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Nom. Jap. Ashikaki. 



Hab. Prov. Tosa (T. Makinol); Prov. Musashi (T. Makinol). 



Not uncommon. 



Allium fistulosum Linn. var. caespitosum Makino var. nov. 



Allium ascalonicum Savatier in Iinuma's Somoku-Dzusetsu, ed. 2, VI. 

 n. 33, nun Linn. 



Densely ctespitose, attaining about 40 cm. in height. Bulb, leaves, 

 umbel (about 3 cm. across), and flowers smaller, but the form and colour as 

 in the type. Bulbs many-aggregate. Spatbe attaining about 2 cm. long. 

 Perianth : the outer about 5-6 mm. long ; the inner longer and about 

 7 mm. or more long. Stamens about 11 mm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Walcegi. 



Icon. Somoku-Dzusetsu, VI. fol. 34 recto. 



Hab. Prov. Musashi: Near Ogikubo, cult. (T. Makinol May 14, 1905). 



This is not found wild but cultivated, and is much less common 

 than the type. 



LoxOCalyx ambigUUS Makino, vide supra. 



Add. Hab. Prov. Tosa in Shikoku : Taniai-yama in Zaisho-mura, 

 Kami-gori {Zenkichi Kumonl commun. T. Yoshinaga, Sept. 11, 1904). 

 New to the Isl. of Shikoku. 



Leonurus tuberiferus Makino sp. nov. 



A small perennial, 4-30 cm. high, tuberiferous and stoloniferous ; tuber 

 solitary, subterranean, thick, oblong to ellipsoid, about 8-18 mm. long; 

 roots fibrous ; rhizome filiform, ascending or repent, with a few or several 

 nodes, rooting ; stolon filiform, subterranean, nodes distant and with minute 

 scales. Stem erect, slender, usually laxly ramose, retrorse-spreadingly 

 pubescent, 4-gonous with obtuse angles and plane faces as well as the 

 branch ; internodes shorter or longer than leaves ; branches gracile, erect- 

 patent or ascending. Leaves opposite, petiolate, pubescent on both sides 

 and pilose on veins beneath, ciliated, oval-ovate, truncato-cuneate or some- 

 times truncato-cordate at the entire base, obtuse at the apex, regularly 

 dentato-crenate, thinly membranaceous, about 1-3| cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide ; 

 midrib delicate ; veins about 3 on each side, very loose, subtriplinerved 



