36 THE JOURNAL OF JAPANESE BOTANY. [Voi. .n„. hi 9. 



Gsranium hidaense Marino, nov. sp. 



Perennial, attaining about 14 decim. in length ; rhizome thick, hard, with 

 •stDut fasciculate roots and old fibres of the l)asal portion of petioles, reddish- 

 brown. Stems few to a stock, erect, slender, er?ctpatently loosely ramose, 

 puberulous with white retrorse hairs but afterwards glabrate below and denser 

 above ; internodes elongate, turaid above the node at the base. Leaves (eauline) 

 opposite, reniform in outline, 5-7-parted, contiguous, green and thinly pilo.-u- 

 lite above, paler and very thinly pilose with antrorse hairs on veins beneith, 

 antrorsely ciliated on margin, 4-14 cm. wide ; lobes cuneato-ol)Ovate, again 

 divided above into lobules, which are usually coarsely few-lobato-dentate, 

 loosely prominently, veined beneath ; petiole slender, often very long ; radical 

 leaves many, larger, very long-petiolate ^attaining 7 decim. long), the largest 

 one about 15| cm. broad. Stipules ovate, subulato-deltoil, deltoid-ovate, or 

 ■ovato-subulate, thin, glabrous liut minutely ciliated on margins, often 

 sharply few-dentate at the apex, about 3-12 mm. long. Peduncles shmder, 2- 

 flowered above; bracts minute, subulate, sharply tapering, viridescent, l|-3 mm. 

 long; pedicels gr; eile, erect-patent then divaricate, about 1^-3 j cm. long in 

 flower, but divaricate or more or less deflexed in fruit. Alabastrum nodling. 

 Flowers about 2Jcm. across, lilac, pretty, ephemeral. Sepals 5, spreading in 

 flower, l)ut erect-patent in fruit, oblong, but ovato-oblong in the outer ones, 

 long-mucronate at the apex, minutely ciliated on margins towards the apex, 

 scarious-margined in the inner ones, longitudinally 5-nerved, very minutely 

 puberulent externally, persistent, &-9mm. long including the mucro. Petals 

 .5, obovate, rounded at the apex, cuneate towards the bearded (hairs white) 

 claw, entire and obscurely loosely minute-ciliated on margins, more or less 

 •corrugate on surface and veined, 12 mm. long, 8 mm. wide. Stamens 10, those 

 of the outer row shorter, those of the inner row about 8 mm. long ; filament 

 subulato-filiform, reddisli, ciHated atthebisal portion; anther oblong, purple, 

 limm. long. Ovary and the beak minutely puberulent ; styles 5, short, filiform, 

 stellate, recurved, stigmatiferous along the inner side, 2^ mm. long. Capsule 

 5 mm. across; beak slender, straight, 12-13 mm. long including the styles. 

 Seed glabrous. Flowers in August, 



Nom, Jap. Hida-furo (nov.). 



Hah. Prov. HID A: Near Takayama ( T. Marino! 1924, 1925,). 



Pasonia suffruticosa Andr. var. hiberniflora Marino, nov. var. 

 Flowers smaller, white or purple, about 8 cm. across, blooming in winter. 

 Nom. Jap. IC<tn-hotan, Fuyu-hotan (Winter Paeonia). 

 Hah. JAPAN, cultivated. 



Peucedanuta multivittatum Maxim, forma dissectum Marino, nov. f. 



Leaflets narrow, inciso-partite or inciso-cleft. 



Nom. Jap. Kireha-no-Jtal-usanhöfu (nov.). 



JIah. JAPAN, alpine. (To he continued.) 



