86 BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. [Voi. xvii, 



times entirely white ; calcar oblong or oblong-cylindrical, rounded at the top, 

 horizontal, straight or curved upwards, 5-10 mm. long. Anther-appendages 

 angustato-linear ; connective-tip deltoid-ovate or lato-ovate, obtuse. Ovary 

 ovoid-elliptical, glabrous ; style a little longer than the ovary, clavate, slightly 

 geniculate at the base; stigma obovate, shortly beaked. Capsule elliptical, 

 obtuse at the top, 8-9 mm. long, glabrous, equal to or longer than the 

 persistent calyx. (Seeds obovoid, smooth, brown, li mm. long. Flowers 

 April. 



Nom. Jap. Ke-maruhasmnire. 



/3. glabra Makino. 



Viola Keiskei herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, et Cat. Herb. Coll. 

 Sc. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, (1886) p. 17, non Miq. 



Viola Keishei a. typica Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XVI. (1902) 

 p. 132, excl. syn. 



Quite glabrous. 



Nom. Jap. Maritha-sumire. 



This species is not uncommon. It differs from Viola Keiskei Miq^ 

 (Id. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 85 ; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 734.), principally by 

 the habit of being estoloniferous. In Tokyo, it is commonly found. 



Viola Keishei Miq. is probably a form of V. hirta Linn. 



Vioia (Nomimium) Tanakaeana Makino, sp. nov. 



Acaulescent ; rhizome erect, inarticuiated, white ; main roots few, slender, 

 with fine rootlets. Leaves long-petiolate, deltoid-lanceolate, attenuated 

 above, acutish at the apex, aurlculate with ovate lobes, with an open and 

 deep sinus, depressed-crenate, membranaceous, equally pubescent with minute 

 short white hairs above, glabrous beneath, 3-7 cm. long, l|-2i cm. wide after 

 anthesis; petiole very slender, longer than the blade, wingless, glabrous, attain- 

 ing 13i cm. in length after anthesis; stipules adnate below, pale, membrana- 

 ceous, loosely ciliated, 3-6 mm. long, the free portion subulate and acuminate. 

 Peduncles 1 to few, gracile, puberulent above, bracteate above the middle ; 

 bracts 2, subulato-linear, about 4 mm. long. Sepals lanceolate, acute, 

 entire, viridescent, thin, pellucid towards the margin, 3-nerved ; the basal 

 auricles roundish, entire, glabrous. Capsule elliptical, glabrous, 5mm. long, 

 viridescent, mottled with purple. 



Hah. Prov. Shinano : Mt. Komagadake {K. Tanaha T Sept. 25, 1902). 



Though the flowers are not yet seen, it is evidently a good new 



