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irregularly repand-crenate, fleshy; lateral veins erect- patent, about 5-7 

 on each side ; veinlets copiously anastomosing ; petiole 5-10 mm. long. 

 Corymb terminal, 3J-4 cm. across, flatly rounded at the top ; peduncles erect- 

 patent, bracteate ; pedicles usually slightly shorter than the flower. Flowers 

 dense, about 5 mm. in diameter, yellowish-green. Sepals 5, minute, ova to- 

 lanceolate, acutish, 1-nerved, herbaceous, green, about lj mm. long. Petals 

 5, erect-patent, connate at the very base, oblong-lanceolate, acute, entire, 

 thin, 1-nerved, about 5J mm. long. Stamens 10, slightly shorter than the 

 petals, oppositipetalous ones inserted to the inframedia of petals ; filament 

 filiform ; anther ovato-orbicular. Hypogynous scales 5, minute, obovato- 

 spathulate, truncate at the top. Ovaries 5, erect, elliptical, shortly con- 

 tracted at the base ; style erect, shorter than the ovary ; ovules minute, 

 oblong. Follicles 5, erect, a little longer than the persistent petals, oblong- 

 elliptical, gradually attenuated towards the base, "acute to warts the short 

 and persistent style above ; carpel thin. Seeds cylindrical-oblong, more or 

 less enlarged above ; coat membranaceous, loose, shortly beak-like at the apex. 



Nom. Jap. Ao-benkeL 



Hab. Prov. Tosa : Kamibun-mura in Takaoka-gori {T. Makino \ 1884, 

 1885). 



It grows in grassy places at the foot of mountains, and it comes 

 between Sedum verticillatum Linn., and $. sordidum Maxim. 



Gymnadenia Chidori Makino in sched. herb. 1894. 



Habenaria (Gijmnadenia) Chidori Makino in Notes on Jap. PI. XV, in 

 Bot. Mag., Tokyo, VI, 1892, p. 48, et Id. XVIII, 1. c. VII. p. 134 ; Yatabe 

 Iconogr. fl. Jap. I, 3, p. 225, tab. LV. 



Nom. Jap. Hina-chidori. 



Hab. Prov. Tosa : Nanokawa (K. Watanabe ! 1890). 



Swertia Swertopsis Makino Bot. Notes from the Author's Priv. Cabin. 

 II, p. 33. 



Sivertopsis umbellata Makino Illustr. fl. Jap. I, No. 11, p. 1, tab. 

 LXVI ; in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, VIII, p. 435. 



Swertia umbellata Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, VIII, 1894, p. 436 : 

 E. Gilg in Engl, et Prantl Natiir. Pflanzenfam., Suppl. 1897, p. 283. 



Nom, Jap. Shinonomeso. 



