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base, abruptly acuminato-cuspidate at the apex, entire, subtriplinerved, 

 membranaceous when dried, attaining 22 cm. long, 6 cm. broad ; veinlets 

 inconspicuous ; upper ones laxly placed, much smaller, sessile or nearly so, 

 ovato-elliptical or elliptical, acuminate. Panicle large, pyramidal or ellip- 

 tico-pyramidal, 8-21 cm. long, 7-14 cm. broad, laxly several-many-flowered ; 

 rachis straight, terete, erect; branches opposite, patent or erect- patent, with 

 1-5 cymose pedicellate flowers, i-7 cm. long excepting the pedicel and shorter 

 than bracts ; bracts leafy, ovate to augustato-lanceolate, acuminate, sessile or 

 nearly so, patent, 3-8 cm. long, -? 5 -3ram. broad ; bracteoles small, linear or 

 linear-lanceolate, the uppermost ones minute and subulate, usually adpressed. 

 Flowers large, 2-2§cm. long, nutant, campanulate, 5-merous; pedicel 

 slightly enlarged above, shorter than the flower, ^-2^ cm. long, curved 

 downwardes. Calyx deeply 5-parted, 6-10 mm. long, green ; lobes erect- 

 patent, deltoid to ova to-deltoid, acute, entire, thickish towards the centre, 

 subcarinate, 1-nerved, with loose veinlets. Corolla much exceeding the 

 calyx ; the tube very short ; lobes contorted, elliptical to elliptical-oblong, 

 subacute and minutely bifid at the apex, entire, 19-24 mm. long, 9-13 mm. 

 wide, with delicately anastomosing veinlets, numerously punctate internally, 

 with a large subdeltoid-rounded or lato-orbicular subfbveolate gland above 

 the base. Stamens 5, inserted at the top of the corolla-tube, included, 

 slightly shorter than the corolla-lobe, 15-20 mm. long; filament linear- 

 subulate, stout ; anther oblong, shorter than the filament, 6 mm. long, 

 obtuse at the apex, deeply bifid below. Pistil slightly lower than filaments ; 

 ovary lanceolate, grandually attenuated on both ends ; style very short ; 

 stigma bifid, thickish, orbicular. Capsule subsessile, a little exceeding the 

 persistent corolla, attenuated above, ovoid-lanceolate, with a short persistent 

 style and stigmas; seeds numerous, small, nearly parallelopiped-form, sub- 

 truncated on both ends, rufous, muricate all over. 



Nom. Jap. Shima-alcebonoso, lietsulca-rindo (Y. Tashiro). 



Hab. Yayeyama Archip. (Y. Tashiro ! herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, 

 Oct. 1886). 



Leaves similar to those of Sioertia Kuroiwai Makino, so that we can not 

 separate them with sterile specimen, but the flowers are apparently different. 



Swertia (Ophelia) Kuroiwai Makino in P>ot. Mag., Tokyo, XVII. 

 (1903) p. 53. 



Stvertia Tashiroi Makino 1. c. X. (1896) p. 57, excl. syn., non XVII. 

 p. 53, in nota. 



