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TBE JOUBNAL OF JAPANESE BOTANY. [Vol. n. No. 2 



Nom. Jap. Shina-kuroguwai (K. Önüma), Ö-huroguwai (T. Makino). 

 Nom. Chin. Pi-tsi } Pi-ts? } Pe-tsi, Maa-tai, Pee-tii, Pu-tsai, Puh-tsi : 

 Wu-yu, Ti-lih. 



Hab. JAPAN, cultivated. 



Distrib. CHINA, wild and cultivated. 



Melandryum apetalum (Linn.) Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I. 

 (1842)， p. 326. 



Lychnis apstala Linn. Sp. PL p. 437 ； Willd. Sp. PI. II. (1799)， 

 p. 810 ； Wahlenb. Fl. Lapp. (1812), p. 135, tab. 7 ； DC. Proclr. I. 

 (1824), p. 386. exl. ß. ； Spreng. Syst. Veg. IL (1826), p. 421 ； Cham, 

 et Schlecht, in Linnaea, I. (1826), p. 42 ； Ledeb. Fl. Alt. IL (1830), 

 p. 186 ； Bunge, Enum. PL Alt. (1836), p. 38 ； Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. 

 I. (1840) p. 91， excl. ß. ； Toer. Er Geat, Fl. N. Amer. I. (1838-40), 

 p. 194, excl. ß. ； Hook, et Arn. in Beech. Vöy. (1841), p. 122 ； Pax 

 in Engl, et Pkantl, Nat. Pfl.-Fam. III. 16 (1889), p. 74. 



WaMbsrgella apstala Fries, Suroma Veg. Scand. p. 155. 



forma Okadai Mä 惑。， nov. 



Silene Okadai Makino, ined. 



Perennial, caespitose with flowering and sterile radical branches, 

 about 12-20 cm. in height in fruit ； rootstock short, thick, shortly 

 ramose ； roots loose, pale, tap-root thick. Stems about 1-3, simple, 

 erect, strict, slender bearing a flower at each top, pubescent \vith 

 recurvo-spreading short fine hairs ； nodes distant. Radical leaves 

 caespitose, accompanied by old membranaceous sheaths below, ob- 

 long-linear, long-attenuate d to the slender petiole towards the base, 

 shortly acuminate, entire and slightly ciliated, glabrous on both 

 surfaces, 5 - 10 cm. long including the petiole, 4-5 mm. broad, green ； 

 midrib slender ； 又 eins inconspicuous ； cauline leaves opposite, with 

 short sheaths, loose, linear, acuminate, largest in the lower ones, the 

 superior ones gradually decreasing in size, the uppermost ones very 

 small and about 4 mm. long, ciliated ； upper leaves pubescent on the 

 midrib beneath, but the lower glabrous. Mower terminal, solitary 

 nutant. Calyx 】arge， ovoid, ratlier cylindrical, finally inflated and 

 including the petals, 10-costate, pubescent (denser on costas), 



persistent, dark-purple-coloured on costas but greenish-niembrana- 

 ceous between the costas ； lobes depressed-deltoid, acutish, w bite-cilia- 

 ted. Petals 5， light purple, shgntly longer than the calyx, but shorter 

 than it in fruit ； lamina small ； unguis lmear-spathulate, very angustate 

 below. Stamens 10, slightly shorter than petals ； filament filiform ； 

 anther small, ovoid-rotund. Styles 5, erect, subnlato-filiform, about 

 3 mm. long. Capsule large, erect, ovoid -conical, glabrous, about \ - 

 exserted, about 17 mm. long, 10- nerved longitudinally, loosely anasto- 

 mosing' with delicate yeinlets between veins, 5-fid with mucronato- 

 obtuse-tipped deltoid valves at the mouth ； gynophore short, thick, 

 puberulent, 2 mm. long. 



- Noni. Jap. Takane-ma ntema (T. Makino). 



Hab. Prov. SHINANO : Mt. Sbiomi (K 丽 iiatsü Okada ！ July 

 28， 1914), Mt. Sendjo (Reizö Kono ! August 1914). 



