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DisTEiB. Japan to central China and Daluiria ; mountains of 

 India southward to Ceylon and ^Malacca ; troi)ieaI Africa. 



Rubia lanceolata IIayata, sj). nov. Herl)cr minute aculcolatœ, 

 caulibus elongatis 4-gonis. Folia 4-natim verticillata longe petio- 

 lata, petiolis lamina in longitudine 1-2-plo longioribus minute 

 uncinato-aculeolatis, laminis lanceolatis ovato-lanceolatis vel lineari- 

 lanceolatis apice acuminatis basi rotundatis vel leviter cordatis 

 cm. longis 1 cm. latis supra ad nervös hispidulis snl)tus ad nervös 

 et margines uncinato-asperis trinerviis. Flores minuti in cymas 

 paniculatas circ. 20 cm. longas axillares et terminales dispositi, 

 liracteis angusto-lanceolatis 4-natim verticillatis. Flores ignoti. 

 Fructus didymi 5 mm. lati 3 mm. longi. 



Hab. Ganzan, in montilms Morrison, ad 0141 ped. alt., leg. S. 

 Nagasawa, Oct. 1905, (No. ßS7) ; in monte Morrison, ad 7000 ped. 

 alt., leg. T. Kawakami et U. Moki, Oct. 1000, (Nos. 1715 et 1980?). 



Closely resembles 7*. rorcli folia Linn. ; but differs from it in 

 having lanceolate and trinerved leaves ; from 7i. Srlimnanniana E. 

 Peitzel, this differs in having minutely aculeolate stems and un- 

 cinately asperous petioles. 



GrdunH Linn. 



Galium brachypodium Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 2()(). 

 ITab. in monte Moirison, ad 0000 ped. alt., leg. T. Kawakami 

 et IT. Mori, Oct. 1006, (No. 1805). 

 DisTRiB. Northern part of Japan. 



A more species of Gdliiun ; not yet determined. 



