24cm, in height. ]>ulb tunicate, ovoid, elongated into a 

 neck above, G-lOmm. across ; the outer coat membranaceous, nigrescent, sub- 

 fibrose above ; roots fil)rous, white. Leaves light green, not glaucous ; radical 

 ones 3, shorter than the stem, recurved-erect-patent, linear or broadly linear, 

 gradually narrowed below, subacute or obtuse, keeled, S-19cm. long, 4-10 mm. 

 broad; the nerves close. Stem J, erect, strict, often provided with a reduced 

 bract-like leaf in the middle om abnve it, and with a basal leaf which is 

 shorter than the radical leaves. Raceme simple or often with 1 or 2 

 branches below, erect, shorter than the stem, laxly tlowered, 2^-12 cm. long, 

 1|— 3cm. wide; rachis strict or snbflexuous, light green; bracts subulato- 

 lanceolate to orbiculato-ovate, acuminate or subacute, embracing the pedicel 

 and longer or shorter than it, viridescent tinged with purple colour, some- 

 times slightly scarious on the margin, 3-25 mm. long. Flowers 8-12 mm. 

 across, hermaphrodite, but those of the top of the raceme and all of those 

 of branches male, pale-yellowish, viridescent and often tinged with ])in|ile 

 externally ; pedicel erect-patent, strict, light green shaded with purple» 

 2-15 mm. long. Perianth patulose or erect-patent, suberect after anthesis 

 7-8 mm. long, the base olconical and adnate to the ovary; segment 



