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white-tomentose, often furnished with minute, subolato-hnear, entire or 

 subbifid, 2-approximate bracts above. Flower about 18 mm. across, yellow. 

 Calyx 5-parted, patent, about 10-11 mm. across, adpressed-piloso-pubescent 

 externally, ciliated, green, persistent ; lobes deltoidly ovato-lanceolate, acute, 

 entire, the midrib delicate, veinlets irregularly anastomosing with vertical 

 areolae ; bracteoles linear, obtuse, shorter than the calyx-lobes, adpressed- 

 pubescent, ciliated, green. Petals 5, patent, exceeding the calyx-lobes in 

 length, sessile, obovato-cuneate, truncate or subemarginate, entire, about 6 mm. 

 long, 5 mm, broad. Stamens many, attaining about 2-^ mm. long ; filament 

 filiform, glabrous ; anther broadly rounded, bifid at the base. Ovary-cluster 

 globose, about 2^ mm. across ; receptacle sessile, pilose. Ovaries nunierons 

 lunato-elliptical, obtuse at both end, glabrous, about § mm. long ; style subter- 

 minal, filiform, glabrous, two-times as long as the ovary, with a terminal stigma. 



Hah. Prov. Shinano : Mt. Togakushi {K. Blatsuoka ! July 1901). 



A rare species ; it comes near to Pottntilla Hoolcerlana Lehm., a 

 North-American s[)ecies, but the flowers are fewer, leaflets more shallowly 

 serrate, and the tomentum adpressed. 



Mazus Miquelii Mal<ino nom. nov. 



Vandellia .? japonica Miq. in Ann. Mus. Bot, Lugd.-Bat, II, (1865-6) p. 

 118, et Pro], Fl. Jap. p. 50 ; Franch, et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 346. 



Mazus japonicus Makino in r>ot. Mag., Tokyo, XL (1897) p. 391, et 

 XY. (1901) p. 96, non 0. Kuntze. 



Mazus rugosus j^ ? stolonifer Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 403, (1874). 



31azus stolonifer Makino in List of Seeds, Bot. Gard, Imp. Univ. 

 Tokyo, (1896) p. 17. 



Mazus rugosus /3. macrcndlius Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. 

 (1875) p. 344. 



3Iazus rugosus y. rotundifoUus Franch. et Sav. 1. c. 



Xom. Jap. Sagi-goke, lia:-:ena. 



Hah. Japan, widely distributed. 



forma albiflora Makino. 



Mazus japonicus var. alhijiorus Makino in Bot. ]\Iag., Tokyo, XI. 

 (1897) p. 391, et XV. (1901) p.' 96. 



Nom. Ja[). Sagi-sMha. 



Hah. Prov. Sagami ; Musasiii ; Awa (Boshu). 



var. contractus Makino var. nov. 



