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bracteolate below the middle ; bracteoles linear-subulate, acuminate, thin, 

 papilloso-margined below, about 4 mm. long. Sepals subulato-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, glabrous, 3-nerved, the lateral veins with loose venules ; au- 

 ricles conspicuous, subovate, bifid or paucidentate, those of the lateral ones 

 smallest and deltoid with entire margin. Petal 



Nom. Jap. Hime-hikuhasumire (nov.). 



Hah. Prov. Omi: Mt. Ibuki (F. Makinol Aug. 2, 1898). 



This comes near to Viola Tokubuchiana Makino, but the leaves very 

 different. 



Patrinia (Palasopatrinia) sibirica (Linn.) Juss. in Annal. Mus. Par. 

 X. (1807) p. 311'; DC. Prodr. IV. p. 623; Ledeb. FI. Alt. I. p. 131, 

 et Fl. Ross. II. p. 426; Lessing in Linnaea IX. pp. 154, 157; Spreng. 

 Syst. Veg. I. p. 385 ; Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veg. III. p. 89, et Mant. p. 

 47 ; R«g. et Til. Fl. Ajan. p. 100 ; Herd. PI. Radd. III. 1, p. 34 ; Hock 

 in Engl, et Prantl, Nat. Pfl.-Fam. IV. 4, p. 176, fig. 61 B-D. 



Valeriana sibirica Linn. Sp. PI. p. 34 ; Richt Cod. n. 269, non Willd. 



Fedia sibirica Gtertn. Fruct. II. p. 37, tab. 86, fig. 3 ; Vahl, Enum. 

 PI. II. p. 22 ; 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL I. p. 302. 



Valeriana sibirica /?. humilior Gmel. Fl. Sib. III. p. 123. 



Valeriana ruthenica Willd. Sp. PI. I. p. 181 ; Pers. Syn. PI. I. p. 

 38; Bot. Mag. tab. 2325. 



Fedia ruthenica Willd. ex Ledeb. FI. Ross. 11. p. 427, non Mirb. 



Patrinia ruthenica Juss. 1. c. '^ 



Patrinia coronata Fisch. * Hort. Gorenk. ed. 2 (1812) p. 43.' 



Valeriana rupestris Uspenski, ex Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II. p. 426. 



Valerianella lutea Moench. ' Meth. p. 493.' io 



Dwarf, about 9 cm. high in my specimen. Root elongate, thick, black- 

 Radical leaves cjespitose, numerous, attaining about 5 cm. long, thickish^ 

 glabrous but ciliated in long petioles^ some elliptical and pinuati-parted or 

 pinnatifid with obtuse pauci-obtuso-dentate linear-oblong linear-obovate or 

 obovate lobes, and some spathulato-oblanceolate with irregularly dentato- 

 serrate margins. Stem erect, simple, bifariously pilose, naked from cauline 

 leaves in my specimen. Corymb small, about 2|cm. across in my specimen ; 

 branches pilose ; the inferior bracts i opposite, pinnati-parted with linear 

 laciniee, ciliated ; bracteoles. linear, obtuse, ciliated: Flower short-ipediGellate-, 

 yellow. Calyx short, with 5 semiorbicular lobes, much enlarged and cup- 

 shaped in fruit and crawned on it, strongly nervatel. Oojiotla" with' '4 



