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Perennial, attaining about 5 cm. in height. Stem erect or ascending, 

 covered with leaves throughout, often rooting. Leaves contracted, closely 

 placed, opposite, reflexed, densely imbricated as to form together a column 

 which is about li cm. in diameter, shortly petioled, orbicular or broadly 

 orbicular, rounded or emarginate at the apex, cordate or subcordate at the 

 base, paucidentate, attaining about 10 mm. long, 14 mm. wide, thickly her- 

 baceous, deep-green, shining, rugose. Kacemes terminal or axillary, very 

 short, few or several-fiovTOred. Flowers smaller ; calyx thinly glanduloso- 

 pubescent below ; corolla purple. • 



Nom. Jap. Zyakago-so. 



Hah. Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, rarely cultivated. 



This Jias a curious ai^pearance and was recently brought to Tokj-o 

 from Nagoya, prov. Owari. 



Mazus japonicus (Thunb.) 0. Kuntze Eevis. Gen. PI. II. (1891) p. 

 462, non Makino. 



Lindernia japonica Thunb. Fl. Jap. (1784) p. 253 ; Willd. Sp. PI. 

 III. (1800) p. 326 ; Pers. Syn. PI. II. (1807) p. 166. 



Maz2is rucjosus Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) p. 385, et ed. Willd. (1793) 

 p. 468 ; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, IV. (1812) p. 53 ; Spreng. Syst. Veg. II. 

 (1825) p. 803 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. X. p. 375, et Fl. Hongk. p. 247 ; 

 Herd. PI. Puidd. IV. p. 297; Maxim. Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 205, Suppl. p. 

 475, et in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 402; Pvegel Tent. Fl. Ussur. p. 119; Seem. 

 Bot. Voy. ' Herald ' p. 402 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. p. 677, et Prol. Fl. 

 Jap. p. 48 ; A. Gray in Perry's Exped. Jap. II. p. 316 ; Franch. et Sav. 

 Enum. PI. Jap. L p. 344; Franch. PI. David. L p. 222 ; Kanitz Anthoph. 

 Jap. p. 11; Debeuax Fl. Schangh. p. 97, Fl. Tchef. p. 336, et Fl. Tients. 

 p. 58 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. IV. p. 259 ; Hillebr. Fl. Hawai. Isl. p. 

 324; Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXVI. p. 183; Makino in 

 Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XL p. 391 ; Henry in Trans. Asiat. Soc. Jap., Suppl. 

 p. 67 ; Palib. Consj). Fl. Kor. II. p. 20 ; Diels in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 

 p. 566 ; Bretschn. Hist. Eur. Bot. Disc, in China pp. 197, 219, et 60S. 



Tittmannia obovata Bunge Enum. PI. Chin. Boreal, p. 49; Bretschn. 

 L c. p. 337. 



VandeUia obovata \Val[). Eepert. III. p. 294. 



Ma?MS vandellioides Hauce in Walp. Ann. III. p. 193 ; Bretschn. 1. 

 c. p. 368. 



