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THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. 



Vol. V. September lo, iSgi. NOc 55. 



New or LiUfe Known Plants of Japan. 



No. lo. 

 Ryokichi Yatabe, Sc. D. 



Yatabea japonica, Maxim. 



Berber ideze. 



(Plate XXVUI.) 



Yatabea, Maxim. 



Flower-bud witli 3, small, green, caducous bractlets. Sepals 6 in 2 rows, 

 petaloid, oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate. Petals 6, 

 im.bricate, small, oblong, concave, emarginate, biglandulose near flie base. 

 Stamens 6, free, opposite the petals; anthers oblong, opening by 2 valves hinged 

 at the top. Ovary i, somewhat obconical, i -celled; stigma sessile, peltate, 

 convex; ovules numerous in several series, attached to a tliick parietal placenta, 

 amphitropous. Berry ovoid; seeds liumerous, oblong. — A Perennial herb 

 with creeping rhizom.es. Stem 2— leaved. Leaves teinate, witli long petioles; 

 leaflets palmately veined, lobed. Flowers on terminal peduncles, nodding, 

 pale- lilac. 



Yatabea Japonica, Maxim. 

 Nom. jap. TogahisJii sJibiua. \ if ^ -y -y a ^ -^ . 

 Yatabea japornca, Miximowicz, in litt, Mar. S, i888. — Porlupophylhun 



