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cm. wide, greenish to white, often purplish, the pedicels 

 spreading, 11-15 mm. long; flowers 5-5.7 cm. long, white. 



June. Honshu (Hokuriku and n. Kinki Distr.); much 



planted in our gardens. 



Var. hypophylla F. Maekawa. Fun\ta glattca Sieb.; H. 

 glauca (Sieb.) Stearn Hagakure-gieoshi. Cultivated se- 

 lection with larger ovate-orbicular abruptly acuminate leaves 

 24-33 cm. long; flowers pale purple, about 6 cm. long; scapes 

 shorter. Occurs with the typical phase. 



Var. fortunei (Bak.) Asch. & Graebn. Fun\ia jortunei 



Bak.; H. jortunei (Bak.) L. H. Bailey. Renge-giboshi. 



Smaller plant with orbicular-depressed leaves. Occurs with 



the typical phase. 



27. Hosta montana F. Maekawa. H. jortunei var. gi- 



gantea L. H. Bailey; H. cucullata Koidz., pro parte Oba- 



GiBosHi. Leaves broadly to narrowly ovate or ovate-cordate, 

 18-23 cm. long, 10-13 cm. wide, abrupdy cuspidate, green, 

 slightly rugulose and papillose on the 10-13 pairs of nerves 

 beneath; scapes erect, much longer than the leaves, 1- to 3- 

 scaled, the bracts stellately spreading, ovate to lanceolate, 18- 

 a mm. long, 7-14 mm. wide, acute; flowers disposed hori- 

 zontally on the scape, pale purple to white, 4.5-5 cm. long, 

 the pedicels 10-13 mm. long. July-Aug. Hills and moun- 

 tains, Hokkaido, Honshu (n. and centr. distr.). 



28. Hosta crispula F. Maekawa. H. jortunei var. mar- 

 ginato-alba L. H. Bailey; H. latijolia var. albomarginata 



Wehrh. Sazanami-giboshi. Leaves arcuate-spreading, 



ovate, 13-16 cm. long, 6-10 cm. wide, gradually cuspidate, 

 rounded at base, green, the white margin undulate, dull above, 

 widr 7-8 pairs of nerves, strigillose on the nerves beneath; 

 scapes much longer than the leaves, terete, 50-80 cm. long; 

 racemes 30- to 40-flowered, the bracts ovate to lanceolate or 

 ovate-elliptic, whitish, spreading, 1.5-2 cm. long, 7-12 mm. 



wide; flowers about 4 cm. long. July. Planted in our 



gardens. 



29. Hosta kikutii F. Maekawa. Hyuca-giboshi. Leaves 

 ellipdc, ellipdc-ovate to lanceolate, 15-20 cm. long, 7.5-14 cm. 

 wide, flat or undulate, acuminate to abrupdy cuspidate, nar- 

 rowly decurrent on the petiole or cordate to truncate, green, 

 with 8-10 pairs of nerves; flowers dense, white, tardily ex- 

 panding, about 4.5 cm. long, the bracts white, lanceolate, 15- 



20 mm. long, the pedicels about 25 mm. long. Kyushu 



(Hyuga Prov.). 



Var. yakusimensis (Masam.) F. Maekawa. H. sieboldiana 



var. yakusimensis Masam.; H. polyneuron F. Maekawa 



SuDARE-GiBosHi, HiME-HYUGA-GiBosHi. Leaves lanceolate, 



many-nerved; perianth softer and thinner than the typical 

 form, with die upper portion campanulate-dilated; stamens 

 exserted. Kyushu (Yakushima). 



30. Hosta tosana F. Maekawa. Tosa-no-giboshi. Re- 

 sembles the preceding; flowers subcapitate, the bracts densely 

 imbricate, green, boat-shaped, attenuate above, the pedicels 

 short, purple-dotted, the perianth about 48 mm. long, the 

 narrower portion white, 6-grooved, the dilated upper portion 

 gradually obconical, pale purple. Shikoku. 



31. Hosta caput-avis (F. Maekawa) F. Maekawa. H. 



tosana var. caput-avis F. Maekawa Unazuki-giboshi. 



