70 [Vol. XVII, 



Observations on the Flora of Japan. 



{Continued from p. 62.) 



By 



T. Makino, 



Assistant in the Botanical Institute, Science 

 College, Imperial Universify of Tokyo. 



Tricyrtis afBnis Makino, sp. nov. 



Stem erect, 21-13 decim. high, slender, flexiioiis above, usually simple or 

 sometimes laxly ramose, hirsute with retrorse-patent rigid hairs. Leaves 

 oblong, oblong-lanceolate, or ovato-oblong, shortly acuminate or cuspidato- 

 acuminate, extremely shortly petioled or sessile, rounded and amplexicaul at the 

 base, crispate and scabro-ciliated on the margin, very thinly piloso-pubescent, 

 5-13 cm. long, 2-6 cm. wide, usually longer than the internodes, 7- sometimes 

 9-11-nerved, the basal ones usually spathulato-obovate or oblong, cuspidate, 

 embraced with the attenuated base, pale green, densely or laxly blotched 

 with dark-green round coarse spots. Flowers terminal and axillary, the 

 terminal ones 1-4, the axillary ones 1-2, pedicellate, 25-28 mm. across ; 

 the common rachis very short ; pedicels strict, piloso-pubescent with patent 

 hairs, 1-2 cm. long ; bracts scaly, subulate. Perianth recurved-patent, white 

 and loosely maculate wilh purple spots, or rarely immaculate, about 14-18 

 mm. long ; the outer ones oblong or oblong-lanceolate, mucronate, thinly pilose 

 externally, thick and gibbose and pilose at the base ; the inner ones nar- 

 rower, linear-lanceolate, mucronate, subhastato-lobed near the base, sessile and 

 shortly acute at the base. Stamens longer than the perianth, recurved above; 

 filament subulato-filiform, glabrous but papilloso-pubescent at the base ; anther 

 elliptical. Ovary glabrous, narrow, attenuated above, trigonous, many-ovuled; 

 style trifid, the branches recurved-patent, dichotomously cut dorwn one-half, 

 maculate with purple spots and protuberant-glandular. Capsule trigonous, 

 narrow, attenuated above, glabrous, dehiscing above, 23-27mm. long. Seed 

 obovate, compressed, brown, scalariform-reticulated in the faces. 



Rah. Prov. Tosa : Mt. Tebako (T. Maldno ! Aug. 1885), Sakawa 

 {T. Maldno\ 1885, IS89), Kusugami {T, Maldno\ Oct. 1892); Prov. 

 Shinano: Mt. Usuhi-toge {T. Maldno \ Sept. 1888) ; Prov. Echigo : Mt. 

 Shimidzu-toge (T. il/aHwo ! Sept. 1888) ; Prov. Shimotsuke : Nikko {T. 

 Malmo ! Aug. and Sept. 1901), Ne^r Ashio {T. MaUno ! Sept. 1901) ; 

 Prov, MuRASHi : Mt. Takao {T. Maldno ! April 1903). 



