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7-15 cm. long, 6-12 cm. across; rachis slightly flexuous or only the upper 

 portion so ; bract subtending the peduncle, subulato-linear, sharply pointed, 

 dilated and pauci-inciso-serrulate at the base, 5-10 mm. long; peduncles 

 spreading, stout-filiform, nearly strict, loosely branched into 1-4-pedicels, 

 with a minute linear or subulate bracteole opposite to the pedicels ; pedicels 

 filiform, attaining about 2 cm. long. Calyx 5-parted, herbaceous, virides- 

 cent, disparsed and ciliated with minute glandular hairs, persistent and 

 slightly increasing the size in fruit ; tube short, adherent to the base of 

 the ovary, flatly depressed ; sepals unequal in size and larger in the lower 

 ones, patent and then more or less reflexed, ovato-lanceolate or subulato- 

 lanceolate, obtuse or acute at the apex, with 3 nerves connected in the 

 upper portion, the lowest one about 3i-4^ mm. long and the upper ones 

 about 2^-3 mm. long in flower. Petals 5, white, thin ; the lower 2 much 

 larger, pendulous, apparently unequal in size, linear or linear-lanceolate and 

 often somewhat falcate, gradually attenuated towards both ends, acuminate 

 with an acute tip, sessile, entire, with veins running upwards, the larger 

 one about 1^-2 cm. long and the other l^-l-|cm. long; the upper 3 

 patent, broadly ovate, acute or a})iculate at the apex, rounded and very 

 shortly unguiculate at the base, entire, obscurely loose-veined, yellow in the 

 basal portion. Stamens 10, patent, longer than the upper petals, glabrous; 

 filament linear-filiform, attenuated towards the base, about equal to or 

 longer than sepals in length, 4-5 mm. long ; anther minute, ovato-oval, 

 light rose. Ovary broadly ovoid, divided into 2 parts above and attenuated 

 to the styles, glabrous, yellow and nectariferous on the upper side ; styles 

 2, erect, gracile, shorter than the ovary ; stigma minute, obliquely subcapi- 

 tate ; ovules numerous, minute, oblong. Capsule broadly conico-ovoid, 

 about 4 mm. long, the upper half divergent with gracile persistent styles. 

 Seeds minute, numerous, ellipsoid, darkish brown, disparsed with minute 

 sessile dark granules. Flowers April-June. 



Norn. Jap. Haru-yukinoshita (Spring Saxifraga). 



Add. Hah. Pro v. Musashi : Tokyo, cult. {T. 3IaMno\ May 1904); 

 Prov. HiDA : Yamaguchi in Ono-gori, spont. {T. Sakanel no. 155, 1904); 

 Prov. Etchu : Sasahara-mura, spont. (Y. Hasegaiva\ no. 35, May 7, 1904). 



Drosera spathulata Labill. 'Nov. Holl. PI. Spec. I. (1804) p. 79, 

 tab. 106, fig. 1 ' ; Sdiult. Syst. Veg. VI. (1820) p. 762 ; DC. Prodr. I. 

 (1824) p. 318; Sprcng. Syst. Veg. I. (1825) p. 955; Planch, in Ann. Sc. 

 Nat. Ser. 3, IX. (1848) p. 193; Bot. Miig. tab. 5240; Hook. fil. Ilandb. 



