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Observations on the Flora of Japan, 



[Continued from p. 12.) 



By 



T. Makino. 



Assistant in the Botanical Institute, Science 

 College, Imperial University of Tokyo. 



Saxifraga japonica H. de Boissieu Saxifr. Jap. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 

 V. p. 667. 



Robust herb, attaining about 60 cm. in height. Rhizome thick, stout, 

 erector ascending, rooting. Basal leaves long petiolate, reniform-orbicular to 

 ova to- orbicular, cordate at the base, attaining 14 cm. across, unequally 

 dentate with deltoid teeth ; petiole attaining about 28 cm. in length. Panicle 

 pyramidal ; pedicel usually longer than the flower. Flower about 6 mm. in 

 diameter; petals white. Fruit (immature) 11 mm. long, erect, or cernuous, 

 or sometimes nutant. 



Norn. Jap, Ftiki-yukinoshila (T. Makino). 



Hob. Hokkaido (Herb.! 8c. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo.); Proy. Echigo : 

 Mt. Shimidzu-toge (T. Makinol Sept. 18S8) ; Pror. R[kuchu : Mt. Kuri- 

 koma (7 T . Mal;ino\ Aug. 23, 1890 ; S. lkeno\ herb. I.e., Aug. 23, 1890). 



This comes near to Saxifraga punctata Linn, and is found on mountains 

 in northern Japan. 



Chrysosplenium flagelliferum Fr. Schmidt var. tosaense Makino. 



About . r >-17 cm. high. Roots delicate. Innovations horizontal, sub- 

 hypogToous, few, filiform, often a little carnose towards the base, leafless but with 

 loosely alternate minute scales, about 1— 4J cm. long. Stem erect, simple, or 

 with 2--G branches dividing from the base, with reddish-fulvous hairs at the 

 basal portion and nodes. Leaves petiolate, flaccid, thin when dry, thinly 

 pilose ; basal ones subrosulate, reniform, crenate with 5-7 emarginate teeth, 

 4 mm.-lj cm. long, 5 mm -2 J cm. broad, veins loose and indistinct ; upper 

 cauline one none or 1, usually smaller than the basal ones; petiole about 2 cm. 

 in the longest one, narrow, more or less dilated at the base, pilose-villose with 

 reddish -fulvous hairs. Cyme ramose into 2 to 3 main erect-patent branches 



