48 THE JOURNAL OF JAPANESE BOTANY. [Voi. iii. No. 12. 



I3— Ij mm. long, l^-Smm. broad; mericarp arciiately 1-iierved on each side. 



Nom. Jap. Miyama-chidome. 



Hah. JAPAN (T. Makixo!). 



This species is found growing in the shady places on mountains, and it 

 apparently differs from Hi/droroli/Je Yahei Makino l)y its larger leaves with the 

 closer sinuses, the more numerously flowered umbel, and the home where it 

 is growing. 



Gagea nipponensis Makino, nov. sp. 



Gagea pusilla Makino; Makino et Ne.moto, Fl. Jap. (1925), p. 1258, non 

 Schult, f. 



Perennial glabrous. Bulb solitary, subterranean, small, ovoid-globose, 

 white, covered with black coats, 5-9 mm. across, often accompanied by many 

 basal bulbils, with fine many white fibrous roots at the base. Leaves radical, 

 solitary, erect, angustato-linear, canaliculate, attenuated above with an obtuse 

 tip, gradually long-attenuated below and white towards the base, about 10-20 cm. 

 long, 11-82 mm. wide, thickish, green. Scajje solitary, erect, slender, more or 

 less enlarged above, green, about 8-18 cm. long, filiform towards the base; 

 bracts 2, sub-opposite, green, leafy; the outer one largest, convolute-spathaceous 

 below, linear-lanceolate, elongato-attenuated with an obtuse tip, attaining 

 50 mm. long and 7 mm. wide: the inner one shorter, linear-subulate, attain- 

 ing 25 mm. long; bracteoles subtending the pedicels, very small. Flowers 

 small, pedicellate, 2-7-umbellate, about 9-11 mm. across, yellow; pedicel gracile, 

 about 15-35 mm. long, green, rarely with a minute bracteole below the middle. 

 Perianth 6, linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse at the apex, entire, thin, 

 3-6-nerved, about 7 mm. long, but afterwards slightly accrescent and attaining 

 9 mm. long. Stamens 6, inserted on the lower portion of the perianth and 

 shorter than them; filament narrowly subulate, tapering towards the apex; 

 anther rounded to elliptical-oblong, -f-l^mm. long, with yellow pollen. Ovary 

 obovoid, rounded at the top, about 2 mm. long, 1-1 J mm. across: style erect, 

 stout, straight, 2-2| mm. long; stigma not thick. 



Nom. Jap. Hime-amana. 



Prov. ]\IUSASHI: Shimura (Seiiciiiro Ikeno ! and Tomitaro Makino! 

 April 14, 1890.). 



This species is very closely allied to Gagea pusilla Schult, f. which is the 

 native of the central-eastern Europe and western Asia, but our plant is smaller 

 in all aspects. In Japan tliis is uncommon. 



{To be continued.) 



ERRATA 



No. S, Cover, line 13 from liottom, for Siime read Some 



No. 10, pane 38, lines 10-11 from bottom, for leUCanthUS (MAKING) MAKING, nov. coml). vfCUl 



leucanthus (Making) nakai. 



— . p. ?S, line 19 from Ijottom, for Satsuma-hiyoOorl read Salsuma-hototoyisu. 



No. 11, page 41, line 13 from bottom, for 27 cm. read 27 mm. and for 20 cm. reail 20 mm. 



— , page 43, line 5, for AEADZIKO read AKAdziro 



— , Cover, for ontlnuM ri'ad Vontinuid 



