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Hob. Prov. Shimotsuke: Nikko {T. Maldno\ Oct. 17, 1904, cult, bv 

 B. loki). 

 Rare. 



Mitella (Mitellaria) japonica Miq. var. integripetala Makino nov. 

 var. 



Leaves oval-ovate, deeply cordate with a close sinus, acute or subacute, 

 shallowly lobate with depressed-ovato-deltoid dentate lobes, very thinly 

 pilose or subglabrous, dark-green along the nerves. Petal simple, subulato- 

 filiform, smooth, recurved-reflexed, reddish above. Stigma semiorbicular, 

 2-4-lobulate, red. Flowers in April. 



Hah. Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, cult. {T. Blaldnol May 9, 1904). 



This differs from the typical one of Blitella japonica Miq., which has 

 pinnate petals. 



Saxifraga (Diptera) nipponica Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XV. 

 (1901) p. 10. 



Perennial, constantly estoloniferous. Rhizome ei)igfeons, glabrous, bay, 

 thick, cylindrical, long-creeping, radicant, di-trichotomously divaricato-ramose 

 (the branches dividing from the apical portion of older rhizome), but some- 

 times short and erect or ascending with very short few branches and dense 

 roots. Radical leaves tufted at the apical end of branches of rhizome, 

 long-petiolate, s|)reading or erect, orbicular to orbiculato-reniform, cordate 

 with an open or closed sinus at the base, shallowly or obscurely many- lobate 

 with sharply and coarsely pauci-pluri-dentate or dentato-serrate (teeth del- 

 toid or depressed-ovato-deltoid in shape) lobes, ciliated, disparsed with erect 

 or suberect pilose hairs above, thinly pubescent or glabrous beneath, flaccid- 

 herbaceous, green, 2-6 cm. long, 2^-7 cm. broad, palmately veined; petiole 

 semiterete or compresso-terete, patently pilose or glabrous, viridescent, 

 3-16 cm. long, vaginato-dilated and villoso-ciliated at the base ; cauline leaves 

 much reduced in size, shortly vaginato-dilated at the base, remotely placed, 

 usually 2 to 4, bract-like, linear, entire, sharply tipi)ed, 7-13 mm. long, 

 or sometimes the lowest one with a small (about 8 mm. long) flabellato- 

 orbicular pauci-dentate and petiolate blade. Scape erect, much exceeding 

 the leaves and attaining about 30 cm. in height including the panicle, 

 slenderly terete, piloso-pubescent with sjireading glandular hfiirs as are the 

 rachis, peduncles, and pedicels. Panicle loose, ova to-pyramidal or elliptical. 



