(40) 
=. 48 NP Ee 
HA +A 
New or Little Known Plants of Japan. 

pubescent, about 2 lines long in flower, 6—7 lines long in fruit ; bracts at the base of the pedicel 3, imbricate, 
ovate, acute, pubescent, about 2 lines long. Perianth open-campanulate, yellow; segments 6, distinct, 
oblanceolate, apiculate, 10 lines long; the outer 3 auriculo-saccate at the base, pubescent outside, 3 lines 
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broad; the inner 3 auriculo-cordate and slightly pubescent at the base, narrower than the outer ones. 
Stamens 6, about as long as the perianth-segments, closely Me to the ovary, recurved towards ae 
apex; the outer 3 attached to the inner rim of the sac of the outer perianth-segments; the inner 3 attached 
to the base of the inner perianth-segments : filaments linear, tapering towards the apex; anthers versatile, 
2-celled, oblong, dehiscing longitudinally, 1 line long. Ovary smooth, subfusiform, triquetrous, 3-celled ; 
style columnar, triquetrous; its branches 3, bifid at the apex, glandular-papillose, recurved, the ultimate 
branches stigmatose along the inner siete. ovules numerous in 2 series in each cell, attached to axile 
placente, oblong-cylindrical, anatropous. Capsule lanceolate, septicidal, 3-valved, 9g—10 lines long, 22—3 
lines broad; its valves ovate in transverse section. Seeds subobovate, flattened ; testa dark-brown, few- 
nerved, minutely reticulate-rugose ; embryo minute, in a fleshy albumen, near the hilum.—Fl. August. 
Specimens of this plant in flower were collected by Mr. Kano Watanabe on August, 23, 1892, at 
Kokuson-yama in the province of Tosa; and specimens in fruit were collected by him on October 14, 
1891, at Dogamori-yama in the same province. This plant also grows near Shizuoka in the province of 

