erect or a.^-cending, decumbent and radicant at the base, narrowly terete. 

 Leaves sparse, not dense, spreading or erect-patent, linear, more or less 

 narrowed towards the sessile base, ronnded-obtuse at the apex, entire, 

 carnose-flat, green (or more or less glaucons ?), |-2^ cm. long, 2-3 mm. broad. 

 Cyme 2-4 cm. across, 3-fid with patent branches, which are often again 

 divaricately dichotoraons ; bracts similar to leaves in form, the largest one 

 2 J cm. in length in our specimens. Flowers laxly disposed, sessile, about 

 7 mm. in diameter. Calyx 4-partite with broad and rounded sinuses ; lobes 

 minute, short, erect-patent, unequal in size, deltoid but the largest one 

 often oblong, rounded- obtuse at the apex, flesh}', punctate, ^-1^ mm. long. 

 Petals 4, white ? but ferruginous when dried, patulous, ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, entire, thickly membranaceous, delicatedly 3-nerved, the lateral nerves 

 dividing from the lower portion of the niidvein and disappearing before 

 reaching the apex. Stamens 8, equal to petals in height, alternipetalous 

 ones adherent to the basal sides of petals, oppositipetalous ones inserted 

 to inframedia of petals ; filaments filiform ; anther ovate-elliptical, 

 purple ? Hypogynous scales 4, minute, cuneato-obovate, retuse-truncate or 

 ol)Cordate at the apex. Ovaries 4, erect, equal to petals in height, connate 

 with the lower half, tapering up towards the style ; style short, erect, 

 often very slightly thicker under the stigma ; stigma punctiform ; ovules minute, 

 cylindrical-oblong, ascending. Follicles (immature) 4, erect, ovato-lanceolate, 

 connate with the lower half. Seeds (immature) cylindrical, obtuse at both 

 ends, ferruginous, 1 mm. long. 



Kom. Jap. Maisunolia-mannengusa. 



Hah. Prov. Sagami : Hakone ( Herb.! Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, August 

 14, 1883). 



A rare species ; its peculiarity is the 4-merous flower. If the flower 

 is white, it is very interesting, for all the Japanese species of the section 

 have vellow flowers. 



Sedum (Seda genuiua) tosaense Makino Notes on Jap. PI. XV. in 

 Bot. Mag., Tokyo, VI. 1892, p. 52. 



Perennial, flaccid, glabrous, about 12 cm. high, loosely tufted, with dense 

 fibrous roots. Stem ascending, decumbent and radicant at the base with 

 many ascending floriferuus branches, fleshy. Leaves sparse, flat, fleshy ; the 

 inferior ones orbicular-spa thulate, narrowly attenuated at the base so as 

 form the petiole, with a notch at the apex, entire, with delicate veins all of 

 which go towards the common intramarginal vein, denser in the sterile stem. 



