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densely flowered, cylindrical; bracts ovate, acute or acutisch, lower than the 

 flower, quite green. Flowers pedicellate, bi-bracteolate, the inferior ones 

 often long-pedicellate and several-bracteolate ; the bracteole linear-lanceolate, 

 or oblanceolate, tapering above. Sepals subulate-lanceolate, tapering above, 

 viridescent. Petals patent, angustato-oblanceolate, acute, twice as long as 

 sepals, white. Stamens a little longer than the corolla ; filament filiform ; 

 anther yellow. Hypogynous scales minute, rectangular-spathulate, truncate 

 at the top. Ovaries upon a very slightly elevated receptacle, erect, oblong- 

 ovate, narrowed below, gradually attenuated into a short style above ; ovules 

 many, minute, cylindrical. Follicles erect, ova to-oblong, attenuated at both 

 ends, often rose-coloured. Seeds cylindrical- oblong, slightly enlarged above. 



Umbilicus malacophylliis vel U. stamineus Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 89, 

 non DC. et Ledeb. 



Cotylendon malacophylla Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 159. 

 non Pall. 



Cotylendon malacophylla var. Japonica Franch. et Sav. 1. c. II. p. 365. 



Sinqtia, vulgo Ikingusa et livarenge Kgempf. Amoen. Exot. p. 912. 



Hab. Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, Bot. Gard. Koishikawa, cultivated (Herb. ! 

 Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Oct. 15, 1880, Nov. 1888; T. Makinol Nov. 

 1893); Prov. Sagami : Itabashi near Odawara {T. Makinol Nov, 1901). 



The leaves are manifestly obtuse and quite aesious-glaucous without 

 admixture of other colour. The radical rosulate leaves mostly remain with- 

 out perishing during winter. From above-mentioned characters, this species 

 differs apparently from Cotyledon malacophylla Pall. The colour of leaves, 

 which give a peculiar appearance to this plant, is not recognizable upon 

 dried specimens, therefore this and C. malacophylla Pall., were frequently 

 confounded. 



Cotyledon (Umbilicus, Orostachys) malacophylla Pall. ; Willd. Sp. 

 PI. II. p. 756 ; Pers. Syn. PI. I. p. 510 ; Sprang. Syst. Veg. II. p. 438 ; 

 Maxim, in Mel. Biol. XL p. 723 ; Korshins. in Act. Hurt, Petrop. XII. p. 

 340 ; Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXIII. p. 282 ; Palib. Consp. 

 Fl. Korea? p. 93. 



Stem erect, short, simple, leafy, one-racemiferous at the top, 5-20 cm. 

 or more in height including the raceme. Leaves succulent, oblong to 

 narrowly oblong- spathulate, plane, acute at the apex, green, not cassious 

 or not glaucous; cauline ones sparse, spreading or erect-patent; radical ones 

 rosulate before anthesis, withering in winter, leaving a closely imbricated 



