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at the apex, widely obtuso-truncate and entire at the base, 

 green and shining above, paler and thin-pubescent on the ele- 

 vated venation; petiole slender, with a narrow-fusiform inflated 

 spongy portion above the middle, at first slightly red, attaining 

 about 21 cm. long. Fruit deltoid, depressed, about 5 cm. 

 across through the upper spines, smooth, slightly pubescent 

 below, widely acute at the base, slightly emarginate and 

 stoutly short-beaked at the apex ; spines 4, subulate, very 

 sharp, very narrowly alate on both lateral margins when 

 dried, the upper 2 spines patent and hardly arcuate upwards, 

 the lower 2 spines reflexed about 45 degrees and scarcely 

 arcuate upwards, projecting from the lower side of the nut, \\—2 

 cm. long ; peduncle about 2—3 cm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Me-bishi (hoy.). 



Hab. Prov. MUSASHI : Koiwa-mura (T. Makino ! Sept. 

 24. 1913). 



A variety having the reddish petiole and 4-spined nut. 



Aquilegia Buergeriana Sieb. et Zucc. in Abh. Akad. 

 Muench. IV. 2 (1846), p. 183. 



var. ecalcalata Makino, var. nov. 



Petals ecalcalate. Otherwise as in the type. 



Nom. Jap. Maruzaki-yamaodamaki (nov.). 



Hab. Prov. SHIMOTSUKE : Nikk6 (T. Makino! July 19, 

 1913). 



This variety is very rarely found growing among the type 

 species. 



Ilex crenata Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 78. 



var. fastigiata Makino, var. nov. 



Tall ; branches dense and erect, fastigiate. Leaves as in 

 the type. 



Nom. Jap. Hbki-inutsuge (nov.). 



Hab. Prov. CHIKUGO : Kuroki-machi, cult. (T. Makino ! 

 Aug. 1911). 



A garden variety, very rare. 



