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attenuated below, a little oblique in form and 7-8 ram. long, light viola- 

 ceous, but white below with a very dilute greenish colour ; the lower one 

 much shorter and smaller, concave, oblong-elliptical, rounded-obtuse at the 

 apex, white, but violaceous above, with deep violet strife ; calcar very short, 

 semi-orbicular, scrotiform, not exceeding beyond the basal auricles of the 

 sepals, 1 J-2 mm wide. Connective-tip ovato-orbicular, rounded-obtuse, slightly 

 shorter than the anther-cells ; appendages adnate to the anther, subrect- 

 angular-subdeltoid, acutish-obtuse-tipped, with a thick nearly straight front 

 edge. Ovary oval, rounded-obtuse, glabrous ; style as long as the ovary, 

 enlarged above, geniculated at the base ; stigma subbilobato-orbicular, 

 slightly concave, with a very short rostrum. Capsule ellipsoid, obtuse, virides- 

 cent, glabrous, 5-6 mm. long ; valves oblong. Seeds minute, lato-obovoid, 

 acute at the base, 1 mm. long, sooty. Flowers March- April. 



Nom. Jap. TsulcusM-sumire (T. Makiuo). 



Eab. Prov. Satsuma : Kagoshima (KeisuJce Tamura ! March 11, 1900 ; 

 Setsusahuro Tanaha ! March 30, 1903, April 27, 1903, May 6, 1903 ; L 

 NagasMma\ March 1904, May 15, 1905). 



Distrib. Formosa, China, and British India. 



Anemone debilis Fisch. "var. soyensis (de Bois.) Makino. 



Anemone soyensis de Bois. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. VII. (1899) p. 590. 



Perennial, about 10-14 cm. high. Khizome gracile, repent, loosely 

 rooting. Kadical leaves with a long and glabrous petiole, simply ternate, 

 thinly pubescent above, glabrous beneath, ciliated on margin, membranaceous, 

 flaccid, 1-^-3 cm. long, 2-34 cm. wide ; leaflets shortly petiolulate, ample, 

 obtuse, broadly truncato-cuneate at the base, obtuso- or acuto-dentate 

 with a very minute mucronate point ; lateral ones subrhombeo-rounded,. 

 oblique in form, in size nearly equal to the terminal one which is rounded 

 often trifld and 10-19 mm. in length. Stem erect, gracile, glabrescent, 

 with a few membranaceous ovate or oval vaginas at the base, 7-10 cm. 

 long. Involucral leaves 3, petiolate, ternate with sessile leaflets, cordate- 

 deltoid in outline, thinly pubescent alx)ve, glabrous beneath, ciliated on 

 margin, acute or obtuse with a very minute mucronate tip at the apex, 

 inciso- or subinciso-serrato-dentate with mucronato-tipped obtuse or acute 

 teeth, flaccid, membranaceous, 16-28 mm. long, 16-35 mm. broad; lateral 

 ones smaller, oblong or elliptical-oblong, oblique in form, subbifid, the inner 

 margin entire except the apical portion ; the terminal one oblong-elliptical, 

 cuneate below with entire margins, veins rather conspicuous and often pur- 



