268 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Hab. Nippon: tractu Nikké ; “central mountains, 2-7000 ft.” 
(Maries!) ; prov. Nambu; loco non indicato (Dickins! n. 905). 
Forma b. rLavescens Makino in Toky6é Bot. Mag. xxiv. 141 
(1910). 
Floribus concoloribus, sepalis flavescentibus. 
: ippon: ad ice montis Fuji; in pratis herbosis 
prope Managashi, prov. Shinano. 
I cannot find any specific distinction between A. oxysepala 
plant di 
A, glandulosa Fisch. by some botanists, A. glandulosa, however, 
is different from it in having lower and almost leafless stems with 
fewer and much larger flowers, the sepals of which are more than 
4 cm. long, nearly 3 cm. broad, bluish violet in colour, petals of 
white colour, very small and rounded, spur short and much in- 
curved, leaves pubescent beneath. 
Tn the flora of Japan the typical oxysepala is distributed in 
the island of Yezo, while var. Buergeriana is found abundantly in 
the mountainous districts of the main island 
Cruiciruea retina Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, p. 659. Huth in 
17 
th, l. ¢. 
Planta fere bipedalis, caule petiolisque hirsutis. Folia, bi- vel 
sripinnata, foliolis ovatis, incisis, terminalibus trilobatis. Racemus 
ci 10 cm. | 
floribus _breviter pedicellatis, petalis apice sepe emarginatis, 
antheroideis, staminodiis nullis, carpellis junioribus villosis, bre- 
viter stipitatis, stipite suo triplo longioribus, maturis hirsutis, 
seminibus dense squamatis. 
Hab. Yezo: insula Rishiri; Kameda, proy. Oshima. Kurile: 
aa ins. Shikotan; Tokkarimasuba, ejusd. ins. ; Onnepet, ins. 
turup. 
New to the flora of Japan. This variety is distributed in 
Eastern Siberia and Sajanian Mountains, about 2300 m. abov 
the sea-level. 
Var. noy. LEIOGyNA mihi. 
_ Caulis 4- fere 9 dm. altus. Folia ternata, segmentis iterum bi- 
pinnata, foliolis omnibus plus minusye petiolulatis, ovatis, lobato- 
vel inciso-dentatis, subtus in nervis pilosis. Racemus terminalis 
