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cending-erect, 17-22 mm. long, cteruleo-viol.iceoiis al>ove : pedicel very slidrt, 

 11-3 mm. long, thinly pubescent. Calyx campanulate, shallowly 2-labiate 

 with entire equal lips, thinly pubescent with glandular patent hairs ex- 

 ternally, green, 2^-3 mm. long, but 3^ mm. in length and compressed and 

 close in fruit, appendage erect, lato-semiorbicular, thinly glanduloso-pubescent 

 and ciliated, slightly concavo-convex, 3.]-4rnm. broad in fruit. Corolla 

 thinly pubescent with patent glandular hairs, white but ctpruleous a])ove ; 

 tube long, slightly arcuate, enlarged above, somewhat geniculate and sub- 

 gibbose at the base ; limb much shorter than the tube, the upper lip shorter 

 and much smaller, 2-lobed into oval-ovate obtuse lobules, the lower lip 

 ample, the latj^al lobes obtuse deltoid-oval and shorter than the up[)er lip^ 

 the midlobe la/iich broad, patent, semiorbicular, 8-9^ mm. broad, obscurel)- 

 trilobuled, tlie midlobnle broader than the lateral lobules and subtruncate 

 or sub-emarginate. Stamens didynamous, inserted above the middle of 

 the corolla-tube, the anterior ones equal to the upjier lip of corolla in 

 height ; fMa.f:iS;!it pubescent below ; anther ciliated on the margin of anther- 

 cells, divergent, one of cells in those of the anterior stamens mii.ute and 

 imperfect. Style about equal to stamens in height, filiform, glabrous, 

 curved forwards under the stigma ; stigma bifid, the upper lobe minute and 

 much shorter ; ovary short-stipitate, disk large. Nutlet li mm. across,, 

 fulvous, muricate all over. Flowers in June- July. 



Hah. Prov. Tos.\ : Okasaki in Sakawa {T. 31aldno\ May 18, 1889); 

 Prov. MusASHi: Nakatsugawa in Chichibu (T. 31akim\ July 18, 1888); 

 Prov. Shimotsuke : Nikko {T. MaJdno ! July 18, 1900) ; Prov. Iyo : Wariishi 

 in Shimo-ukena-gori, (K. OLudairal June 1894); Hokkaido (L. BoeJanerl 

 herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, June 1874); Prov. Ishikari: Sappont 

 (Herb. ! ibid.) ; Prov. Oshima : Hakodate {K. Miyahe and Y. Tolcuhuchi ! 

 herb. ibid. July I'O, 1890) ; Prov. Shinano : Mt. Usui-toge (Herb. ! ibid. 

 July 19, 1880), Mt. Togakushi {R. Yatabe and ./. Matsumura ! herb. ibid. 

 July 10, 1SS4). 



This comes near to Scutellaria indica Linn, and var. japoiiica (]\Iorr. 

 et Decne.) Franch. et Sav., differing from these by the above mentioned 

 habits. 



Scutellaria indica Linn. Cod. n. 43.")8, ^l japonica (.Alorr. et 

 Decne.) Franch. et Siv. p]num. PI. Jap. I. p. 37(). 

 forma parvifolia Makino. 



