march. 1907.1 MAKINO.-OBSEBV. ON THE FLORA OF JAPAN. 59 



Nom. Jap. Hina-sumire (hoy.). 



Hab. Japan; middle and northern (M. Ogumal H. Takedal 

 H. Namhul T. Makinol etc. I etc. I). 



This is unquestionably an intermediate species between Viola 

 violacea Makino and V. Selkirkii Pursh, from which the form of 

 the leaves are different. It is also allied to V. Tokubuchiana 

 Makino. 



Viola (Nomimium) ovato-oblonga (Miq.) Makino. 



Viola sylvestris forma ovato-oblonga Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 86. 



Viola sylvestris var. ovato-oblonga Makino in Bot. Mag, 

 Tokyo, XVI. (1902) p. 137. 



Viola sylvestris var. montana Yatabe in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, 

 VI. (1892) p. 131, non V. montana Linn. 



? Viola Thibaudieri Franch. et Sav. Enum. PL Jap. I. p. 43. 

 et II. p. 290; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 756. 



Nom. Jap. Nagaba-tachitsubosumire. 



Hab. Japan. 



var. obtusa (Miq.?) Makino. 



? Viola sylvestris forma obtusa Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 86. 



Viola sylvestris var. odorifera Makino (1904). 



Caulescent. Rhizome erect or ascending, short, hard ; roots 

 hard, numerons, branched. Stems erect or ascending, hard at 

 the base, few to several, simple, leafy, puberulous with minute 

 patent hairs, or glabrous, attaining about many centimetres in 

 length with cleistogamous flowers after vernal anthesis. Leaves 

 alternate, long-petiolate, reniform, cordato-reniform, or ovato- 

 cordate, obtuse, depressed-crenate, glabrate but puberulous when 

 young, or quite glabrous, slightly thickish, minutely fuligineo- 

 puncticulate when dried, 1-3 cm. long, 1-2 J cm. broad in flower; 

 petiole angustate, puberulous with minute patent hairs, canalicu- 

 late in front, longer than the blade; stipules erect, viridescent, 

 lanceolate or subulato-lanceolate with fimbriato-pectinate linear 

 acuminate lacinae, membranaceous, ciliated or not so, shorter 

 than the petiole, about 10-16 mm. long. Flowers turned down- 

 outward with an ascending calcar, about lj— If cm. across, 



