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reticulated ; petiole slender, longer or shorter than the blade. Samaras 

 rather numerous, glabrous; cocci compressed, reticulately nervate, the outer 

 edge rounded ; wings erect, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or acutish at the 

 apex, often partly lying one on another. 



Hah. Prov. Tosa : Kitagawa in Nanokavva-mura (7". 3IaMno\ Nov. 

 3, 1887). 



Stellaria filicaulis Makino sp. nov. 



Loosely aespitose, quite glal)rous, attaining about 7i decim. in height. 

 Stems erect or ascending, stout- filiform, elongate, weak, acutely 4-gonous 

 with smooth angles, loosely and dichotomosely branching, internodes longer 

 than the leaves. Leaves opposite, spreading or erect-patent, angnstate- 

 linear, but sometimes linear in the inferior ones, sessile, acuminate with an 

 obtuse or acutish tip at the apex, gradually attenuated below and clasping 

 the stem, entire, thin, with a gracile midrib and very delicate loose and in- 

 conspicuous veins, l-3§ cm. in length, 1-2 or sometimes 3 mm. in breadth. 

 Flower terminal, solitary, small, 6-9 mm. across ; pedicel slender, filiform, 

 li-6 cm. or more long. Sepals 5, erect-patent, subulate-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate with a very sharp tip, entire, scarious towards margins, quite 

 glabrous, trinerved, about 3|-4 mm. long. Petals 5, erect-patent, white, 

 longer than the sepals, •2-cleft with linear and obtuse-tipi)ed lobes, narrow- 

 ly cuneate below, about 6-8 mm. long. Stamens 10, shorter than the 

 petals; filament subulate-filiform, glabrous; anther minute, ovate-elliptical. 

 Ovary obo void- ellipsoid, glabrous; styles 3, free, erect, but slightly divergent 

 above, filiform, glabrous, equalling the stamens in height, with a narrow 

 stigma at the inner side above ; ovules many (about 16-17), minute, 

 orbicular or obovato-orbicular, compressed. Capsule surpassing the per- 

 sistent calyx, oblong-cylindrical, glabrou-^ about 6 mm. long, with thin 

 carpels, bursting into 6 narrow lobes above. Seeds rather many, reddish- 

 ferruginous, obovate, compressed, minutely rugulose, 1 mm, long, provided 

 with filiform funicles which are unequal in length. 



Hah. Prov. Musashi : Yoda in Koiwa-mura {K. Watanahel June 16, 

 189.5; T. Mahinol June 23, 1895); Prov. Shimoosa : Mama {K. IVata- 

 nahel June 16, 1895); Prov. Hitachi: Itako (Y. Suzidcil May 19, 

 1901). 



It grows at grassy place in field, and it is more or less allied to 

 Stellaria long i folia Muhl. 



