340 THE BOTANICAL MAG AZINI-. [Vo. xxvi. No. m. 



Ku-shan (iHlJj), Sept., (no. 4-8i) ; Ken-shan-mnn (HlUP!), 

 Aug., (nos. 497, 822); Sept., (no. 433); Oct., fnos. 553, 812). 

 Nom. Jap. Kitsune-no-mago. 



LIII. Verbenaceae. 



249. Caryopteris Mastacanthus Schauer in DC. Prodr. XI. 

 625; Bcnth. Fl. Hongk. 268; Bot. Mag. t. 6799; Forb. et 

 Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 263. 



Chi-ling m^), Oct., (nos. 358, 359); Nov.. (no. 303); 

 Ku-shan (Ellj), Sept., (no. 457); Ya-feng ({&Ji), vSept., (no. 

 459). 



Nom. Jap. Dangiku. 



250. C. nepetsefolia Max. in Mel. Biol. IX. 830 et XII. 

 524; Forb. et Hemsl. I.e. 264 ; = Teucn«m nepetsefolia Benth. in 

 DC. Prodr. XII. 580; Hemsl. in Journ. Bot. 1876, 208; S. 

 Moore in Journ. Bot. 1876, 138. 



Herb, perennial ? , attaining 5 or 6 dm., dull green, pubes- 

 cent, erect or often decumbent?, stem square, branching; leaves 

 on pubescent short petiole, shortly ovate or subtriangular, 

 obtuse, subtruncate or cuneate at base, grossly' creneate, sub- 

 glabrous both above and underneath, lowers axillary, solitar}', 

 somewhat showj', 1 cm. or more in diam., peduncles about 2 cm. 

 long, gracile, dense hair3% with 2 minute bracts a little above 

 the middle; calyx hairy, 5-lobtd, lobes subequal, slightly longer 

 than the tube, ovate, subacuminate, 10-nerved; corolla with 

 somewhat short tube, 5-lobed, lobes pubescent within, the 

 anterior largest, suborbicular, the lateral and posterior ones 

 subequal, subobovate, obtuse; stamens 4, exserted from between 

 posterior corolla-lobes, ascending, outer or lower pair slightly 

 longer, filament smooth, anthers confluent; style exceeding the 

 stamens, 2-parted above, smooth; ovarv hairy, obscurely 4 (?)- 

 lobed. 



I identify the present specimen with Carvopten's nepetse- 

 folia Maxim. This plant was once placed by Benthum in Teu- 

 crium, a genus of Lahiatx, but Maximowicz placed it in Cary- 

 opteris, a genus of Verhenacese. The largest lobe of corolla is 



