Dec. 1913. j t. MAKING.— OBSER VATTONS ON THE FLORA OF JAPAN. 255 



deltoid-subulate ; anther ovato-rounded. Styles usually 4, 

 erect, nearly equal to the stamens in height, subulato-filiform. 

 Ovary depressed-obconical, glabrous, green. Fruit globose, 

 about 4 mm. across. 



Nom. Jap. Ao-himeutsugi. 



Hah. Prov. MIKAWA : Arao in Taguchi-machi (G. Nagura ! 

 Apr. 18, 1902) ; Prov. BITCHU : Manzai-mura (Z. Yoshino ! 

 herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, April 24, 1907). 



Tricyrtis affinis Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XVII. 

 (1903), p. 70. 



var. albida Makino, var. nov. 



Stem erect, attaining 3 decim. high. Leaves often shorter 

 and denser. Flower pale. 

 ' Nom. Jap. Shirobana-hototogisu (nov.). 



Hab. Prov. TOSA : Mt. Tebako (T. Makino ! Aug. 1885). 



A mountain form. 



Tofieldia Yoshiiana Makino, sp. nov. 



A small perennial, stoloniferous ; roots fibrous, fasciculate, 

 not dense, stout-filiform, pubescent ; stolons few, hypogaeus, 

 gracile, with many nodes and membranaceous sheaths. Leaves 

 (radical) distichous, flabellately equitant, falcately linear and 

 ensiform, entire with smooth edges, thin but subtenacious, 

 glabrous, green, 3— nerved, 5— 8| cm. long, 3-4| mm. broad, 

 sheathing towards the base ; margins of the sheath very 

 narrowly scarious. Stem erect, gracile, green, with 2 leaves, 

 the upper leaf reduced, smaller and narrower. Raceme erect, 

 slightly exceeding the leaves in height, subnumerous-flowered, 

 about 4i| cm. long in fruit ; rachis gracile, glabrous, viridescent, 

 straight ; bract minute, deltoid-subulate, acute or subobtuse, 

 entire, subcarinate dorsally, few-nerved, glabrous, viridescent, 

 2— 2\ mm. long, the lowest one sometimes larger and lanceolato- 

 subulate, about 7 mm. long. Flowers pedicellate ; pedicels 

 erect-patent, setaceous, viridescent, glabrous, 5—15 mm. long in 



