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in the province of Hizen, Kiusiu. The wild (?) form is similar 

 to the cultivated one in its habit. 



Pyrola japonica Siebold in Black's List Jap. PL in 

 Bonplandia, X. (1862), p. 93 ; Id. herb, ex Miq. Fric. Jap. in 

 Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Batav. I. (1863-64), p. 35, et Prol. FL 

 Jap. p. 98. 



Pyrola japonica Klenze, ex Alefeld, Fam. Pyrolac. in 

 Linngea, XXVIII. (1856), p. 57. 



Pyrola asarifolia var. japonica Miq. Prol. FL Jap. (1866— 

 67), p. 98. 



Pyrola asarifolia var. Miq. Prol. FL Jap. p. 365. 



Pyrola asarifolia Kanitz, Anthoph. Jap. (1878), p. 20, non 

 Michx. 



Thelaia asarifolia fol. obovatis Alefeld, 1. c. tab. 1, fig. 8 



Pyrola rotundifolia Siebold in Black's List Jap. in Bonpl 

 X. p. 93 ; A. Gray, Bot. Jap. in Mem. Am. Ac. Art. a. Sc. New 

 Ser. VI. (1859), p. 400 ; Miq. Prol. FL Jap. p. 98 ; Kanitz 

 1. c, non Linn. 



Pyrola rotundifolia Franch. et Say. Enum. PL Jap. I 

 (1875), p. 294, pro parte, non Linn. 



Pyrola rotundifolia a. albiflora Maxim, in Mel. Biol. VIII 

 p. 622 (1872); Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XI. (1897), p 

 450 ; Matsum. Ind. PL Jap. II. 2 (1912), p. 450. 



Pyrola rotundifolia a. genuina £. albo Herd. PL Radd. IV 

 1, p. 75, pro parte. 



Pyrola media Sieb. et Zucc. in Abhandl. Akad. Muench 

 IV. 3 (1846), p. 131 ; Mio. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Batav. I 

 (1863-64), p. 35, non Sw. 



Perennial, sometimes stoloniferous. Stem erect or ascend 

 ing, simple or few-ramose, triquetrous, sometimes elongate, with 

 a tuft of leaves at the top ; scales lanceolate. Leaves few to 

 several, distinctly petiolate, orbiculate to broad-ovate, obtuse 

 rounded or retuse at the apex, obtuse or rounded and slightly 

 decurrent to the petiole at the base, 7 cm. or less long, 6 cm. 

 or less wide, laxly minutely rnucronate on the subrepand mar- 

 gin, leathery in texture when fresh, but coriaceo-chartaceous 