Leaves 3-6, rather firm and thick, obliquely ovate, oblong to 

 lanceolate, 8-12 cm. long, 5-12 cm. wide, cordate, long- 

 attenuate, the petioles 15-25 cm. long; scapes declined from 

 near base, terete; flowers 4-4.5 cm. long, the pedicels purplish, 



about 1 cm. long, the bracts whitish. June. Rocks along 



ravines and valleys in mountains; Honshu (Kii Prov.), Shi- 

 koku. 



32. Hosta sacra F. Maekawa. Sakura-giboshi. Leaves 

 ovate-orbicular to ovate-elliptic, 18-20 cm. long, 12-20 cm. 

 wide, abruptly cuspidate, slighdy cordate to obtuse at base, 

 with about 13 pairs of nerves, green above, glaucous beneath; 

 scapes 75-100 cm. long, erect; racemes about 20-flowered, the 

 bracts ovate to lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, imbricate, boat- 

 shaped, green or rose-purple, 18-28 mm. long; flowers pale 

 purple, 4.5^.8 cm. long. Honshu (Hirosaki). 



33. Hosta hippeastrum F. Maekawa. Rappa-giboshi. 

 Leaves thin, horizontally spreading on long ascending petioles, 

 ovate, 13-20 cm. long, 7-12 cm. wide, abrupdy acuminate, 

 cordate, deep green, flat, with 8-9 pairs of nerves, the margins 

 slighdy undulate; scapes erect, firm, about 50 cm. long, the 

 bracts obliquely spreading, about 22 mm. long, 12 mm. wide; 

 flowers about 15, disposed horizontally on the scape, 3.5-4.5 

 cm. long, pale purple. Cultivated in Honshu (Iga Prov.). 



34. Hosta kiyosumiensis F. Maekawa. Kiyosumi-gibo- 

 SHi. Leaves petiolate, ovate to elliptic-ovate, 8.5-1 1 cm. long, 

 4.5-7 cm. wide, caudate, truncately narrowed to the petiole, 

 yellowish green and dull above, with 5-6 pairs of nerves; 

 scapes much longer tiian the leaves, 28-36 cm. long; flowers 

 4 or 5, disposed laterally on the scape, white, about 5 cm. long, 

 the bracts 15-25 mm. long, 4-6 mm. wide, ovate-lanceolate, 

 green, boat-shaped, the pedicels 1-1.2 cm. long, arcuate, shorter 

 than the bracts. Honshu (Awa Prov.). 



Var. petrophila F. Maekawa. Iwama-giboshi. Plants 

 smaller with flowers often purplish, the dilated upper portion 

 of the perianth narrower. Honshu (Kinki Distr.) . 



35. Hosta densa F. Maekawa. Key'ari-giboshi. Leaves 

 spreading, ovate to ovate-elliptic, 16-22 cm. long, 9-12 cm. 

 wide, acuminate, obtuse at base, with 8-10 pairs of nerves, 

 deep green and dull above; scapes longer than the leaves, 

 about 60 cm. long; racemes ascending, many-flowered; flowers 

 about 40, dense, pale purple, 4.7-5 cm. long, the bracts oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute, green, 2-2.5 cm. long, 7-9 mm. wide, the 



pedicels horizontally spreading, 10-13 mm. long. Honshu 



(Kinki Distr.). 



36. Hosta pachyscapa F. Maekawa. Benkei-giboshi. 

 Leaves horizontally spreading, deep green, elUptic to ovate- 

 elliptic, sometimes oblong, 13-17 cm. long, 6-11 cm. wide, 

 acuminate, sHghtly undulate, lustrous, abruptly narrowed 

 below and obmse at base, about 7-nerved on each side; scapes 

 ascending, 70-95 cm. long, with leaflike scales; flowers dense, 

 about 4.5 cm. long, pale purple, the bracts imbricate, oblong- 

 lanceolate, green, the margins purplish, acuminate, the pedi- 

 cels 5-8 mm. long, arcuate. Honshu (Tokaido, Kinki 



Distr.). 



12. HEMEROCALLIS L. Wasuregusa Zoku 



Rhizomes short, roots sometimes thickened and fusiform; leaves radical, elongate, narrow, flat, 2-ranked, linear; scapes naked 

 or nearly so; inflorescence racemose, the flowers few to several, large, erect or horizontal, on short pedicels, bracteate; perianth 



