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Elodea japonica Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Batav. II. p. 15 (1852). 

 Elodea crassifolia Bl. 1. c. 



Hypericum virginicu7n Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 146 ; Franch. et Sav. 

 Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 5&, non Linn. 



Elodea vircjinica Kegel, Tent. Fl. Ussur. n. 104 ? 



Hypericum petlolatum Miq. 1. c, non Walt., nee Franch. et Sav, I. 



p. 56. 



Elodes vivfjinica var. asiatica Maxim, in Mel. Biol. XI. p. 157 (1881). 

 Nom. Jap. 31uhu-otogiri, Blidzu-yanagi. 

 Hah. Japan, sparingly distributed. 



STIGMATODACTYLUS Maxim, in litt. 1890.— Diurideoe, Neottie^e, 

 ORCHID AC EiE. 



Perianth free, patent. Sepals subequal, the lateral ones subfalcate. 

 Petals similar to the lateral sepals. Labellum sessile to the very base of 

 the erect column, undivided, flat, membranaceous, the face naked, but 

 the base with a subcarnose 2-parted appendage partly connected to the base 

 of column. Column erect, rather long, incurved above, semiterete, narrowly 

 2-alate above, with a process in the middle in front ; clinandrium concave, 

 continued to the ahe of column. Anther 2-celled, cells contiguous, valves 

 strongly adnate to the connective. PoUinia 4, in 2 pairs, sessile, com- 

 pressed. Stigma under the short rostellum, broad, concave, furnished with 

 a capitate-tipped long appendage on the lower edge. Capsule erect-patent, 

 narrowly oblong. 



Small terrestrial herb, 1-fbliate, racemosely 1-3-flowered ; rhizome 

 elongate, with a small tuber at the end. Stem simple, erect, glabrous. 

 Leaf in the middle of stem, sessile, evaginate, ovate, acuminate. Flower 

 erect, not reverse, very shortly pedicellate ; bracts foliaceous. 



Stigmatodactylus sikokianus Maxim, in litt. 1890 ; Makino, 111. 

 Fl. Jap. I. n. 7 (1891) tab. 43 ; in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XIII. (1899) p. 9 ; 

 et Phanerog. et Pterid. Jap. Icon. lUustr. I. tab. 39 (1900); Matsum. 

 Ind. PI. Jap. II. 1, p. 263. 



A perennial Orchid, about 3-10 cm. high, glabrous. Ehizome hypo- 

 gaeous, often curved, somewhat thicker above, pale, flaccid, covered with 

 root-hairs, provided with a few (about 2) minute colourless scales above, 

 at each axil of scales with a short pale and slightly fleshy branch; the 

 tuber small, simple, globose to ellipsoid, attaining about 3 mm. across. Stem 

 slender, angulate, pale green, furnished with the single leaf above the middle 



