Observations on the Flora of Japan 



(Continued from p. 50.) 



By 

 T. Makino. 



Glaucidium paradoxum Makino, sp. nov. 



Perennial, attaining about 35cm. in height. Stem erect, 

 simple (or ramose ?), very thinly puberulent with curved hairs. 

 Leaf (cauline) solitary, petiolate, situated in the middle of stem, 

 spreading, large, cordato-reniform in outline with a deep and open 

 sinus, 5-fid, thinly membranaceous, shining, nearly glabrous but 

 thinly pubescent on the nerves and somewhat bullate above, 

 pubescent with curved hairs on the nerves beneath, about 15cm. 

 long, 16cm. broad ; lobes deltoid, acuminate or acute with a 

 mucronate tip, coarsely and subunequally dentato-serrate with 

 mucronato-deltoid teeth ; main nerves 5 and palmate ; veins 

 loose, erect-patent or patulous ; veinlets loose, coarsely tetra- 

 penta- or hexa-gonally reticulated ; petiole stout, pubescent 

 with curved hairs, about 2\ cm. long. Bract large, solitary, 



sessile, cordato-orbicular, coarsely and unequally serrato-dentate 

 with mucronato-deltoid teeth, texture venation and hairiness, 

 as in the leaf, about 8cm. long, 8 Jem. broad. Peduncle nearly 

 erect, about 5cm. long, thinly pubescent with curved hairs. 

 Flower solitary (or geminate ?) terminal, showy, white, about 

 6cm. in diameter. Sepals 4, 2-serial, large, patent, obovoid- 

 oval, about 3cm. long, 2J-3em. broad. Stamens numerous, 

 attaining about 5mm. long ; some of them (in my specimen) 

 passed into a stipitate carpel and a subpetaloid carpel with 

 a sessile stigma ; filament filiform, but cuneato-spathulate 

 above, glabrous ; anther ovato-oval, with arcuate and linear 

 cells, nearly lateral but scarcely introrse ; connective con- 

 spicuous, continued to the filament. Carpels 4 (2 of them 

 abnormal and not ovuled) closely placed, nearly free, erect, 

 sessile, oval or oblong-ovoid, slightly puberulent, thickish-walled, 

 3-4 mm. long ; stigma sessile, capitate ; ovules several, 2-serial, 



