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-cylindrico-ellipsoideirn glabram 1^-mm. longum ] mm. latum ; stylus filiformis 

 2 cm. lougus glaber. Capsula 2-valvata 12 mm. longa 4-spernia, retinaculis 

 acutis ; semiiia oblouga 2:] mm. longa 1J mm. lata adpresso-hirsuta valde 

 complanata. 



HAB. Rankauzan, a:l 4,600 p^d. alt., leg. 13. HAY ATA, Mai. 1916. 



Near 8. flexicaulis HAY. ; but differs from it in the very much smaller 

 leaves. 



Strobilanthes Tashiroi HAYATA sp. nov. Herba; ca'ilis basi reirens ad no.los radicans 

 sxirsum ascendens, parte ascendent! 25-30 cm. 1 nga, tetrngonus snbglaber. FoHa opposita 

 oblongo-lanctolata vel lanceola'.a 8-9 cm. longa 3 cm. lata apice acnminata b.isi subito vel 

 gradatim ad petiolnm abenn'.ia margine obscure et lenuiter seiTulata vel subintegra utraque 

 pagine subglabra subtus ad venas tenuiter Lirsuta membranacea. Flores racemosi, racemis 

 pauciflorntis terminalibus, pedicellis 1-2 mm. longis, bracteis singulis bracteolis duabiis instructi, 

 bracteis lineari-spathulatis 13mm. longis; bractoolis lintaribus calycem in longitudine reqnanti- 

 bus 1 cm. longis 1.J mm. latis obtusis hirsiitis. C'a'yx 2-partitus parte' snperiore 3-fida, parte 

 inferiore 2-fida, segmentis 13mm. longis pauce hirsutis. Corolla campanulata 2 cm. longa, limbo 

 5-lobato. S'amina didynama, filamenlis hirsutis. Stylo glabro. Discus 1 mm. longus infra 

 ovarium insitus ; ovarium obovoideo-cylindricum glabrum 2] mm. longum. Capsula 13mm. 

 longa glabra 4-sperma, retinaculis linearibns 3mm. longis aeuminatis; stmina vaMe complanata 

 2| mm. longa brevissime hirsuta Ig-mm. lata. 



HAB. Loo-choo : Okinawa jima, leg. Y. TASHIRO, Mart. 18S7. 



Sjmewhat resembles 6'. formoxanus MOORE ; but differs from it in the total absence of the 

 bracts in the much narrower linear calyx-lobes and in. the much thinner smaller leaves. 



Jituiyia NEES. 



Rungia chinensis BENTH. Fl. Hongk. p. 266 ; DUNN et TUTCHEB Fl 

 Hongk. et Kwarsgt. p. 200. 



HAB. Raisha, leg. U. FAUBIE, Mart. 1914, No. 725. 

 New to the flora of Formosa. 



Dicliptera Juss. 



Dicliptera uraiensis HAYATA sp. nov. Herba basi suffi-utesceus ; caulis 

 ramosissimnSj ramis gracilibus tenuiter hirsutis. Folia opposita membranacea 

 lanceolata 7 cm. longa 1 J- cm, lata apice acumiuata ad surnnmrn obtusa basi 

 obtusa margine obscure crenata vel undulata utraque pagine tenuiter hirsuta, 

 petiolis .1 cm. longis. Flores quasi-cymosi, cymis termiualibus ; bracte^e oppo- 

 site lanceolate apice obtuste basi rotnudatae 10-12 mm. longee 4 mm. latee 

 intus glabrte extus hirsutaa margiue ciliolat?e flores sessiles 2-4 includentes; 



