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tical, thinly pilose, about 3 mm. long. Petals longer than the sepals, 

 oblong, 4mm. long. Stamens shorter than the sepals. Ovaries in the 

 elliptical head. 



Hah. Frov. Shinano : Mt. Yarigadake near Mt. Shiromiia {K. Tanaha ! 

 Ang. 1903). 



New to the Japanese Flora. The radical leaves resemble those of 

 some form of Hydrocotyle rotundifolia Roxb. 



Zygadenus (Anticlea) japonicus Makino, sp. no v. 



Perennial, 12-24 cm. in height. Bulb tunicate, ovoid, elongated into a 

 neck above, 6-10 mm. across ; the outer coat membranaceous, nigrescent, sub- 

 fibrose above, roots fibrous, white. Leaves light green, not glaucous ; radical 

 ones 3, shorter than the stem, recurved-erect-patent, linear or broadly linear, 

 gradually narrowed bebw, subacute or obtuse, keeled, 8-19 cm. long, 4-10 mm. 

 broad; the nerves close. Stem 1, erect, strict, often provided with a reduced 

 bract-like leaf in the middle or above it, and with a basal leaf which is 

 shorter than the radical leaves. Eaceme simple or often with 1 or 2 

 branches below, erect, shorter than the stem, laxly flowered, 2^-12 cm. long, 

 li-3 cm. wide ; rachis strict or subflexuous, light green ; bracts subulato- 

 lanceolate to orbiculato-ovate, acuminate or subacute, embracing the pedicel 

 and longer or shorter than it, viridescent tinged with purple colour, some- 

 times slightly scarious on the margin, 3-25 mm. long. Flowers 8-12 mm. 

 across, hermaphrodite, but those of the top of the raceme and all of those 

 of branches male, pale-yellowish, viridescent and often tinged vx^ith purple 

 extei nally ; pedicel erect-patent, strict, light green shaded with purple, 

 2-15 mm. long. Perianth patulose or erect-patent, suberect after anthesis, 

 7-Smra. long, the base obconical and adnate to the ovary; segments 

 elliptical to oblong in the outer ones, subrhombeo-ovate or narrowly sub- 

 rhombeo-ovate and attenuated into a broad unguis below in the inner ones, 

 obtuse, subdiaphano-margined, adnate with a large emarginato-obcordate 

 viridescent-yellow gland above the base internally, 2^-4 mm. broad, about 

 7-nerved, the inner ones hardly longer than the outer. Stamens shorter 

 than the perianth and -| the length of them ; filameus dilated to the deltoid 

 form towards the base ; anther ovato-orbicular, cordate at the base, purplish; 

 pollen yellow. Ovary conical, attenuated towards the style above, adherent 

 to the perianth-base at the base, 3-localar, about ll-l9-ovuled in each 

 loculament ; styles 3, a little lower than the perianth, uncinato-recurvo- 

 patulous, slenderly attenuated towards the stigma terminal oblique simple 



