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Hypericum (Enhypericum) tosaense Makino, sp. nov. 



Perennial, glabrous, attaining about 57 cm. in height. Stem woody, 

 erect, slender, strict, terete, smooth, atternately provided with fine elevated 

 lines on two sides throughout. Leaves obovato-oblong, or narrowly oblong, 

 rounded-obtuse, shortly attenuated below and suddenly obtuse at the base, 

 flarrowly re volute on the margin, sessile, firm in texture, about ^-2 cm. 

 ong, numerously and minutely pellucid-punctate, the midrib and veins, 

 (usually 2 or sometimes 3 on each side) prominent beneath, the lower leaves 

 fallen oil" in flower. Inflorescence ramose, cymes densely flowered ; bracts 

 small, the upper ones minute and subulato-ovate or subulato-lanceolate. 

 Flowers li-l|cm. across, bright j^ellow ; pedicels much shorter than the 

 nowers. Sepals 5, rhombeo-oval-ovate or rhombeo-oval-elleptical, shortly 

 acuminate, loosely nigro-punctate on the margin, thickish, 2i-3 mm. long 

 in flower. Petals 5, patent, oblong, somewhat oblique, shortly attenuated 

 at the base, obtuse, about 1 cm. long. Stamens numerous, hardly tria- 

 delphous, shorter than the petal, about 7^- mm. long ; filament filiform, 

 delicate ; anther minute, rounded. Ovary ovoid-conical, trisulcate, 3 mm. 

 long, 3-locular ; styles 3, slender, longer than the ovary, spreading or 

 erect-patent ; stigma capitellato-punctiform ; ovules many, minute, oblong. 

 Capsule ovoid-conical, trisulcate, more longer than twice the persistent calyx, 

 7 mm. long. Seeds many, dark, cylindrical-oblong, minutely punctato- 

 subreticulate, 1 mm. long. 



Hah. Prov. Tosa : Ikku-mura {T. Blakino ! Sept. 27, 1892). 



This species has the general habit of Hypericum erectum Thunb., but 

 evidently differs from it by the tapering sepals and pellucid-punctate leaves 

 It grows in sunny places on hills. 



Hypericum (Enhypericum) obtusifolium Makino, sp. nov. 



Hypericum erectum var. ohtusifolium Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 

 II. p. 2.5, teste Maxim.; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. XI. p. 168. 



Hypericum flaccidum Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XIII. (1899) p. 

 241 (nomen tantum). 



Perennial, flaccid, glabrous. Stems cfespitose, ascending or diffuso- 

 ascending, slender, terete, smooth, ramose, the well developed one attain- 

 ing about 6i decim. in length. Leaves oblong, rounded-obtuse, usually 

 rounded or obtuse at the base, sessile or subsessile, membranaceous, very 

 slightly glaucous beneath, minutely nigro-punctate on the margin, dispersedly 

 pellucid-punctate, attaining 3i cm. long, 1| cm. wide ; veins loose, 3 on 



