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attenuate to the petioles which are 1 cm. loiig, dark above, somewhat 

 glaucous beneath, primary veins 4-5 on l>oth sides, arcuate near the apex, 

 reaching the next upper ones. Racemes axillary near the apex or terminal, 

 5-6 cm. long, densely many-flowered, scarcely exceeding the leaves. Flowers 

 yellowish pedicellate, pedicels short, 2 mm. long. Sepals 5, outer ones 3, 

 inner ones 2, deciduous, the uppermost one of the outer sepals globose, larger, 

 rounded, saccate, 3 mm. long, 2-lower ones of the same series broadly rounded, 

 oblique at the base, 1| mm. long; 2-inner ones petaloid, oblique, oblong, 

 5|- mm. long. Petals connate, lateral ones very imbricate, 7 mm. long, rounded 

 at the apsx, keels shortly cucullate, long cristate on the back, iucrassate, bi- 

 saccate. Ovary glabrous shortly stipitate, disk broadly annular. Styles 

 dilate at the apex, appendiculate under the stigma. Capsules 5 mm. broad, 

 4 mm. long, mernbrauaceous, compressedly obreniformed or broadly orbicular, 

 emarginate, loculicidal on the margin. Seeds ovoid, 2 mm. long, pendulous, 

 pilose, strophiolate, strophioles 1.2 mm. long on each side. 



HAB. Taichu, Kashigatani. 



Somewhat resembles P. IVattersii HANCE in Journ. Bot. (1881) p. 209 ; 

 but differs from it in having ob-reniformed fruits, much smaller flowers, 

 divided crests, and in many other points. 



Polygala Tatarinowii REG.; TRANCHE r PL David, p. 45; FORBES et 

 HEMSL. Jnd. Fl. Sin. I. p. 62 ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PI. Formos. p. .'54. 

 HAB. Girau, Horisha. 

 DISTRIB. Northern China and Japan. 



Polygala japonica HOUTT. ; DC. Prodi. I. p. 324 ; BAKER et S. 

 MOORE in Jouin. Linn. Soc. XVII. p. 379 ; FRANCHET PL David, p. 45 ; 

 FRANCH. et SAVAT. Enum. PL Jap. I. p. 45 ; HENRY List PL Formos. p. 

 18; ITO et MATSUM. Tent. FL Lutch. p. 311; PALIBIN Conspect. FL Korere 

 I. p. 37 ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enum. PL Formos. p. 34 ; HAYATA Fl. Mont. 

 Formos. p. 55. 



Polygala sibirica LINN. Sp. PL ed-2 p. 987 ; DC. Prodi- I. p. 324 ; A. 

 W. BENN in Joum. Bot- (1878) p. 277 ; HANCE in " Joum Bot. (1882) p. 

 257"; FORBES et HEMSL. Ind. FL Sin. I. p. 61. 



