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350 ; Franch. PI. David, p. 225 ; Forbes et Hemsl. in Joiirn. Linn. Soc. 



XXVI. p. 204; Palibin Consp. Fl. Korenj in Act. Ilort. Petrop. XVIIT. 



p. 168. 



Fcdiculan's Sieb. berb. ex Miquel. 



Nom. Jap. Ko-sliiogama. 



Hah. Prov. Shimotsuke : Nikko (Herb.! So. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, 

 Sept. 26 and Oct. 4, 1879); Prov. Musashi : Tokyo {Z. Matsi0mcra\ 

 herb. ]. c. Oct. 10, 1881), Dokwan-yama (Z. Matsumura ! herb. 1. c. Sept. 

 28, 1879), Nobitome {S. ()huho\ herb. 1. c. Sept. 28, 1882), Shibuya 

 {T. Maldno\ 1900); Prov. Siiimoosa : Konodai (T. Mahino\ Oct. 6, 1895); 

 Prov. TosA : Tosayama-go {T. Blaldno ! Oct. 6, 1892). 



Rehmannia lutea Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. .371 ; Franch. et 

 Sav. Enum PI. Jap. I. p. 328. 



a. lutea Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XII. 1898, p. 301. 



Corolla pale-yellow, tinged with light purple in the throat. 



Nom. Jap. Shiroya-chnoo. 



Icon. limuma's Soraoku-Dzusetsu XI. fob 64 recto ; Honzokwai-Buppin- 

 Mokuroku, Nagoya, 1835, fol. 2 verso. 



^. purpurea Makino 1. c. 



Perennial. Khizome thick, long, ramose, orange-yellow, with short 

 fibrous roots. Leaves tufted, spreading, petiolate, oblong, obtuse, cuneately 

 attenuated towards the thickish petiole, which is much shorter than the blade, 

 irregularly crenato-dentate, flaccid, thickish, rugose, pubescent-pilose, green, 

 but purpurascent beneath ; nerves prominent beneath, the midrib stout, veins 

 6 to 7 on each side, erect-patulous, veinlets reticulate. Peduncles erect, 

 lateral to the base of the abbreviated main stem, which is already dead 

 and remaining in the flowering time, a few to a stock, attaining about 

 32 cm. in height, terete, simple, villoso-pilose with patent white glandular 

 hairs, loosely leafy below, leaves oblong, green, tinged with pupurascent 

 colour beneath, glandular-pilose, dentate, obtuse at the base, cuneate and 

 decurrent to a thickish petiole at the base, rugose, flaccid, thickish, with 

 reticulated veins beneath, became smaller above and at length going to 

 lanceolate or broadly lanceolate subsessile and more or less reflexed bracts, 

 which are slightly shorter or longer than pedicels ; pedicels patulous- erect, much 

 shorter than the flower, solitary. Flowers 4-13, approximate at first and 

 then racemo?ely disposed, facing outwards, 4-4^ cm. long. Calyx globoso-cam- 

 panulate, 5-fid, villoso-pilose with patent white glandular hairs, longitudinally 



