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l)oth surfaces venoso-r(!ticiilat(Ml with vcinlets ; radical ones long-petiolate, 

 oblong-laiiceolatv, ovate-lanceolate, oblong, or ovate, obtuse, subtruncato- 

 rounded or snbcordato trnncate at the base, with many and erect-{)atent 

 lateral veins, 6-8cm. long, 2^-3cm broad ; petiole slender, apterous, with 

 a long membranaceous sheath, attaining 8cm. long; cauliue leaves much 

 smaller, sliortly but distinctly petiolate, ovate to linear-lanceolate, obtuse, 

 rounded-obtuse at the base, but the superior ones acute at the base, the 

 uppermost one sometimes reduced into a setaceous shape, the sheath long, 

 the superior free portion fulvous and (hinly membranaceous, subtruncate 

 but the inferior ones bifid. Raceme terminal, dense-flowered, oblong- 

 cylindrical, li-2|cm. long, 1- nearly IJcm. across, continued, pedunculate ; 

 bracts thinly membranaceous, ovate or suhnlato-ovate, acuminato- acute, oae- 

 uerved, ferruginous, 3-4injm. long; bmcteoles vaginate, obliquely truncate, 

 thinly membranaceous. Flowers pedicellate, campamdate, Smni, across, 

 rose ; pedicel shorter than thy flower. Perianth deeply 5-parted ; segments 

 oblong to angustato-oblong, obtuse. Stamens 8, about equal to the perianth 

 in height, inserted to the base of the perianth ; filament snbulato-filiform ; 

 anther elliptical, dorsifixed, the cells Innato-oblong, closely placed but free 

 each other. Ovary elliptical, shortly attenuated on both ends, trigonous ; 

 styles 3, exserted, much longer than the ovary, erect, filiform ; stigma ter- 

 minal, punctate. Achene (innnature) elliptical, acute on the both ends, 

 trigonous, smooth. 



Hah. Prov. RiKUCHfj : Mt. Hayachine {C. Wagawa ! no. 174, July 

 1900 ; 0. Sato ! no. 138, July 28, 1902 ; G. Toha ! no. 70, Aug. 8, 1903 ; 

 T. Someya ! herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, July 7, 1903). 



The reticulation of the veinlets and thicknes; of the leaves resemble 

 those of Polygonum viviparum Linn. 



Cypripedium guttatum Swartz var. Yatabeanum (iMakino) Pfitz. 

 Orchid.-Pleon. in Engler's Pflaiuenr. lY. 50, (1903) p. 33. 



Cypripedium Yatabednmn Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XIII. (1899) 

 p. 91. 



Lower sepals (which are connate into one) viridescent, shaded with a 

 light purpurascent- brown towards the margin ; the upper sepal ])ale-yellowish 

 and purpurascetit-brown on the margin externally, yellow-purpurascent-brown 

 internally. Petals whitish, l.dotched with purpurascent-brown colour, vil- 

 lose with pale hairs at the base internally. Labellum yellow, macnlato- 

 nebulous with purpurascent-brown,. yellow on the inflexed margin, villose with 



