March loir,.] Tm MA KINO. - OBSER VA TIONS N THE FL OR A OF J A J '. I N. 5 < i 



Makino : Oct. 28, 1894 and Aug. 1899 ; G. Nagdra ! Sept. 29, 

 1896). 



This species seems to come near Scleria tessellata Willd. 



Sanguisorba albiflora Makino, nom. nov. 



Sanguisorba obtusa ,3. albiflora Makino in Bot. Mag., 

 Tokyo, XXI. (1907), p. 154, repr. p. 27. 



? Sanguisorba canadensis var. media Maxim, in Mel. Biol. 

 IX. p. 151, quoad pi. Jap. 



Flower white, sometimes slightly purpurascent. 



Now. Jap. Shirobana-tbuchisb . 



Hah. JAPAN, northern, alpine mountains. 



Utricularia Nagurai Makino, sp. nov. 



Aquatic herb, floating, delicate, weak, rootless, glabrous. 

 Stems filiform, terete, cellular, smooth, viridescent, few-several- 

 radiate, horizontally spreading, simple or scantily ramose, 

 usually hardly flexuous, foliiferous throughout, about 3-18 

 cm. or more long, attaining ^ mm. in diameter, in shallow 

 water often partly penetrating to mud. Leaves very lax, 

 alternate, capillary, spreading, 2-divided, cuneate in outline, 

 viridescent, 1—16 mm. long ; divisions delicate, simple or 

 bifurcate with erect-patent simple or sometimes again bifur- 

 cate segments, one of them usually shorter ; segment subu- 

 lato-capillary, laxly and very minutely spinulose ; bladders 

 none or 1-4 to a leaf, small, i|-li mm. long, obliquely broadly 

 ovate, compressed,, on very short gracile stalk, attached to edges 

 of leaves and not axillary, the mouth with branched long 2 

 hairs and a few simple hairs. Scape 1 or few-fascicled, erect, 

 about 12|cm. or less high including the raceme, capillar}', 

 terete, smooth, glabrous, dull green, sometimes with an empty 

 short broad truncate or obtuse entire or subcrenate mem- 

 branaceous green bract above. Raceme erect, short, §— 2§ 

 cm. long, laxly 1-3-flowered ; rachis capillar}^, glabrous ; bracts 

 embracing the base of pedicels, short, broad, rounded or retuse 

 at the apex, membranaceous, delicately few-nerved, green, about 

 1 mm. or less long. Flower small, bright yellow, open 



