ji-ly 1909.1 MAKINO.— OBSERV. OS THE FLORA 01' JAPAX 143 



tenuated and cuneate towards the base, very shortly calcarate 

 below t 1 e middle externally ; calcar erect-patent, straight or 

 hardly curved upwards, subulato-conical, slightly compressed, 

 about 1-2 mm. long. 



Xom. Jap. Murasaki-umezakiikariso (nov.). 



Hah. Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, cultivated. 



;'. aceranthoides Makino, var. nov. 



Leaflets ovate, ovato-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, cordate 

 at the base but obliquely sagitta to-cordate in the lateral ones, 

 very sparingly spitmloso-ciliated towards the base but entire 

 elsewhere, green and glabrous above, very thinly pubescent and 

 subglaucous beneath ; petiole as is the stem patently thin-pilose 

 but the hairs dense at the node. Panicle few-ramose or simply 

 racemose, pedunclcd ; rachis slender, glabrous. Flowers laxby 

 disposed, ecalcarate ; pedicel more or less longer or shorter than 

 the flower, erect-patent. Petals light-purple, but white towards 

 the base ; outer ones patent, ovato-lanccolatc, acuminate with 

 an obtuse or acutish point, about 9— 10 mm. long; inner ones 

 shorter than the outer, erect or connivent, obovato-cuneate, 

 rounded at the apex, attenuated below, narrowly concave ver- 

 tically in centre internally and strongly ridged and very ob- 

 scurely projecting below the middle externally, very angustately 

 involuted on the apical margin, about 8 mm. long, 5 mm. broad. 

 Genitals included. 



Xom. Jap. Umezaki-ikariso . 



Hah. Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, cultivated. 



Epimedium macranthum Morr. et Decne. in Ann. So. 

 Nat. Ser. 2, II. (1834) p. 352, tab. 13. 



Xom. Jap. Shiro-ikariso. 

 Hab. Japan. 



var. Mu8schianum (Morr. et Decne.) Makino. 

 Epimedium Musschianum Morr. et Decne. 1. c. p. 3f>3, non 

 Rot. Mag. tab. 3745. 

 Hab. J. -i pan. 

 This seems to me to stand apart scarcely Irom the tvpica. 



