150 



Rhizome short or long. Leaves usually loosely tufted ; blade 1J-11 cm, 

 long, li-llcm. broad, multidentate, cordate or rounded at base; nerves 

 often impressed above. Eaceme several -many-flowered. 



Schizocodon soldanelloides Sieb. et Zucc. in AbhandL Akad, Munch. 

 III. p. 725, tab. 2, fig. 1 ; Miq. Prol. Flor. Jap. p. 258 : Maxim, in Mel. 

 Biol. VI. p. 273, et VIII. p. 20 ; Franch. et Sav. Enum. P3. Jap. I. p. 

 298 ; Gard. Chron. 3rd Ser. XIII. 1893, p. 415, fig. 59 ; Bot. Mag. tab. 

 7316 ; Drude in Engl, et Prantl Die Nat. Pflanzenfam. IV. 1, p. 83, fig. 50. 



Soldanella crenata Sieb. herb, ex Miq. 1. c. 



Soldanella sinuata Sieb. herb, ex Miq. 1. c. 



Hob. Widely distributed ovar Japan. 



forma alpina Maxim, in Mel. Biol. VIII. p. 20 ; Makino 1. c. 



Leaves small ; serrations obsolete. Scape short, few-flowered. 



Icon. Iinuma's Somoku-Dzusetsu IV. fol. 7 recto. 



This form is frequently passed into the typical one. 



£. ilicifolius (Maxim.) Makino 1. c. 



Rhizome long and slender, branched. Leaves often denser, usually 

 accompanied by died ones below ; blade ovate, rounded-ovate, or elliptical, 

 paucidentate, obtuse or rounded or truncaty-cordate at base, J-5 cm. long, 

 i-4i cm. broad ; nerves impressed above. Kaceme 1-5-flowered ; corolla 

 white (forma albiflora) or purple (forma jpurpureiflora). 



Schizocodon ilicifolius Maxim, in Mel. Biol. VI. p. 273, et VIII. p. 

 21 ; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 298; Drude 1. c. p. 83. 



Hab. Prov. Musashi : Mt. Yokami in Chichibu (T. Makino \ July 

 1888), Mt. Mitake (Z. Matsumura, S. Matsuda, and Y. Yabe ! Herb. Sc. 

 Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, May 15, 1900); Prov. Shimotsuke : Mt. Koshin- 

 zan (T. Makino \ Sept. 1901); Prov. Uzen : Mt, Gassan (B. Yatabe and 

 S. Okubo ! Herb. 1. c. July 23, 1887) ; Prov. Sagami : Mt. Futago in Hakone 

 (S. Okubo ! Herb. 1. c. Aug. 27, 1883), Mt. Komagadake in Hakone (& 

 Okubo ! Herb. 1. c. Aug. 24, 1884). 



This variety is sometimes hardly distinguishable from the typical one. 



Polygonatum Periballanthus (Franch. et Sav.) Makino in Bot. 

 Mag., Tokyo, XII. 1898, p. 228. 



Periballanthus involucratum Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. II. p. 

 524. 



Polygonatum involucrafam Maxim, in Mel. Biol. XL p, 844, 



