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times very slightly muricate on the angles, shining, pilose at the nodes, 

 the internodes slender. Leaves G-(or 5-4 rarely 7-) verticillate, patent or 

 erect-patent, shortly petiolate, elliptical-lanceolate, oblong, narrowly oblong, 

 or lanceolate, cuspidato-acute or cuspidato-obtuse, acute at the base, attain- 

 in"- 25 mm. long, 11 mm. wide, the lower ones smaller and ovato-elliptical 

 or linear-lanceolate, glabrous but finely antrorsely scabro-ciliated and some- 

 times thinly pilose towards the margin, membranaceous, 1-nerved, with 

 loose veins, the midrib glabrous. Cyme terminal, l-li cm. across ; 

 peduncles twice di- or trichotomous, erect-patent, but lengthened and 

 divaricate in fruit, glabrous ; bracts and bracteoles linear or lanceolate, 

 the latter often minute. Flowers small, about 3 mm. acros«, pure white, 

 pedicellate ; pedicels 2-3, erect-patent and l-i-3 ram. long in flower, divari- 

 cate in fruit. Corolla erect-patent, 4-parted ; lobes ovato-elliptical, 

 acutish, l-i mm. long. Stamens 4, short ; filament incurved ; anther minute. 

 Styles 2, short, erect- patent ; stigma capitate. Ovary globose, densely hispid 

 with uncinate white hairs. Fruit densely uncinato-hispid. Flowers May. 



Hah. Prov. Tosa : Mt. Yokogura {T. Maldno ! May 6, 1889, May 

 1892), Mt. Tebako {T. 31ahino\ Aug. 1885), Nanokawa {T. 3Mdno\ 

 Nov. 1884, June 1885) ; Prov. Iyo : Mt. Nakatsumyozin {K. Okudaira ! 

 May 1895), Nametoko (Z. Umemura ! May 4, 1894) ; Prov. Hitachi : Mt. 

 Tsukuba (T. Maldno ! ]\Iay 27, 1900) ; Prov. Ugo : Kwan-onzi-mura (7. 

 Sat6\ June 1892). 



In general habit this species resembles Asperula cdorata Linn., the 

 flower, however, is very different from it, and the leaves in a whorl are also 

 less. 



Galium trachyspermum A. Gray in Perry's Exped. Jap. II (1859) 

 p. 313, et Bot. Jap. p. 393 ; Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 276, excl. var.; Franch. 

 et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 214, et II. p. 394. 



Galiwii rotundum {rotundi folium) Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 59. 



Galium gracile Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 261, etXI. p. 802, proj^rte. 



Perennial, attaining 6 decim. high. Stems densely several-many 

 crespitose, erect, slender, tetragonous, suiooth even on the angles, int;ernodes 

 long. Leaves 4-verticillate, erect-patent, ovate, ovato-oblong, or oblong, 

 acute or acutish or obtuse, nearly sessile or very shortly petiolate, piloso- 

 oiliated, patent-antrorsely pilose beneath, attaining 20 mm. long, 8 mm. 

 broad, 1-nerved, subtriplinerved at the base. Cymes small, axillary and 



