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the axis of albumen ; cotyledons plane, broad, foliaceous, 

 elliptical, nearly equal to the albumen in width and length ; 

 hypocotyl minute and short, terete, inferior, comes near to the 

 hilum. Flowers in February-March, and the fruits ripen in 

 same time or a little before it. 



Nom. Jap. Moku-reishi. 



Hah. Prov. Idzu (Z. Horiye !) ; Pro v. Hizen : Isl. Fukaye 

 (T. Makino \; S. Furukawal communic. Z. Tashiro); Prov. Mu- 

 sashi : Tokyo, cultivated (T. Makino !) ; Liukiu : Isl. Okinawa 

 (Y. Tashiro ! ; H. Kuroiwa ! ; J. Matsumural) ; Yayeyama 

 Archep. (T. Ito) ; Formosa: Kotosho (K. Miyakel). 



This species is found in the central and southern parts of 

 Japan, and distributed as far as the island of Formosa. The 

 descriptions of the female flower and fruit has hitherto not been 

 published. 



Corydalis (Capnoides) Tashiroi Makino, sp. nov. 



Biennial, flaccid, glabrous ; roots ramose ; stem long, erect 

 or diffuse, angulate, ilexuous, loosely ramose, attaining about 

 6 decim. in length. Leaves long-pctiolate, lato-ovate or ovate 

 in outline and attaining about lGcm. long, 12cm. broad, bi-tri- 

 pinnatisected, thin, glaucous beneath ; pinnae 3-2-jugate, peti- 

 olulate; segments usually very shortly stipitatc, obovatc, 

 rotund-oljovate, or ovate, obtuse, truncato-cuncate or cuueate 

 at the base, lobato-crcnate witli niucrcna'e and ovate to 

 rounded teeth, or lobulate, often bi- or tri-fid, |— 3 cm. long, 

 f.-2 1 . cm. wide; petiole .about 15 cm. long in the lower leaves. 

 Raceme terminal hut then becoming lateral by the growth of the 

 branch, erect, pedunculate, several- to subnumerous-flowered ; 

 rachis slender, attaining about 12cm long in fruit; bracts 

 ovate to lanceolate, cuneate at the base, attenuato-acuminate, 

 entire, thin, viridescent, fc—lOmm. Ion-, usually longer or 

 sometimes shorter than the pedicel. flown aboul L3 L5 mm. 

 long, shortly pedicellate, yellow. Sepals minute, caducous, sub- 

 reniform, eroso-dentate, hyalino-membranaceous, about 1 mm. 

 long, 1; nun. broad. Petals free below; tin- upper one; lamina 



