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subvar. yakushimensis Makino, nov. 



Pvgmv, pubescent ; roots fibrous. Leaves small, rotund- 

 reniform, 3-cleft, about 6-14 mm. long, 9-15 mm. broad, pale- 

 maculate above ; lobes 3-5-dentate, acutish ; petiole 10-15mm. 

 long. Stem declinato-decumbent, radicant, gracile, uniflorous 

 at the top, about 5-12 cm. long ; cauline leaves shortly petiolate, 

 usually triparted into acuminato-lanceolate lobes. Flower 

 yellow, about 11mm. across. Sepals yellowish-green, often 

 dark-purple in back, about 3| mm. long. Petals patent, 

 cuneato-obovate, rounded at the apex, about 5 mm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Hime-umanoashigata (nov.). 



Hab. Osumi : Yaku-shima, wet places on mountains (T. 

 Makino I Sept. 1909). 



Potentilla fruticosa Linn. Cod. n. 3773. 



var. leucantha Makino, var. nov. 



Leaflets adpressed-piloso-villose above, adpressed-villose on 

 midrib and with finely anastomosing veinlets beneath, ciliated, 

 oblong or subobovato-oblong, apiculato-obtuse or acute at the 

 apex. Flower white, about 2-2i cm. in diameter. 



Nom. Jap. Hakuro-hai (nov.). 



Hab. Prov. Kai: Mt. Shirane (S. Goto I herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. 

 Univ. Tokyo, Aug. 1904), Mt. Kamanashi (K. Yazawa ! July 

 1909). 



This differs from var. davurica (Xestl.) Lehm. [=var. gla- 

 brata (Willd.) Makino.] by having the more hairy leaves. 



Geuxn pentapetala (Linn.) Makino, nom. nov. 



Dry as pentapetala Linn. Sp. PI. p. 501, et Cod. n. 3809. 



Dryas pentapetala folks pmnatis Gmel. Fl. Sib. III. p. 187, 

 n. 43. 



Sieversia anemonoides Willd. in Ges. Xaturf. Fr. Berl. Mag. 

 Y. (1811), p. 398; R. Br. in Parry's I. Yoy. App. p. CCLXXYI ; 

 Spreng. Syst. Yeg. II. p. 543 ; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. I. p. 176 ; 

 Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II. p. 25 ; Reg. et Til. Fl. Ajan. p. 82 («. Pal- 

 lasii) ; Fr. Schm. Reis. im Amur. u. Ins. Sachal. p. 127. 



Geum anemonoides -Willd. Sp. PL II. p. 1117; Pers Syn. PI. 



