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with adpressed not-honked white hairs. Tap-root perpendicular, stout,, 

 nigrescent. Leaves Hnear or lato-hnear, obtuse, attaining about 5 cm. 

 long, 6mm. wide ; cauliue ones smaller, alternate, 6-25 mm. long, hairiness 

 as are the radical ones and hairs all adpressed. Stems erect or ascending 

 or diffusely ascending, 5-8 cm. long including the cyme in flower, gracile. 

 Cyme corymbose, about 5-11-flowered, l-2i cm. across; rachises 2- 

 3, not long, each subtended by a leafy bract ; bracteloes few to each 

 rachis, small, shorter than the pedicel, linear, obtuse. Flowers 6-7 mm. 

 across, creruleous ; pedicels erect or erect-patent, 1^-2 as long as the 

 calyx, 3|-4| mm. long, adpressed-pubescent-hirsute. Calyx very deeply 

 5-parted, pubescent-hirsute with adpressed not-hooked hairs, 2^ mm. long ; 

 lobes erect-patent, angustato-oblonii:;, obtuse. Corolla hypocraterimorphous, 

 5-fid ; tube short, broad, shorter than the calyx ; limb patent, longer than 

 the tube, the lobes 5, elliptical- oval ; appendages prominent, emarginate, 

 papilloso-hairy. Stamens 5, included, inserted on the middle of the 

 corolla-tube; iilament short, subulato-linear; anther elliptical. Style short, 

 included ; stigma depressed-capitate, orbicular. Nutlets obliquely attached 

 to the gynobase, the margin pectinato-spinulose with 1-seriate unequal 

 teeth all round, the dorsal face elliptico-ovate, slightly convex, puberulent. 



Nom. Jap. Miyaina-yaurasaki. 



Hah. Prov. Shinano : Mt. Togakushi {R. Yaiabe and J. Blatsumura I 

 herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, July 12, 1884; T. Yagi\ Aug. 1901). 



Echinospermum (Lappula) Matsudairai Makino, sp. nov. 



3Ii/osotis intermedia herb. So. Col!. Imp Univ. Tokyo, et Cat. Herb. 

 Coll. Sc. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, (1886) Suppl. p. 284, quoad pi. Togakushicam,. 

 non Link. 



Perennial (?), attaining about 7 decim in height. Stem erect, slender, 

 terete, adpressed-pilose but patent-pilose below, loosely branched above. 

 Leaves Sjiarse, erect-patent or subpatent, oblong-linear, obtuse or acutish, 

 attenuated bel<nv, petiolate in the lower ones, pubescent-hirsute, the basal 

 ones subspathulate and long-petiolate, the petiole villoso-ciliated. Racemes 

 erect or erect-patent, bracteate, 3-lOcm. long in fruit; rachis slender, adpress- 

 ed-pubesceut-pilose, loosely bearing the fruits ; bracts loosely placed, lanceo- 

 late, the lower ones equal to the pedicel of fruits but the upper ones shorter 

 than the pedicels and at length becoming minute. Flower small, about 

 3mm. across, pedicellate; pedicel pubescent-pilose, patent or subdeflexed and 



