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ovatis acutis herbaceis, glabrescentibus integerrimis;lamina ambitn renifor- 
mia, fere ad basin palmato-5-partita, segmentis cuneatis acute angnsteque 
3-5-incisis, laciniis ultimis lanceolatis acutis, supra minutissirae puberula, 
subtus pallidiora ad venas tantmn adpresse hirsutula. Peduncnli folia multo 
superantes, pedicellis fructiferis cernuis, bracteis ovatis acuminatis instructi. 
Flores cm. in diametro ; sepala obloDga v. ovato-elliptica ， aristata, 6- 
nervia, extus ad nervos adpresse pubemla, intus glabra ; petala purpurea ， 
sepala multo snperantia, obovata, integra, intus ad basin barbata, supra 
basin pilosa. Filamenta basi abrupte dilatata ciliata，stylos subaequantia ; 
antherae ellipticae. Ovarium villosum, stylis liberis tan turn supra medium 
stigmatosis. Fructus 3^ cm. longus，valvis puberulis, apice basique hirsutis. 
Semina ovalia, opaca, minutissime impressopimctata. G. pratense, Iinuma 
Soomoku-zusetsu XII, t. 45. (Hakusan-furo). A. G. Sieboldi, Maxim, cui 
affinis, differt foliorum laciniis acutioribus, caulibns foliisque fere glabres¬ 
centibus, stipulis connatis majoribus, petalis pilosis. 
Hab. in japonia : prov. Shinano, monte Asama leg. C. Owatari anno 
1894. FI.et fr. Augusto. 
Observations on the Flora of Japan. 
〈Continued from 118.) 
By 
T. Makino, 
Assistant in the Botanical Institute, Science 
UoUege, Imperial Lrmverdty of Tokyo. 
Rumex (Lapathum) Dai WOO (Sieb.) Makino nom. nov. 
Eobust perennial, attaining about 1| m. in height. Roots thick, 
yellow. Stem stout ， erect, simple, flexuous, striato-silicate, fistulous, glabrous, 
but often pubescent under the nodes, often tinged with rose-purple colour. 
Leaves alternate, ample, petioled, gradually diminishing in size and trans¬ 
ferring into bracts, oblong-ovate, bat ovate-lanceolate in the above ones, 
broadly ovate to ovato-oblong in the radical ones，obtuse or acutish, broadly 
