dec. 1010.] MAKINO.-OBSERV. ON THE FLORA OF JAPAN. 297 



minate, gradually attenuated below, subsessile, attaining about 

 3jcm. long, Jem. wide. Flowers many, paniculate with cymes, 

 shortly pedicellate, about 2cm. across, caeruleo- violaceous ; 

 pedicels very narrowly alato-angulate, somewhat longer or 

 shorter than the flowers. Sepals 5, linear, acuminate, entire, 

 slightly shorter than the corolla. Corolla very deeply 5-parted ; 

 segments ovato-lanceolate, acuminate w T ith a sharp point, 

 about 11— 14 mm. long; glands 2, apartly placed, linear- 

 oblong, margined with fimbriato-villose hairs excepting the 

 upper end. Stamens 5, slightly more than one-half as long as 

 the corolla ; filament linear-filiform ; anther narrowly oblong, 

 retuse at the apex, bilobed at the base. Ovary about equal 

 to the stamens in height, narrowly oblong-fusiform ; style none; 

 stigmas 2, very short and broad, semiorbicular, reflexed. 



Nom. Jap. Murasaki-semburi (T. Makino). 



Hab. Japan, not uncommon. 



Distrib. Siberia, China, Mandshuria and Corea. 



Asarum (Hetcrotropa) asaroides (Morren et Decne.) 

 Makino, nom. nov. 



Heterotropa asaroides Morr. et Decne. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 2 

 ser. II. p. 135, tab. 10 (1834); Graham in Bot. Ma-, tab. 3746 

 (1840); Hook, in Bot. Mag. tab. 4933 (1856) ; Van Houtte, 

 Fl. des Serres, XII. (1857), p. 99, tab. 1231. 



Asarum Thunbergii Al. Braun, ' Index Sem. Berol. App. 

 (1861), p. 13'; Duchartre in DC- Prodr. XV. 1 (1864), p. 427; 

 Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. II. (1865-66), 

 p. 133 ; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. VIII. p. 404 (1871); Franch. et 

 Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. (1875), p. 418 ; Leveille, Aristol. Extr.- 

 Orient. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France (1909), p. 611. 



Asarum virginianum Thunb. Fl. Jap. (1784), p. 190, non Linn. 



Nom. Jap. Maruba-kan-aoi (T. Makino). 



Hab. Japan. 



Kraunhia sinensis (Sims) Makino. 



Glycine sinensisSims, Bot. Mag. tab. 2083; Bot. Reg. tab. 650. 



