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THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. 
August 10, 1892. 


iNew or Little Known Plants of Japan. 
INO; 223. 
Ryokichi Yatabe, Sc. D. 
Polygonatum amabile, nov. sp. 
Nom. jap: Hime-narukoyur. ロメ ナ ル ュ ミリ (Plate V11T.) 
(Order Liliacee,) | 
Rhizome creeping, marked with circular scars left by decayed stems at the extermity of each annual 
growth. Stem terete, glabrous, dark-purple and variegated with greenish stripes and dots, enveloped at 
the base in a few membranaceous sheaths, articulated 1%4—1 inch above the base, 4 or 5 inches to less than 
a foot high, the lower half erect and bare of leaves, the upper part somewhat arching and with several leaves; 
internodes Between the leaves zigzag, 3---10 lines long. Leaves petiolate, alternate, distichous, subcoriace- 
ous, glabrous, ovate-lanceolate, subobtuse at the apex, rounded at the base, undulate at the margins, dark- 


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