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3-parted, 3-cleft or siin[5!e aiul entire, short petiolcd or sessile, dilated at the 

 base. Lower cauliiie leaves trisected ; lobes palinately 3-parted or 3-cleft, 

 longer petioled, dilated at the base. Flowers terminal, single, appearing before 

 the leaves unfoUicii, 2-3 cm. across. Sepals 5, of unequal size, deciduous, ovate, 

 oval, obovate or suborbicular, obtuse or rounded at the apex, greenish, pale 

 yellowish green, or whitish on the margin, about half the length of the petals. 

 Petals S-12, obovate, ellii)tico-spathuIate, white, c:itire or eniarginate at the 

 apex, orange-yellow and foveate at the base, i-i-S cm. long, 5-S mm. wide. 

 Stamens numerous, shorter than the petals ; filaments filiform, about 5-7 mm. 

 long. Carpels nemerous ; ovule i, pendulous. Achenes glabrous, tipped with 

 the curved remnant of the style, in globose head. 



Nom. Jap. Uidakaso. 



Hab. Mt. Apoi (M. TsusniiM.\! VIII. 1924; M. Tate\v.\ki ! V. 22 & 29, 

 1927). 



It grows on rocky and gravelly slopes or under Pintis puniila at the alt. 

 400-600 m. of Mt. Apoi, and also in the alpine meadow between Mt. Apoi and 

 Mt. Samani, Prov. Hidaka, Hokkaido. 





