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li-2 mm. long, light green. Corolla infundibnliform, j-parted, rose- 

 spotted on tlie posterior .side ; loLes spreading, elliptical or ohlong-elliptical, 

 rounded at the apex, undulate on margin ; tube rather short, [tuberulent 

 below internally. Stamens 10, included, unequal, the long one slightly 

 longer than the corolla-tube ; filament filiform, white, su])-retrorsely pubes- 

 cent below, the longest one about 3.3 mm. long and shortest one about 

 20 mm. long; anther small, obovato-elliptical or obovato - oblong, pale 

 fulvous. Ovary ovoid, ])iloso- pubescent with silky erect hairs, green, 

 3-31 mm. long; style gracile, declinate, slightly longer than the anterior 

 stamen, about 33-38 mm. long; stigma depressed-capitate, with a 5-lobed 

 f\\ce, greenish-pale or rose-pur purascent. Flowers in June. 



Hah. Prov. MusASiii : Tokyo, cult. {T. MaHnol June 1904). 



Rare ; probably a garden variety, cultivated by Mr. Kageyoshi Tamnr.i, 

 a horticulturist of Tokyo. 



Hypericum (Euhypericum) nikkoense Makino sp. nov. 



Perennial, suffruticous, many-stemmy, densely leaved, quite glabrous, 

 attaining 5 decim. in height. Stems cmspitose, erect or ascending, slender, 

 smooth, terete, without decurrent lino, slightly compressed and often 

 ramose above, rnfo-purpurascent below and viridescerit above when recent, 

 but ferruginous when dried, attaining about 4mm. in diameter at the base 

 in the largest one, internodes usually shorter than leaves. Leaves patent, 

 sessile, narrowly lanceolate, lanceolate, linear-oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, but 

 ovato-lanceolate in superior ones and elliptico-oblong in inferior ones, obtuse 

 or subemarginate at apex, obtuse or rounded and semi-amplexicaul, entire, 

 minutely pellucid-punctate (unequal in size), loosely nigro-punctate on 

 margin, green above, subglaucons beneath, attaining about 3<^ cm. long, 

 nearly li cm. wide ; lateral veins about 3-4 on each side, obliquely paral- 

 lel to the midrib. Cyme terminal, loosely subnumerous- or numerous- 

 flowered ; branches erect-patent, gracile, secundly loose-flowered ; bracts 

 similar to leaves, but often slightly smaller ; bracteoles small, ovato-linear or 

 oblong-linear. Flower short-pedicellate, 12-16 mm. across, yellow; pedicel 

 shorter than flowers, capsules, and bracteoles, 1-4 mm. long. Sepals 5, 

 «rect-patent, unequal in size, linear-lanceolate or oblong-linear, acutish, en- 

 tire, very thinly nigro-punctate on surface, loosely nigro-punctate on margin, 

 tri-quinquenerved, viridescent, 3-8 mm. long in flower. Petals 5, patent, 

 longer than sepals, sliglitly oblique in form, oblong to oblong-elliptical, or 



