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when dry, quite glabrous, dull green and often albo-variegated 

 along the nerves above, not shining, pale-green and usually 

 purpurascent beneath, dark-olivaceous (not dark-reddish and not 

 loose in epidermis on the under surface) when dried ; midrib 

 and veins delicate and prominent on both surfaces, and midrib 

 carinate below beneath ; main veinlets near the margin 

 loosely reticulated and subprominent beneath when fresh ; 

 petiole 51 cm. or less long, canaliculated with thin margins in 

 front, distinctly carinate dorsally with a flat face on each side, 

 viridi-purpurascent. Scapes erect, 1—6, 13—29 cm. long includ- 

 ing the raceme, rather laxly few-9-flowered. Flower yellowish- 

 pale. 



Nom. Jap. Ichiyaku-sd. 



Hab. JAPAN, common, shady places. 



This species much more approaches to the N.-American 

 Pyrola asarifolia Michx. { = P- rotundi folia var. asari folia 

 Hook.) and P. uliginosa Torr. than to P. rotundifolia 

 Linn. 



Pyrola rotundifolia Linn. Sp. PI. p. 396. 



var. incarnata (Fisch.) DC. Prodr. VII. (1838), p. 773 ; 

 Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II. (1844-46), p. 928 ; Maxim. Prim. Fl. 

 Amur. (1859), p. 190, et in Mel. Biol. VIII. p. 623 (1872); Fr. 

 Schmidt, Reis. im Amur. u. Ins. Sachal. (1868), p. 55 ; Regel, 

 Tent. Fl. Ussur. (1861), p. 323 ; A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 

 II. 1 (1886), p. 47 ; Herd. PI. Radd. IV. 1, p. 75, excl. syn. ; 

 Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XI. (1897), p. 450, excl. syn. ; 

 Paeib. Consp. Fl. Kor. II. (1900), p. 4 ; Matsum. Ind. PI. Jap. 

 II. 2 (1912), p. 450, excl. syn. 



Pyrola incarnata Fisch. ex DC. 1. c. ; Freyn in Oesterr. 

 Bot. Zeit. (1902), p. 401 ; Komar. Fl. Mansh. III. p. 195 

 (1905); Nakai, Fl. Kor. II. (1911), p. 70 ; Yabe, Enum. PI. S. 

 Manch. (1912), p. 103. 



Pyrola rotundifolia Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. 

 (1875), p. 394, pro parte, non Linn. 



Pyrola rotundifolia Korsh. in Act. Hort. Petrop. XII. 



