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New or Little Known Plants of Japan. 
bracts subulate, 1 line long. Flowers nodding; pedicels minutely pubescent, 2 lines long; bracteoles in 
pairs, subulate, closely appressed to the base of the calyx, 1 line long. Calyx obliquely urceolate, 
more swollen on the upper than on the lower side, depressed, 5-toothed, greenish-white, 2 lines long, 
24 lines broad; teeth purplish, minutely hairy at the margin, the upper pair connate and very short, the 
lower ones distinct and ovate-deltoid. Petals purple, equal in length, 5 or 6 lines long. Standard witha 
greenish centre, broadly obovate or suborbicular, spreading at right angles to the rest of the flower, incurved 
at the upper cos short-clawed, 5 lines broad; claw cuneate, curved, about 1 line long. Wings 
free, obiquely oblong or subfalcate, obtuse at the apex, somewhat auriculate at the base on the upper 
side, about 2 lines broad; claw slender, curved, about 1 line long. Keel incurved, obtuse ; its petals falcate, 
cohering above the middle, claw about 12 lines long. Vexillary stamen free, the rest connate to 2 of 
their length “inl adherent to the keel at the base; filaments filiform, alternately somewhat longer and 
shorter; anthers equal, dorsifixed, oval. Ovary sessile, linear, smooth, surrounded at the base by a short annular 
disk, about 10-ovulate, 5 lines long; style inflexed, smooth, 2 lines long; stigma terminal, capitellate. 
This figure was drawn from a specimen cultivated.in the Botanic Garden of the Imperial University, 
where it was introduced from Luchu. It flowers in September in the Garden. It is also known as Sakko 
among gardeners. 
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