58 BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. [Voi.xvii, 



Dianthus (Carthusianastmm) shinanensis (Yatabe) Makino in sched. 



herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, (1899). 



Dianthus harhatus var. shinanensis Yatabe in sched. herb. Sc. Coll. 

 Imp. Univ. Tokyo, (1892), et in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, VI. (1892) p. 132. 



Dianthus Cartliusianorum linuma Somoku-Dziisetsn, VIII. fol. 24 

 verso, non Linn. 



Perennial, 3-7 decim. high. Stem erect, ascending at the base, slender, 

 terete, usually pubescent-scab erulous above ; node elevated ; internodes 

 about 2-7J cm. long. Leaves erect-patent or spreading, longer than the 

 internodes, linear, acuminate with an acutish point, gradually attenuated 

 below into a narrow petiole, glabrous, scabrous-margined, green, 3 or 

 5-nerved, about 3-9 cm long including the petiole, 3-7 mm. v*ade ; petiole 

 nervate, dilated and shortly connate at the base. Inflorescence dichoto- 

 mously short-branched, fasciculately dense-fiowered. 3J-7 cm. across, with 

 a flat top ; peduncles short ; floral leaves linear, or setaceo-linear, scarious 

 on the basal margin, shorter than the flower. Flowers very shortly 

 pedicellate, 12-18 mm. across, purple ; bracts 4, shorter than the calyx, 

 oblong or narrowly oblong, long-setaceo-acuminate, narrowly scarious and 

 ciliated margined, setas scabrous. Calyx narrowly cylindrical, glabrous, 

 finely striate, 5-fid, 16-21 mm. long ; lobes erect, unequal in length, 

 deltoid-subulate, sharply tapering, ciliated, closely 5-9-nerved. Petals 5, 

 long-unguiculate ; limb patent, subrhombeo-caneato-orbicular, irregularly 

 denticulate on the front margin, barbulate below, 6-8 mm. long, 5-8 mm. 

 wide ; unguis slender, 2i-3 times as long as the limb. Stamens 10, 

 shorter than petals; filament filiform, glabrous; anther oblong-linear, 

 Styles 2, filiform. Ovary shortly stipitate, cylindrico-oblong, about 6 mm. 

 long. Capsule cylindrical, equal to the calyx in height, about 1| cm. 

 long. Seed broadly ovate, tapering at apex, compressed, black. 



Nom. Jap. 3Iiyama-nadeshiko, shinano-nadeshiho. 



Icon. linuma's S5moku-Dzuseteu, VIII. fol. 25 recto, no. 24 (flowers 

 laxer) sub Hachijo-nadesJiiko (nom. mala). 



Hah. Prov. Shixano (Herb ! Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo), Mt. Toga- 

 kushi. (T. lnui\ Aug. 8, 1897), Mt. Shirouma-dake (F. Yahe\ herb. ibid. 

 Aug. 25, 1902); Prov, Kai : Yunosliima (2^. 7?^^a' and F. Ashizaiual July 

 1895). 



Dianthus (Caryophyllastrum) nipponicus Makino, sp. no v. 

 Dianthus Seguieri Savatier in linuma's Somoku-Dzusetsu, ed. 2, VIII. 

 fol. 24 recto, non Vill. 



