"tamano kandsaki." The variety grandiflora (Funkia grandi- 

 flora Sieb. & Zucc.) appears to differ only in the somewhat 

 larger flowers, and in having the bracts of the raceme larger and 

 more leaf-like. 



From an inspection of the list of synonymy cited above, it 

 will be seen that this plant has had many names. It has fre- 

 quently been considered the Hemerocallis japonica of Thunberg's 

 Flora Japonica, on account of the flowers of that plant being 

 described as white. Thunberg, however, states that in his plant 

 the filaments are attached to the base of the corolla at the 

 edge of the ovary, a condition not existing in the plant here 

 under consideration, in which these parts are adnate to the peri- 

 anth tube for a considerable portion of its length. Thunberg 

 may have had a pale-flowered form of the plant considered in 

 this paper as N. japonica. The name under which this plant is 

 commonly known in gardens in this country and in those of 

 Europe is Funkia subcordata, a name descriptive of the shape of 

 the leaves, but not more so than is that of plantaginea, here 

 adopted, which refers to the resemblance of these leaves 

 to those of the common plantain of Europe, Plantago major, a 

 resemblance striking indeed. 



2. Niobe japonica (Thunb.). Japanese or Lance-leaved Day-lily 



Aletris japonica Thunb. Funkia lancifolia Spreng. 



A showy perennial forming large dense masses, with elliptic 

 to nearly ovate leaf-blades which are narrowed at the base, and 

 racemes of lavender flowers. Leaves numerous, green: blades 

 10-15 cm. long, sometimes up to 6 cm. wide, lanceolate or elliptic 

 to ovate-lanceolate, usually equally narrowed at both ends, rarely 

 more broadly so at the base, with 3-5, rarely more, curved nerves 

 on each side of the midrib: scape 4-6 dm. tall, overtopping the 

 leaves, the scattered and distant leaves gradually passing into 

 the bracts of the inflorescence: inflorescence racemose: flowers 

 sometimes up to 20, finally nodding, on pedicels 4-6 mm. long: 

 perianth pale lavender, 3-5 cm. long, the slender tube, less than 

 one half the length of the perianth, narrowed into a broad limb, 

 the segments 1.5-2 cm. long and 8-10 mm. wide, acute: capsule 

 2.5-3 cm. long, pendulous and appressed to the scape. 



A native of Japan. There is a variegated form in cultivation 



