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the base, embracing the stein, blades bro.-ully rounded, 3-lobate, loK-s 

 roiuidlv rhomboid slightly lobulate. or irregularly serrate, ' truucately 

 cordate at the ba.se, nearly rounded at the apex. Cauliiie leaves like 

 radical cues. petioles dilated at the Imse, embracing the stem, upper 

 ones trilolied, lolx?s acute. Panicles few-flowered or nearly reduced to 

 one flower, bracts minute lanceolate - nun. long, peduncles li cm. long. 

 Flowers, when opened, 7-8 mm. in diameter. Sepals o. elougately oblong, 

 obtuse or rounded at the apex, 34 mm. long 1 mm. broad, hirsute on the 

 back. Petals 5-10, oliovate, cimeate rounded at the apex, cuneate at the 

 base, 4 mm. long '2 mm. broad, distinctly glauduliferous at the base. Stamens 

 nearly 20. '2 mm. long, anthers rounded emargiuate at the apex, filaments 

 more or less complauate. carpophore obloiigo -cylindrical. Carpels numerous. 

 Acheues obliquely ix>uuded, 1 : '. mm. long, rostrate, minutely punctate at the 

 . I >eaks very sljoii. 



HAE. Bi6rit.su : Kokugio. 



Near /'. /.//?////</ iii-.ri-si$ Mi:i;i;. et li'iLFE, but dift'er^ from it by the 

 much smaller flowers and more round le; 



2. Ranunculus Eawakamii HAYATA 11. VI. Materials fr a Flora 

 >f r.>rmos!i p. 19. Perennial herb. Stem slender. 7 cm. long hirsute, few- 

 branched. Radical leaves clustered, longe petiolate, petioles 4-5 cm. long, 

 hirsute, or subglabrous, dilated at the base, turning to a stipule-like scale. 

 blades semiorbicular or rhomboid, rounded or obtuse at the apex, shortly 

 o-loliel, 'lol>es obtuseX entire downwards, acute or truncate at the base or 

 sometimes reuiformed or cordate, hirsute near the margin, 10 mm. long, 

 12 mm. broad. Catiline leaves smaljer, hirsute, petioles dilated at the base, 

 embracing the stem. Flowers solitary on the apex of the branch* 

 axillary, peduncles 1 cm. long, hirsute ; flowers when opened 5 mm. in 

 diameter. Sepals 4-5, rounded, very concave, bi-fid or rounded at the 

 ajx.'x. '2 mm. long, pilose outside. Petals :! a. white, oblong, rounded at 

 the apex, 4 mm. long. Stamens nearly 10, li mm. long, anthers oblong, 

 rounded at the apex, filaments complanate, more or less shortly liirtellous at 

 the base. Carpels nearly 10. Syncarps ^ r lol 



