Plantae novae Japonicae. II. 11t 
fewer flowers. — Lamium humile Maxim. (Ajuga humilis Miq.) may be 
probably referred to this genus (Loxocalyx) as L. humilis. 
23. Phyllodoce (Parabryanthus) nipponica Makino, l. c., p. 131. 
Phyllodoce taxifolia Maxim., Rhodod. As. Or., p. 16, quoad pl. Jap. — 
Phyllodoce taxifolia Franch. et Sav., Enum. Pl. Jap. I, p. 286, et II, 
p. 427; Matsum. Cat. Herb. Coll. Se. Imp. Univ. (1886) p. 119, et 
Shokubutsu Mei-i (1895), p. 213, no. 2313; Sargent, For. Fl. Jap., p. 10; 
Yabe, Enum. Pl. Alp. Mount. Shirouma in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XVII (1903), 
p. 23, non Salisb. — Phyllodoce taxifolia Bois. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. V 
(1891), p. 914, ex parte? non Salisb. — A small evergreen shrub, 
6—30 cm high, ramose from the base; the main stems ascending, many 
branched, the largest one about 5 mm across at the base; branches 
erect, fastigiate, slender, thinly hispid and often puberulent, or sometimes 
only puberulent, griseo-umber or sooty sometimes griseo-castaneous as 
is the main stem, but ferrugineo-fulvous towards the extremities. Leaves 
patent or erect-patent, sparse, rather dense, shortly petiolate, linear, 
Shortly attenuated to the petiole at the base, obtuse at the apex, spinu- 
loso-serrulate with cartilaginous erect-patent minute teeth on edges 
throughout, tumid and with margins strongly reflexed to the midrib, 
glabrous, rigid, glossy, subundulato-convex and deep green and with a 
channel in centre above, slightly convex (but flat or slightly concave 
when dried) and paler and with a broad midrib densely covered with 
minute short white hairs excepting the base beneath, 4—15 mm long, 
1-2 mm across; petiole adpressed, glabrous, about ?/,—1 mm long, 
reddish in recent. Flowers turned laterally, rose-coloured, pedicellate; 
pedicels much exceeding the leaves, axillary, solitary, umbellately 1—9- 
aggregated at the top of branches, erect, gracile, papilloso-pubescent 
throughout, 1—3 cm long, bibracteate at the base; bracts opposite, 
Sessile, embracing the base of pedicels, very concave, broadly ovate, 
ddtuse, entire, glabrous, but ciliolated with white curved hairs on margins, 
thickish, 1-nerved, persistent. Calyx concave at the base, 5-sepaled; 
Sepals erect-patent, glabrous, subulato-ovate to elliptico-ovate, acutish or 
obtuse, minutely subciliated on margins, thickish, sub-3-nerved, 21/¿—3 mm 
long, Viridescent-purple or purple. Corolla broadly open-campanulate, 
about 21/,-times as long as the calyx, 5-7 mm long, about 5-6 mm 
across, glabrous, 5-lobed; lobes !/—1!/, as long as the tube, reflexed, 
Ovato-semiorbicular, rounded-obtuse at the apex. Stamens 10. included, 
rather equal in length, shorter than the corolla-tube, 21/,—3!|, mm long; 
filament filiform-linear, slightly dilated at the base, glabrous; anther 
Much shorter than the filament, oblong, truncate and bilobed at the apex, 
shortly biauriculate at the lower end, attached by its back to the filament, 
55-1 mm long; cells narrowly oblong, the mouth terminal and oblique. 
Style erect, straight, narrowly cylindrical, glabrous, included, slightly 
exceeding the stamens, 2—31/, mm long; stigma depressed, subcapitate. 
Ovary globose, minutely and densely papillose, 5-locular, 1 mm and a 
little more long; ovules numerous, oblong, attached to the thick placental 
