FLORA MONTANA FOBMOSJE HJ 



DisTEiB. Japan to central China and Dahnria ; mountains of 

 India southward to Ceylon and Malacca ; tropical Africa. 



Rubia lanceolata Havata, sp. nov. Herba) minute aculeolata?, 

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

 lata, petiolis lamina in longitudine l-2-i3lo longioribus minute 

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

 lanceolatis apice acuminatis basi rotundatis vel leviter cordatis 

 9 cm. longis 1 cm. latis supra ad nervos hispidulis subtus ad nervos 

 et margines uncinato-asperis trinerviis. Flores minuti in cymas 

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

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

 Fructus didymi 5 mm. lati 3 mm. longi. 



Hab. Ganzan, in montibus Morrison, ad 9141 ped. alt., leg. S. 

 Nagasawa, Oct. 1905, (No. 687) ; in monte Morrison, ad 7000 ped. 

 alt., leg. T. Kawakami et U. Mori, Oct. 190(3, (Nos. 1715 et 1989?). 



Closely resembles i?. corcUfolia Linn. ; but differs from it in 

 having lanceolate and trinerved leaves ; from R, Schumanniana E. 

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

 cinately asperous petioles. 



Galium Linn. 



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

 Hab. in monte Morrison, ad 9000 ped. alt., \o)r. T. Kawakami 

 et U. Mori, Oct. 1906, (No. 1805). 

 DisTRiB. Northern part of Japan. 



A more species of Galium; not yet detei-mincd. 



