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Mahino\), Kamibun [T. Malzino\)', Prov. Higo : Mt. Sonie-dake in Isl. 

 Amakusa {M. Murohami !). 



This species is common in the province of Tosa, where it flowers abun- 

 dantly after Ilh. rliomhicum Miq.; it grows on bills and low mountains. 



Ranunculus (Hecatouia) Kawakamii Maldno sp. nov. 



Ranunculus Cymhalarice herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, non Pursh. 



Ranunculus sp. Kawakami in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XI. p. 56 ; Makino 

 I. c. XIII. p. 321. 



Perennial, glabrous, flagelliferous, 4-12 cm. in height; runners few, 

 repent, long, filiform, radicant, with remote nodes ; roots fasciculato-fibrous. 

 Leaves radical, few-13-tufteil, erect, long-petiolate, ovate-elliptical, elliptical, 

 elliptical-oblong, or oblong, obtuse or obtuse-subtruncate at the base, coarsely 

 3- rarely .'i-dentate with depressed and obtuse teeth (the middle tooth 

 larger), entire on lateral margins, 7-16 mm. long, 5-10 mm. broad, flaccid- 

 herbaceous, membranaceous when dried ; main nerves 3 ; petiole slender, 

 much longer than the blade, 1|-7J cm. long, narrowly vaginate at the 

 ba?e. Scape aphyllous, erect, slender, exceeding the leaves, simple or with 

 one branch above the middle ; bract situated in the middle portion of 

 scapes or at the base of the branch, small, subulate or linear, shortly 

 vaginate at the base. Flower about 8mm. across, terminal, yellow. 

 Sepals 5, patent, not reflexed, elliptical or ovato-elliptical, obtuse or rounded- 

 obtuse, concave, thin, glabrous, deciduous, usually 3-nerved, viridescent, about 

 3 mm. long. Petals 5, patent, longer than the sepal, oblong, manifestly 

 cuneately unguiculate, rounded at the apex, 3^-4mm. long, nerves trichoto- 

 mously divided at the point of the nectary ; nectary situated between the 

 limb and claw, minute, the scale short and truncate, both lateral margins con- 

 nected to the petal. Stamens numerous, equal to sepals in length ; filament 

 linear-filiform ; anther short and depressed-ovate. Ovaries numerous form- 

 ing a globose head, compressed, oblong- sublunate, straight at the inner 

 edge, acute at the apex and minutely beaked into a short straight or 

 slightly curved style, nearly 1mm. long including the style. Follicles 

 numerous, aggregated into a globose head (4^mm. acrsss), small, compressed, 

 obliquely cuneato-obovate, about l|mm. long, viridescent, longitudinally 

 several-ribbed, minutely beaked with the straight stylo, the inner edge 

 nearly straight ; gynophore obovoid-globose, very thinly hairy, 1 mm. and 

 more in length. 



