Observations on the Flora of Japan 



(Continued from p. 167) 



By 



T. Makino. 



Mitella kiusiana Makino, sp. nov. 



Perennial, about 16cm. in height in flower ;■ stem erect at 

 the base and with fibrous roots, alternately branched, the 

 branches and the upper portion of the main stem then decum- 

 bent into the stolons, covered with ample vagina? of the base of 

 petioles below. Leaves long-petiolate, alternate, cordato-ovate, 

 acute or acuminate at the apex, with an open wide sinus at 

 the base, inciso-lobate with the acute-pointed ovate lobes and 

 cuspidato-acute-tipped ovate teeth, sparsely pilose on both 

 surfaces but hairs denser on nerves beneath, herbaceo-membra- 

 naceous, lJ-7Jcm. long, ljr-5jcm. broad ; nerves palmately 

 5-radiate at the base ; petiole slender, 4-12cm. long, hirsute 

 with reflexo-spreading hairs, vaginiferous at the base ; vaginae 

 oval to elliptical, membranaceous, entire, about 5-7mm. long, 

 the upper portion free. Scape erect, lateral, with a. few 

 aphyllous and foliiferous vaginae at the base, provided with a 

 minute vaginiferous leaf above, thinly pilose below, pilose 

 mixed with short glandular hairs above. Raceme simple, 

 narrow, erect, about 3cm. long in flower, loosely subnumerous- 

 flowered ; rachis subdensely covered with short glandular 

 patent hairs ; bract minute, much shorter than the pedicels, 

 rotund-obovate, slightly glandular-ciliolated at the truncato- 

 rounded apex, thinly glandular dorsally. Flowers about 

 8mm. in diameter, shortly pedicellate, yellowish-viridescent, 

 dispersedly minutely short-glanduloso-puberulent as well as 

 the pedicels externally ; pedicels erect-patent, 2-2|mm. long. 

 Calyx about 4mm. across ; tube subdepressedly short-obconical, 

 10-subcostate, adherent to the ovary within ; limb 5-fid with 



