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yew or Little Known Plants of Japan. 


the base; tube and spur densely pubescent inside; spur slender, usually curved, minutely puberulent outside, 
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6-8 lines long; lamina spreading, 3-lobed, 3-4 lines long, 5-6 lines broad; central lobe of the lamina again 
Rs lower of which are imperfectly developed and scale-like. Raceme terminal, loose, many-flowered, 4-7 inches 
4 | long; SE subulate, 2-3 lines long. Sepals nearly equal, ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 
concave, very minutely puberulent outside, smooth inside, 7-8 lines long, 3-4 lines broad. Petals oblanceolate, 
acuminate, about as long as or a little shorter than the sepals, 2 lines broad. Sepals and petals white and 
W a tinged with lilac outside. Labellum connate with the column in a broad tube, produced into a long spur at 
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2-lobed and with a small pointed lobule between, tinged with lilac on both surfaces, minutely puberulent out- 
side; disk with 5 longitudinal, interrupted, and yellow ridges, of which the outer 2 are smaller and often 
obsolete. Column short; rostellum bifid ; anther opercular, ovate, 2-celled ; pollinia 8, in 2 rows, 4 in each cell, 
clavate, flattened, yellow, affixed by a common’ caudicle to the gland of the rostellum. Ovar slender, curved, 
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tinged with lilac, 7-8 lines long. 一 F1. May. 
ReATAL SRA + 
3, 1882. They have been since kept in the Botanic Garden of the Imperial Univercity. 
Plate VII. Fig. 1, lower part of the plant; 2, upper part; 3, flower; 4, Hower with labellum cut vertical- 
ly; 5, transverse section of ovary; 6, sepals; 7, petals; 8, ower with sepals and petals cut away; 9, anther 
with operculum removed; 10, operculum ; 11, pollinia :—adl except 1 and 2 enlarged. 
I collected living specimens of this plant at the foot of Mt. Kirishima in the province of Hiuga on August 


