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CoiiMnelina communis Linn. var. hortensis Makino, 1894. 



Stem ascending, robust, more or less flexuous, ramose, glabrous, but 

 more or less tomentose along one side at the top ; internodes about 5-9 

 cm. long. Leaves lanceolate, but the superior ones often ova to-lanceolate, 

 acuminate^ curved backwards, entire, obtuse at the base, shortly petioled, 

 membranaceous, scabrous towards the margin above, 4-15 cm. long, 2-3 \ cm. 

 broad ; midrib slender ; veins more or less arcuate, several on each side, 

 with closely placed fine transverse venules between them ; petiole vaginate, 

 the upper ones often tubular, \\- nearly 2 cm. long, membranaceous, longi- 

 tudinally veined, ciliated-margined. Spathe solitary, opposite to leaves, 

 with a peduncle which is very slightly shorter than the spathe, orbicular, 

 cordate at the base, acute at the apex, complicate, forming a lunato- 

 semiorbicular shape, green, membranaceous, pilose towards the centre, about 

 3-3 J cm. long, minutely ciliated on and minutely scabrous-pubescent towards 

 the margin ; veins much arcuate, several, with obliquely traversed fine 

 numerous venules between them. Cyme included, glabrous, the upper 

 branch with one sterile flower and the lower with 3 fertile flowers. Petals : 

 the larger 2 exserted, ample, broad, thinly membranaceous, crispate, bright 

 blue. Stamens 6 ; 2 longer ones with normal oblong-lanceolate sagittate 

 anthers ; 4 shorter ones with yellow nectariform anthers ; filament filiform. 

 Ovary oblong, glabrous ; style filiform. Capsule oblong, glabrous ; carpels 

 2, membranaceous. Seeds dark, compressed, subtriangular, pitted-wrinkled. 



? Dissecocarpus polygamus var. latifolia Hassk. Commelin. Ind. p. 10. 



Nom. Jap. Oba-boshibana, oboshi, o-utsus7iibana, hon-ya-laro, aobana. 



Hab. Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, Bot. Gard. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ., cult. 

 (Herb. ! Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, July 19, 1879 ; T. Makino ! Aug. 

 1895). 



A cultivated form, much larger than the typical one. Blue juice of 

 their petals is used for dyeing in the manufacture of a kind of blue paper, 

 called Boshi-gami, or Ai-gami ; it is a famous product of Yamada- Village, 

 Kurimoto-gori, prov. Omi. 



Aspidium laserpitiifolium Mett. in Ann. Mus. bot. Ludg.-Bat. I. 

 p. 227 ; tab. 6, fig. Ill ; Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 340 ; Hook, et Baker Syn. 

 FiL p. 254 ; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. II. p. 233 ; Christ Die Frank, 

 der Erde, p. 240. 



Khizome creeping, stout. Stipes distant, shorter than the frond, 

 slender, hard, scaly towards the base, fulvous-stramineous when dried ; scales 



