Observatons on the Flora of Japan, 



{Continued from p. 103.) 



By 



T. Makiiio. 



ADDITION. 



Pane 157, I)ct\vocu lines 10 and 11 from bottom, insert ' TJcjular'a 

 Kmnpferl p, gigantea iSIiq. Prol. Fl. Jap. i>. ?>80.' 



Salvia miltiorrhiza Eunge, Enum. PI. Chin. Bor. p. 50 ; 

 Benth. in DC. Prodr. XII. p. 277; Sm. Mat. Med. et Nat. Hist. 

 Chin. p. 192; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. XI. p. 304; Franch. PI. 

 David, p. p. 236; Debeaux, PI. Tchef. p. 109; Forbes et Hemsl. 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXVI. p. 286 ; Diels in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. 

 XXIX. p. 557; Bretschen. Hist. Eur. Bot. Disc. Chin. p. 54, 338. 



Salvia pogonocalyx Hance in Journ. Linn. Soc. XIH. p. 85. 



Perennial, attaining 4 decim. or more in height. Stem erect, 

 tetragonous, retrorsely villoso-pubescent. Leaves opposite, 

 long-petiolate, usually simpl}' or very rarely sub-bi- odd-pinnate 

 with usually 3- or 4-jugate leaflets ; rachis slender, retrorso- 

 patent-villose ; leaflets pubescent and more densely piloso-pubes- 

 cent on the midrib and veins on both surfaces, crenato-serrate, 

 acuminate, but often acute or acutish in the lower ones, with 

 anastomotic veinlets beneath ; lateral leaflets sessile or very 

 shortly petiolulate, obliquely subcordate, the inferior ones smaller 

 and the lower jugae remote ; terminal leaflet larger, rounded at 

 the base, petiolulate. Flowering portion loosely ramose at the 

 base, the central branch erect, and lateral ones erect-patent 

 or ascending ; rachis slender, tetragonous, spreadingly viscoso- 

 pubescent. Raceme simple. Verticillasters subremote, several 

 to manj^ flowered ; bracts minute, linear to lanceolate, tapering, 

 pubescent and ciliated, shorter than the pedicels. Flowers many, 

 middle-sized, pedicellate ; pedicels patently pubescent, erect- 

 patent, 4-6mm. long. Calyx 9-llmm. long, tinged with purple, 

 ringent with two short lips, campanulato-tubular, ciliated, thinly 



