128 AET. I. B. HAYATA ! 



long, I mm. broad, thinly 5 -striate, nearly round in section. 



Pimpinella SaxiJEraga Linn. ; DC. Prodr. IV. p. 120 ; Hook. f. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. II. p. 685. 



Hab. in monte Morrison, ad 8000 ped. alt., leg. T. Kawakami, 

 1906. 



DisTEiB. Em-ope, Northern and Western Asia. 



Obseev. a very small perennial herb ; rhizome erect, stem 

 pubescent or subglabrous rarely branched, 15-20 cm. high ; radical 

 leaves (inclnding petiole) 8 cm. long, IJ cm. broad, pinnate, pinnae 

 4-5 jnged, with terminal one, or sometimes bipinnate, lateral 

 leaflets opposite, rotundate, 1 cm. long as broad, snbsessile or 

 shortly stalked, dentate, petioles 4 cm. long ; canline leaves 5 J cm. 

 long, bipinnate or bipinnatifid, leaflets 3-4-juged, oblong in outline, 

 IJ cm. long 1 cm. broad, 3-5-lobed, lobes lanceolate, acute, terminal 

 lobe usually many-cleft. Umbella 7 -radiate ; umbellula small, 

 peduncles 2 cm. long, carpels ovately semiglobose, thinly 5- 

 ribbed If mm. long, nearly round in section. An extremely tiny 

 form of the species. 



Phellopterus Benth. 



Phellopterus littoralis Benth. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. 

 I. p. 905 ; Foebes et Hemsl. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 331. 



DisTEiB. Saghahen Japan and China. 



I have seen this species in the Herbarium at Hongkong, and re- 

 member having seen the plant in Formosa. It is not yet represented 

 from Formosa in the Herbarium at Tokyo. 



Oreomyrrhis Endl. 

 Oreomyrrhis involucrata Hayata sp. nov. Herba perennis. 



