56 



Franch. et Sav. Eniim. PL Jap. I. p. 215 ; Franch. PI. David. I. p. 156 ; 

 Korsh. in Act. Hort. Petrop. XII. p. 347. 



? Galium asprellum Forbes et Hemsl. in Jonra. Linn. Sec. XXIII. p. 393. 



? Galium davuricum /?. fructa Idspido Maxim. Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 

 140 ; Eegel Tent. FI. Ussur. p. 82 ; Er. Schm. Keis. im Amur. u. Ins. 

 Sachal. p. 48. 



Perennial, attaining about 2-i m. in length ; roots dense. Stem weak, 

 slender, usually leaning on bushes, branched, retrorsely aculeato-scabrous on 

 the angles. Leaves 6-verticillate, but those of the branches often 4 or 5, 

 patent, linear-lanceolate to linear-oblong, or augustato-obloog, cuspidato-acute 

 to cuspidato-rounded-obtuse at the apex, acutely attenuated below, very 

 shortly petiolate or subsessile, retrorsely aculeato-muricate on the margin 

 and midrib beneath, antrorsely muricato-hispid above and on the midrib 

 above, attaining 36 mm. long, 12 mm. broad ; lateral veins loose. Peduncles 

 axillary and terminal, numerous, 2-3 times tri-dichotomous, glabrous or 

 retrorsely subaculeato-scabrous below ; bracts or bracteoles opposite, linear or 

 lato-linear, acuminate, usually shorter than the peduncles or pedicels ; 

 bracteoles often minute ; pedicels capillary, longer than the flower, attaining 

 about 12 mm. long ; the peduncles and pedicels soon divaricate. Flowers 

 small, loose, greenish, l|-3 mm. across. Corolla 4-parted ; lobes deltoid, 

 minutely beaked at the apex. Stamens short. Style erect, bifid, about 

 1mm. long ; stigma capitate. Ovary unclnato-hispid. Fruit about If mm. 

 long, uncinato-hispid (hook curved upwards), the mericarp elliptical-oblong. 

 Fl. July-September. 



Nora. Jap. Oba-no-yaemugura. 



Bah. Prov. Musashi : Mt. Yokami {T. 3Iakino\ July 16, 1888), 

 Asukayaraa (B. Yatahe and J. 3Iatsumura\ herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. 

 Tokyo, May 4, 1879), Tokyo {R. Yatahe and J. 3Iats^im,ura-\ herb. ibid. 

 July 13, 1879), Otsuka in Tokyo (T. Blaldno ! Sept. 1886), Dokwan-yama 

 {T. 3Iahinol Aug. 17, 1888); Prov. Shimoosa : Konodai {T. 3Iakinol May 

 25, 1884) Prov. Shimotsuke : Nikko. (T. 3Iahino ! July 30, 1884) ; Prov. 

 Shinano : Mt. Usuhi-toge (R. Yatahe and J. 3Iatsumura ! herb. ibid. July. 

 19, 1880) ; Prov. Mutsu : Kanegasawa (Herb. ! ibid. Aug. 16, 1884) ; 

 Prov. Ugo : Kwan-onzi-mura (7. Sato ! June 1892) ; Prov, Tosa : Bit. 

 Yokogura (T. 3Iakino ! Aug. 28, 1887), Mt. Tebako {T. 3Iahino ! Aug. 

 1885) ; Prov. Ise : Yachi-mura {Z. Umemura ! Aug. 24, 1894) ; Prov. 

 Chikuzen: Kubara-mura in Kasuya-gori (K. Nagano] herb. ibid. Oct. 25, 

 1891); Prov. Ishikari in Hokkaido: Kamikawa (K. 31iyahel herb. ibid. 

 Aug. 10, 1891). 



