June. 1919.1 s. MATSTJDA .--PLANTS COLLECTED ON MT. OMEL 137 



owing to the want of some literature, it is difficult fo^me to determine 

 whether the present specimen is of undescribed sp. or not. 



34-. Yaleriana sp. (At the foot). 



Herb, flaccid, attaining 5 or 6 dm. glabrous, stoloniferous ; stolons 

 ver\' long, furnished with a tuft of leaves, most of which are simple, 

 ovate, few-toothed, but some have a pair of small lateral lobes 

 appended. Internodes very long. Cauline leaves few in number, 

 opposite, the lowest one 12 cm. long (inch petiole), membranaceous, 

 pinnately 5-sected ; the lowest segments the smallest, less than 1 cm. 

 long, the terminal ovate, acuminate, cuneate at the base, acuminate, 

 toothed with acute teeth, sprinkled with adpressed hairs above and 

 beneath, 6 cm. long, 2 cm. broad. Upper cauline leaves less developed, 

 pinnately 3-sected. Inflorescence axillary, as well as terminal, rather 

 loose, long-peduncled, branches 2- or 3- chotomons. Bracts long, linear, 

 obtu.se. Flowers 3 mm. across. Calyx-tuhe C3dindrical, 1 mm. long or 

 over, limb obscure. Coro//a-tube short, funnel-shaped, limb 5-parted, 

 segments oblong, obtuse, spreading. Stamens 3 borne on the tube 

 exserted. Style shorter than the stamens ; Stigma shortly parted. 

 Fruit oblong, compressed, ribbed. 



The specimen also remains unascertained whether it is described or 

 not, on the same reason as I stated above. 



{to he continued) 



