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longer than the calyx and 4-5mm. long in fruit, thick at the receptacle. 

 Calyx 5-divided, pilose, ciliated ; lobes erect-patent, oblong, acutish, IJmm. 

 long in flower, but l-i mm. and patent in fruit and not exceeding it. Corolla 

 about twice as long as the calyx, infuudibuliform-hypocraterimorphous ; 

 tube short and broad, campanulate, a little shorter than the calyx ; limb 

 slightly longer than the tube, the lobes elliptical-ovate, rounded at the 

 apex, appendages prominent", reniform-lunate. Stamens included, inserted 

 on the middle of the corolla-tube ; filament short, gracile ; anther elliptical. 

 Style short, erect, included ; stigma depressed-capitate. Nutlets about 

 2mm, long omitting the prickles, depressed-trigonous ; the dorsal disk ovato- 

 deltoid, acute at apex, rounded at base, plane, minutely muricate as 

 the lateral faces ; marginal prickles 1-seriate, patent, long, very slightly 

 connate at the base, glochidiate at the apex ; gynobase pyramidal. 



Nom, Jap. Iiua-murasaki. 



Hah. Prov. Shinano : Mt. Togakushi (i?. Yatabe and J. Matsumura ! 

 herb. Sc. C(j11. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, July 12, 1884, in flowers ; Hitoshi 

 Matsudaira ! Aug. 1893, in fruits). 



Rare. I have named it in honour of late Baron Hitoshi Matsudaira, 

 who was a diligent student of botany. This genus is new to Japanese 

 Flora. 



Myosotis intermedia Link ; Spreng. Syst. Veg. I. p. 558 ; DC 

 Prodr. X. p. 108; Ledeb. FI. Alt. I. p. 187, excl. var. «., et Fi. Ross. 

 III. p. 146; Koch Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. 3, p. 438; Less, in 

 Linna3a IX. p. 157 ; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. YIII. p. 545 ; Franch. et Sav. 

 Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 335 ; Miyabe Fi. Kuril. Isl. p. 2.53 ; Palib. Consp. 

 Fl. Kor. II. p. 16. 



Ilyosotis arvensis Roth ; A. Gray in Perry's Exped. Jap. p. 316. 



Nom. Jap. Uzo-murasaki (nov.). 



Hab. Prov. Hidaka. in Hokkaido [E20] : Shidzunai (K. Miyabe ! herb. 

 Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, June 14, 1884). 



I have not yet seen from Honsiu. 



Swertia (Ophelia) Kuroiwai Makino, sp. nov. 



Perennial (?), li- 3decim. high, glabrous. Stem erect, foliate below, 

 the upper often with remotely placed small leaves. Leaves opposite, 



