J 905.] 



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Valeriana ruthenica Willd. Sp. Pi. I. p. 18J ; Pers. Syn. PI. T. p. 

 38 ; Bot. Mag. tab. 2325. 



Fedia ruthenica Willd. ex Ledeb. Fl. Rose. II. p. 427, non Mirb. 

 Patrinia ruthenica Jus?. 1. c. 



Patrinia coronata Fisch. ' Hort. Grorenk. ed. 2 (1812) p. 43.' 



Valeriana rupestris Uspenski, et Ledeb. Fl. Bops. TT. p. 42(>. 



Valerianella Intra Moench. ' Moth. p. 493.' 



Dwarf, about 9 cm. high in my specimen. Boot elongate, thick, black. 

 Radical leaves csespitose, numerous, attaining about 5 cm. long, thickish, 

 <dabrous but ciliated in long petioles, some elliptical and pinnati-parted or 

 pinnatifid with obtuse pauci-obtuso-dentate linear-oblong linear-obovate or 

 obovate lobes, and some spathulato-oblanceolate with irregularly dentato- 

 serrate margins. Stem erect, simple, bifariously pilose, naked from cauline 

 leaves in my specimen. Corymb small, about 2*cm. across in my specimen ; 

 branches pilose ; the inferior bracts opposite, pinnati-parted with linear 

 lacinite, ciliated ; bracteoles linear, obtuse, ciliated. Flower short-pedicellate, 

 yellow. Calyx short, with 5. semiorbicular lobes, much enlarged and cup- 

 shaped in fruit and crowned on it, strongly nervate. Corolla with 5 

 orbiculate lobes. Stamens 4, with the glabrous filiform filament and oblong 

 anther. Ovary broadly obovoid ; style erect, simple, included. Fruit 

 broadly obovoid. Ultimate bract adnate to the pedicel with the base, 

 ample in fruit, orbicular and obscurely 3-lobed, membranaceous, reticulato- 

 venose. 



Nom. Jap. Takane-ominaeshi (nov.). 



Hab. Prov. Shiribeshi in Hokkaido: Mt. Makkarinupuri (commun. 

 M. Kawasaki, July 20, 1905). 



New to the Flora of Japan. I have a specimen, which I owe to the 

 kindness of Mr. Mitsujiro Kawasaki of Ise. 



Loxocalyx ambiguus Makino nom nov. 



Leonurus ambiguus Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XIII. (1899) p. 319. 

 Bhizome shortly repent or ascending, ramose, ligneous, densely rooting. 

 Stem erect, slender, loosely ramose with slender simple and erect-patent 

 branches, 4-gonous with angles and flat faces, but the faces often slightly 

 concave in branches, softly piloso-pub cent with sub-reflexed pale hairs on 

 angles but much thinner in faces, v iridescent, attaining about 5 mm. across 

 in the lower portion ; internodes usually longer than leaves, attaining about 

 14 cm. long in the main stem. Leaves lato-ovate, but ovate in those of 



