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terminal ; peduncles not long, compactly few to subnumeroiie-flowered. 

 Flowers minute, li mm. across, pale-viridescent, pedicellate ; pedicels usually 

 shorter than the fruit, divaricate in fruit, glabrous. Corolla patent, 

 4-parted, glabrous ; lobes ovate, simply acute. Stamens 4, short. Styles 2, 

 minute ; stigma capitate. Fruit densely squamuloso-pilose with ascending 

 subuncinate short hairs, l.i mm. lono;. 



Hah. Prov. Tos.\ : Kusaka (T. Mahino ! 1885), Omoto in Ogawa-mura 

 {T. Mahino \ May 18, 1889), Nanokawa [K. IVatanahe I May 20, 1889); 

 Prov. MusAsiii : Tokyo (T. 3IaMno ! May 1896), Dokwan-yama (T. 

 3Ia7dno ! June 1898), Shilmya (T. 3Iabino ! May 27, and June 5, 1899, 

 June 14, 1900); Prov. Ise : Tsu {Z. Umemura\ May 21, 1894); Prov. 

 OsHiMA in Hokkaida : Fukuyama {K. Bliyahe ! July 19, 1890). 



A very wide-spread species. 



Galium gracilens (A. Gray) Makino. 



Galium traclajspermum var. gracilens A Gray Bot. Jap. (1859) p» 

 393 ; Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 276. 



Perennial, attaining 5i decim. or more long. Stems csespitose, often 

 dense and numerous, erect, often very slender, tetragonous, smooth, inter- 

 nodes long. Leaves 4-verticiIlate, erect-patent or patent or more or less 

 reflexed, linear-lanceolate, or lanceolate, or oblong-lanceolate, acute, tapering 

 below, sessile or very shortly petiolate, antrorsely piloso-ciliated, very thinly 

 pilose above, pilose on the midrib beneath, attaining 14 mm. long, 4J 

 mm, wide, sometimes 20 ram, long, 6 mm, wide, the basal leaves shorter 

 and ovate or elliptical. Cymes lateral and terminal, small ; peduncles 

 gracile, not long ; bracts linear or broadly linear ; bracteoles often minute. 

 Flowers minute, pale viridescent, 1 mm. or a little more across, pedicellate ; 

 pedicels gracile, fihform, glabrous, often longer than the fruit, -often divari- 

 cate in fruit. Corolla patent, 4-parted, glabrous ; lobes ovate, simply acute 

 or acutish. Stamens 4, short ; filament filiform. Styles 2, connate one-half 

 below ; stigma capitate. Fruit densely squamuloso-pilose with ascending 

 subuncinate short hairs, 1 mm. long. 



Hah. Prov. Tosa : Sakawa (T. 3Ialdno\ 1885), Okasaki in Sakawa 

 (r. 3IaUno\ May 18 and 21, 1889), Ogawa-mura {T. 3Ialdno\ May 18, 

 1889), Kusaka {T. 3Iakino !), Oohi {T. Makino ! 1892), Nanokawa (T. 

 3Ialdno ! June 1885), Ishii near Kochi {T. 31aldno ! May 1893) ; Prov. 

 Iyo : Hatadera in Onsen-gori (A'. Ohudaira ! May 1894) ; Prov. Mikawa : 



