Flowers olivaceo-pnrpurascent ; pedicels erect-patent, filiform, glabrous or very 

 minutely and thinly puberulent, 3^-8 mm. long. Perianth reflexed, thin, 1- 

 nerved, 2i-3 mm. long. Sepals obtuse ; 

 the superior one ovato-oblong {Fig. V. 

 2.); lateral ones {Fig. V. 3.) slightly 

 oblique and oblong or oblong-lanceolate. 

 Petals {Fig. V. 4.) about as long as 

 sepals, spathulato-oblong or linear-ob- 

 long, quite obtuse, revolute on margin. 

 Labellum {Fig. V. 6-6.) about 2|-3- 

 times as long as the perianth, Si-S^mm. 

 long, cnneate, sagittate, with a tooth 

 on each side of the very base, diver- 

 gently 2-fid above, with a minute 

 depressed-deltoid obtuse point in the 

 bottom of the deltoidly open sinus, 

 narrowly and longitudinally elevated 

 in centre ; lobes narrow and luto-linear, 

 acute or obtuse and often pauci-dentate 

 at the apex, straight or straightish, 

 delicately 3-6-nerved, 3-5 mm. long, 

 1-11 mm. broad; basal teeth oblong 

 or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or acutish, arcuate, turned upwards and clasping 

 the column. Column very short, globose ; clinandriuni large, deeply 

 concave ; anther broadly ovate, obtuse, convex, sessile on the posterior side 

 of the clinandrium ; rostellum short, very slightly retuse ; stigmi horizon- 

 tal, concave. Ovary obovoid, glabrous, 2-3 mm. long. Flowers April-May. 



Nom. Jap. Mitrasaki-futaharan, Hime-futaharan (T. Makino). 



Hah. Prov. Tosa : Nant)kawa {K. Watanabel herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. 

 Univ. Tokyo, April 8, 1890; herb. T. Makino, April 17, 1890); Prov. 

 Uzen: Mt. Yimai-zaka in Nishi-tagawa-gori {T. N'igasaival April 21, 

 1894), Shady hill on coast in Nishi-tagawa-gori (T. Nagasaiva I April 27, 

 1894) ; Prov. Yamato : Mt. Kasuga ( Y. Yamada ! herb. H. Takeda, May 

 12, 1904). 



Rare. Well-marked species among Japanese Listera. It has more 

 or less an affinity to Listera cordata E. Br. 



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Listera cordata (Linn.) R. Brown in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, V. p. 



