Jan. i9io.] TA KEDA.—BEITR. ZUB KENNTMS. D. FL. V. HOKKAIDO. 13 



treten, wahrend die Stammform, nach Maximowicz, in den 

 Kurilen vorkommt. 



6. Ranunculus Francheti de Borss. in Bull. Boiss. VII 

 (1899), p. 591. 



Planta humilis 10-20 cm alta, gracilis. Foliis tenuibus, in 

 nervis tenuiter pubescentibus. Petalis late-obovatis, leviter 

 emarginatis. 



Norn. Japon. Yezo-Kimpoge (nov.). 



Hab. Yezo : in locis humidis Chikabumi, prope oppid. Asahikawa 

 (T. Miyake ! V. 1905) ; Pompira, prov. Teshio (Ninogami ! V. 1905). 



Selten ! 



(Fortsetzung folgt.) 



Observations on the Flora of Japan 



(Continued from vol. XX III. p. 254.) 



By 



T. Ma kino. 



JEginetia japonica Sieb. et Zucc. in Abhandl. Akad. 

 Muench. IV. 3 (1846), p. 141, n. 476 ; Reuter in DC. Prodr. 

 XL p. 720. 



JEginetia indica Makino, Phanerog. et Pterid. Jap. Ic. 111. 

 II. tab. 80, pro parte, non Linn. 



Perennial, attaining about 3 decim. in height, quite gla- 

 brous ; roots fleshly fibrous, interlaced, branches often repent on 

 host. Scape erect, short, about l-|-7cm. long; peduncles 

 slender, solitary or few, erect, terete, smooth, purpurascent, 1 

 to an axil of scales ; scales erect, adpressed, subulate, subulato- 

 ovate, or oblong-ovate, obtuse or acute, about 5— 12mm. long. 

 Flowers solitary. Calyx 4-5 cm. long, inflated, elliptical or ob- 

 long in side view, obtuse at the apex, unicolour and purpurascent, 

 not flavescent and not striped. Corolla exserted or shortly 

 so, directed laterally or upwards obliquely, purple ; tube broad 



