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lato-ovate, emarginate with ovatoorbiculate lobes, concave 

 above the base, keeled with a subcristate wing in the bach of 

 the convex portion ; unguis oblong-rectangular, 5-nerved ; the 

 lower one slightly shorter than the upper one ; lamina similar 

 to it of the upper one but slightly smaller ; unguis narrower, 

 lato-linear, 5— nerved ; lateral petals slightly shorter than the 

 lower one, spathulate, rounded at the apex, truncate at the 

 base, with a linear unguis which is equal to the lamina in length, 

 manifestly winged dorsally, the wing narrowly adnate below 

 but broad rounded-tipped and excurrent above ; calcar short, 

 straight, ovato-conical, obtuse, about f as long as the upper 

 petal and about 3J mm. long ; hypogynous gland projecting 

 into the calcar and shorter than it, linear, herbaceous. 

 Stamens 6 ; filaments united into 2 synemas, subulato-lanceo- 

 late, attenuated above, hyalino-membranaceous, 3-nerved, very 

 shortly 3— fid at the apex ; anther oblong, 3 to each synema ; 

 pollen yellow. Ovary linear, attenuated towards the style; 

 style about \ as long as the ovary ; stigma transverse, obtuse 

 or bifid at the both ends ; ovules orbiculate. Pod rather 

 loosely disposed on the rachis and with a patent or recurved 

 pedicel which is 2—6 mm. lcng, straight, linear or broad-linear, 

 attenuated above, with a persistent gracile style, not or 

 obscurely torulose, smooth, green, about 2§— 4cm. long, 4-6 mm. 

 broad ; valves not thick, delicately subnumerous-veined longi- 

 tudinally, fallen away when dehiscent separating from the 

 filiform replum. Seed many, lenticular, rounded, with a notch 

 at base, subacutely edged, shining, concentrically subtilely 

 impressed-puncticulate, 1§ mm. in diameter ; aril membrana- 

 ceous, broader and slightly longer than the seed, subemarginate; 

 funculus very short. 



Nom. Jap. Shima-kikeman (nov.). 



Hab. Yayeyama Archip. (Yasusada Tashiro ! herb. Sc. 

 Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, July-August 1887) ; Liukiu : Okinawa 

 (7. Tashiro I herb. ibid. April 1887), Isl. Obi (M. Miyajimal 

 herb. ibid. May 1900); Prov. Hizen: Peninsula Shimabara (Af. 

 Yawasakil). 



This species is allied to Corydalis platycarpa (Maxim.) 





