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imperfect. Style about equal to stamens in height, filiform, glabrous, 

 curved forwards under the stigma ; stigma bifid, the upper lobe minute and 

 much shorter; ovary short-stipitate, disk large. Nutlet li mm. across, 

 fulvous, muricate all over. Flowers in June-July. 



Hob. Prov. Tosa: Okasaki in Sakawa (T. Makino \ May 18, 1889); 

 Prov. Musashi: Nakatsugawa in Cbichibu (T. Mahino\ July 18, 1888); 

 Prov. Shimotsuke : Nikko {T. Makino ! July 18, 1900) ; Prov. Iyo : Wariishi 

 in Shimo-ukena-gori, (K. Okudairal June 1894); Hokkaido (L. Bcehmerl 

 herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, June 1874); Prov. Ishikabi : Sapporo 

 (Herb.! ibid.); Prov. Oshima : Hakodate {K. Miyabe and Y. Tokvbuchil 

 herb. ibid. July 10, 1890); Prov. Shinano : Mt. Usui-toge (Herb.! ibid. 

 July 19, 1880), Mt. Togakushi {11. Yatabe and J. Matsumural herb. ibid. 

 July 10, 1884). 



This comes near to Scutellaria indica Linn, and var. japonica (Morr. 

 et Decne.) Franch. et Saw, differing from these by the above mentioned 

 habits. 



Scutellaria indica Linn. Cod. n. 4358, fi. japonica (Morr. et 

 Decne.) Franch. et S-iv. Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 376'. 

 forma parvifolia Makino. 



Dwarf, crespitose, many-stemmy, thinly pubescent to tomentose-pubes- 

 cent. Leaves small, 5-15 mm. long, 4-14 mm. broad, petiolate, oval- 

 ovate, obtuse, truncate or truncato-subcordate at the base, crenate ; petiole 

 shorter than the blade, 2-9 mm. long. Flower as in those of var 

 japonica Morr. et Decne. (sp.), but sometimes smaller. Nutlet minute, 

 muricate all over, black. Flowers in May. 



Hah. Prov. Tosa: Sakawa (T. Makino ! 1885), Tanokuchi in Hata- 

 g6ri (K. Watanabe\ herb. Sc Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Oct. 26, 1891); 

 Prov. Settsu: Ikuta (Herb.! ibid. May 10, 1879); Prov. Musashi: Mt. 

 Takao (T. Makino ! May 18, 1902). 



Stephanotis (Jasminanthes) chinensis Champ, in ' Hook. Kew 

 Journ. Bot. V. p. 53 ' ; Walp. Ann. V. p. 503 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 

 227 ; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 818 ; Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. XXVI. p. 114; Bretschn. Hist. Eur. Bot. Disc. Chin. p. 377. 



Stephanotis japonica Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, VI. (1892) p. 53. 



