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approximate, spreading, elliptical to oblong, abruptly short-acuminate with a 

 sharp tip, attenuated below into petioles shortly connate at the base, entire 

 and more or less crispate, thickish, subtripli nerved, attaining 15 cm. long 

 including the petiole, and 8 cm. wide ; petioles winged, often long. Cyme 

 loosely paniculate, oblong ; rachis slender, erect ; peduncles opposite, 

 strict, erect-patent, about i-2cm. long; bracts linear, acuminate, shorter 

 or longer than the peduncle ; pedicel enlarged above, 1-2^ cm. long, with 

 minute subulate bracteoles below. Flower about 1| cm. across, not nutant, 

 pale. Calyx 5-parted, about 4|mm. long; lobes deltoid-subulate, acute, 

 entire, subcarinate, 1-nerved, green, persistent. Corolla deeply 5-parted, 

 campanulato-patent, persistent ; lobes spathulato-lanceolate, abruptly short- 

 acuminate, provided with a green large glandular spot above the middle, 

 10-11 mm. long, the tube very short. Stamens 5, inserted at the top of 

 the corolla-tube, shorter than the corolla-lobes ; filament subulato-filiform, 

 glabrous ; anther narrowly oblong, yellowish. Ovary ovato-oblong, glabrous, 

 8mm. long including the very short stj'le bearing a bilobed stigma. 

 Capsule large, longer than the persistent corolla, narrowly ovoid, acute, 

 crowned with a bifid stigma. Seeds numerous, minute, rounded to elliptical, 

 compressed, muricate. 



Hab. LoocHOO : Yontanzan in Tsl. Okinawa {H. Kuroiwa ! Dec. 1895). 



The leaves are similar to those oi Swertia Tashiroi (Msixim.) Makino, 

 but the flowers are very different. This is also found in Amami-Oshima. 



Swertia (Ophelia) tosaensis Makino. 



Siuertia chinensis var. tosaensis Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, VI. 

 (1892) p. 53. 



Biennial, glabrous, 8-52 cm, high. Roots divaricate. Stem erect, 

 slender, tetragonous, usually loosely or rarely densely branched ; branches 

 slender, ascendingly erect. Leaves spreading, subspathulate or linear- 

 oblong, obtuse or acute, attenuated below into a rather long or short 

 petiole, the superior ones gradually smaller and sessile and lanceolate or 

 linear-lanceolate and passing into lato-linear bracts above, entire, thin, 

 triplinerved, the lower largest one attaining 6| cm. long and l|cm. wide. 

 Cyme paniculate ; bracteoles linear, often shorter than the pedicel. Flowers 

 li-lf cm. across, whitish, erect, pedicellate. Calyx 5-divided, glabrous, 

 green ; lobes lanceolate, acute, 4-8 mm. long, 3 or sub-5-nerved, with 

 anastomosing venules. Corolla patent, longer than the calyx, deeply 



