Oct. 1907.] MAKINO.—OBSEBV. ON THE FLORA OF JAPAN. 141 



tuse or acutish, 1-nerved, pubescent dorsally and ciliated as are 

 bracteoles, longer than the ovary, 2\— 3 mm. long ; bracteoles 2, 

 shorter than the bract, deltoid or ovato-deltoid, acute. Flowers 

 centrifugally expanded, numerous, dense, rose-purple, sessile, 

 about 7 mm. across. Calyx-lobes patent, obtuse and calloso- 

 mucronate at the apex, 3-nerved towards the centre, puberulent 

 below externally ; the outer 2 somewhat narrower, oval to 

 elliptical ; the inner 2 orbiculate ; the tube ovato-oval, com- 

 pressed, 4-angled, puberulent above, about If mm. long. Disk 

 inconspicuous. Stamens 9—11, long-exserted, 3-times as long 

 as calyx-lobes, about 10 mm. long ; filament filiform, gradually 

 dilated and flattened upwards, suddenly short-attenuated at the 

 apex ; anther rounded, nearly 1 mm. long, dark-purple. Style 

 much shorter than filaments, hardly longer than calyx-lobes, 

 filiform ; stigma subcapitate, fimbriate. Ovary included, oval, 

 compressed, glabrous. Fruit : calyx-tube about 2 mm. long, 

 oval, compressed, 4-angled, glabrous but puberulent at the apex. 



Nom. Jap. Karaito-sb. 



Hah. Prov. Kaga : Mt. Hakusan (R. Yatabe and /. Matsu- 

 mura ! herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Aug. 8, 1881) ; Prov. 

 Shinano : Mt. Shirouma (Y. Yabe ! herb. ibid. Aug. 25, 1902). 



This species has a close resemblance to S. obtusa Maxim., 

 but the number of stamens and the colour of anther will dis- 

 tinguish them. 



Sanguisorba grandiflora Makino, sp. nov. 



Sanguisorba tenui folia /?. grandiflora Maxim. Prim. Fl. Amur, 

 p. 94? 



Perennial, about 2-3 decim. or more high. Rhizome thick, 

 oblique, covered with old bases of petioles, rufous. Radical 

 leaves several, ascending, 11-19-foliolate, about 9-16 cm. or 

 more long including the petiole, which is short or long (about 

 2-7 cm. long) and often crispate rufo-pubescent below with a 

 vaginate purple base ; cauline leaves much smaller and a few 

 in number with a few leaflets ; leaflets extremely petiolulate but 

 sessile in the superior ones, sometimes minutely stipellate, ovate 

 to oblong, acutish to subcordate at the base, obtuse or acute, 



