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4, lanceolatis aristatis, 1 cm. longis 2J mm. latis, margine albo- 

 lam,ellatis, extns intusque glabratis ; staminibns 2-3-seriatis intimis 

 longioribus 6 mm. longis, filamentis nigricantibus, antheris angastis 

 connectivis latioribus productis acliSGiiia sabglabrata ovata, stylis 

 longe barbatis, barbis rubris. 



Hab. Taiko, leg. T. Kawakami, Aug. 1908, (No. 58). 



The present variety differs from the type in having much 

 smaller flowers, ovate-lanceolate leaves, and not leafy inflo- 

 rescence. It resembles the type in stamens and achenes, and 

 especially in glabrous sepals turning black when dried. The 

 type has usually larger flowers, with sepals twice as longer as 

 that of the variety, and longer, looser, and less flowered in- 

 florescence, with longer peduncles. The present variety is 

 represented at Kew by a specimen from Hongkong, which is 

 labelled C. uncinata, but is different from the type of the species 

 mentioned. 



JRanunculus Linn. 



Ranunculus Kawakamii Hayata sp. nov. Herba perennis, 

 tenuis, 7 cm. alta, hirsuta, pauci-ramosa. Folia radicalia fasci- 

 culata, longe petiolata, petiolis 4-5 cm. longis, hirsutis vel subgiab- 

 ]'is, l^asi dilatatis stipulam squamosam formantibus, laminis 

 semi-orbicularibus, vel rhoraboidalibus, apice rotundatis vel obtusis 

 brevissime 5-lobatis, (lobis obtusis), inferiore integris basi acntis, 

 truncatis, interdum reniformibus vel cordatis, prope margineni 

 hirsutis, 10 mm. longis, \- inni. Litis. Folia caulina minora, hirsuta, 

 petiolis basi dilatatis amplcxicaulibus. Flores ad apicem ramorura 

 solifarii. \('\ axillares, pedunculis 1 cm. longis hirsutis ; flores 

 apertientes 5 mm. in diamctro. Sepala 4-5, rotuudata, valdo concava 

 apice bifida vol rotuudata, 2 mm. longa extus pilosa. Petala 3-5, alba. 



