,g.) BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. [Voi. xvi. 



Hub. Prov. Shinano: Mt. Togakushi (K. Matsu6ka\ July 1901). 



A rare species ; it comes near to PotentiUa Hookeriana Lehm., a 

 North-American species, but the flowers are fewer, leaflets more shallowly 

 serrate, and the tomentiim adpressed. 



Mazus Miquelii Makino nom, nov. 



Vandellia / japonica Miq. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. II. (1865-6) p. 

 118, et Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 50 ; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 346. 



Mazus japonicus Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XI. (1897) p. 391, et 

 XV. (1901) p. 96, non 0. Kuntze. 



Mazus rugosus /5 .? stolonifer Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 403, (1874). 



Mazus stolonifer Makino in List of Seeds, Bot. Gard. Imp. Univ. 



Tokyo, (1896) p. 17. 



Mazics rugosus /?. macrantJms Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. 



(1875) p. 344. 



Mazus rugosus y. rotundifolius Franch. et Sav. 1. c. 



Nom. Jap. Sagi-goke, hazena. 



Hah. Japan, widely distributed. 



forma albiflora Makino. 



31azus japonicus var. alhiflorus Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XT. 

 (1897) p. 391, et XV. (1901) p. 96. 



Nom. Jap, Sagi-sliiha. 



Hah. Prov. Sagami ; Musashi ; Awa (BoSHu). 



var. contractus Makino var. nov. 



Perennial, attaining about 5 cm. in height. Stem erect or ascending, 

 covered with leaves throughout, often rooting. Leaves contracted, closely 

 placed, opposite, reflexed, densely imbricated as collectively form a column 

 which is about li cm. in diameter, shortly petioled, orbicular or broadly 

 orbicular, rounded or emarginate at the apex, cordate or subcordate at the 

 base, paucidentate, attaining about 10 mm. long, 14 mm. wide, thickly her- 

 baceous, deep-green, shining, rugose. Eacemes terminal or axillary, very 

 short, few or several -flowered. Flowers smaller ; calyx thinly glanduloso- 

 pubescent below ; corolla purple. 



Nom. Jap. Zyakago-so. 



Hah. Prov. Musashi: Tokyo, rarely cultivated. 



This has a curious appearance, and was recently brought to Tokyo 

 from Nagoya, prov. Owari. 



{To be continued). 



