176 AET. 19. — B. HAY ATA : 



30 cm. alta? pubescentes siccitate nigricantes, canlibus ramosis vel 

 simplicibus tetragonis sulcatis. Folia opposita sessilia oblonga 2 cm. 

 longa 8 mm. lata dentata deorsum Integra apice acuta vel obtusa 

 basi acuta vel cuneata supra exsiccato nigricantia subtus pallidiora 

 distincte nervosa. Flores ad apices raraoruni dense subspicati, ad 

 axilla s bractearum solitarii, bracteis lanceolatis dentatis calycem 

 2-plo superantibus, pedicellis 1 mm. longis 2-bracteolatis, bracteolis 

 linearibus calycem aBquantibus. Calyx campanulato-semiorbiculatus 

 7 mm. longus 10-nervatus breviter 5-lobus, lobis valvatis trian- 

 gularibus acuminatis. Corolla ignota. Stamina 4 didynamia sub- 

 inclusa: 2 longiora, antheris majoribus colierentibus, filamentis longe 

 barbatis ; 2 breviora, antheris parvioribus liberis, filamentis glabris ; 

 loculis antherarum omnibus ovatis basi muticis. Stylus apice 

 stigmatoso-incrassatus sublinguiformis obtusus. Capsulae depresso- 

 globosae 5 mm. in diametro cequantes apice retusa3, loculicide de- 

 liiscentes, valvis demum 2-fidis columnam placentiferam liberanti- 

 bus. Semina numerosa minutissima angusta 1 mm. longa truncata 

 ■testa laxiuscula. 



Hab. Suizan, in montibus Morrison, ad 7702 ped. alt., leg. S. 

 Nagasawa, Oct. 1905, (Nos. 661 et 073) ; Kagi : Kodensho, leg. 

 T. Kawakami et U. Mori, Oct. 1900, (No. 1739). 



DisTEiB. An allied species S. trifida Ham. occurs in India and 

 Ceylon ; and is also found in Kwangtung in the opposit continent. 



Near aS^ trifida Ham. ; but differs from it in having ovato- 

 lanceolate leaves. 



JPhtheirospernitini Bunge. 



Phtheirospermum chinense Bunge ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. X. p. 391 ; 

 Maxlm. Prim. PL Amur. p. 208 ; Hance, " iu Joiim. Eot. (1882), p. 292 " ; 

 Feanchet, pi. David, p. 225 ; Foebes et Hemsl. Ind. Fl. Sin. H. p. 204 ; 

 DiELS, Fl. Centr. Cliin. p. 570. 



