Are. 1909.] MAKING.— OBSERV. OX THE FLORA OF JAPAX. 71 



shortly acuminate. Flowers all axillary ; pedicel usually 

 longer than the leaves. Sepals villose. Fruit reflexed. 



Xom. Jap. Miyama-hakobe, Maruha-hakohe. 



Hah. Japan. 



Icon. Somoku-Dzusetsu, 1. c. 



This species conies near to Stellaria diversiflora Maxim, in 

 which the sepals are glabrous. 



var. sessiliflora (Yabe) Makino. 



Stellaria sessiliflora Yabe, Fl. Tsusim. in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, 

 XVII. p. 194. 



Pedicels very short. 



Xom. Jap. Ashinashi-hakohe. 



Hah. Prov. Tsushima (F. Yabe ! July 31, 1901). 



Chrysosplenium japonicum (Maxim.) Makino. 



Chrysosplenium alternifolium {i. japonicum Maxim, in Mel. 

 Biol. IX. p. 761 ; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. II. p. 019; 

 Franch. PI. David. I. p. 123, et in Xouv. Archiv. Mus. 3° ser. 

 II. p. 107. 



Chrysosplenium alternifolium /9. papillosum Francb. et Sav. 

 1. c. II. p. 355. 



Chrysosplenium alternans Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 182. 



Chrysosplenium alternifolium Miq. I'rol. Fl. Jap. p. 201 ; 

 Franch. et Sav. 1. c. I. p. 117. 



Hypogean stolon none, but furnished with sub-hypogeous 

 piloso-pubesccnt carnosc buds at the carnose base ol stems. 

 Seeds obovately short-subfusiform, ellipsoid, shining but very 

 minutely short-puberulent, about \ mm. Long. 



Xom. Jap. Yama-nckonomcso. 



Hah. Japan, common. 



This grows in rather day places. It differs from Chrys. 

 alternifolium Linn. 1>v not having the hypogean stolon but only 

 thick buds, and the smooth seed. 



Saxifraga madida (Maxim.) Makino in Bot. Mag., 

 Tokyo, XV. (1901) p. 11. 



