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This species comes near to Arenaria saxifraga Fenzl, A. ciliata Linn., 

 and A. norvegica Cunn., but it differs from them in many respects. 

 I liave named it in honour of Viscount Yasnaki Kato. 



Bryanthus Gmelini D. Don in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. XVII. 

 (1834) p. 160 ; DC. Prodr. VII. p. 712 ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II. p. 916 ; 

 Maxim. Rhod. As. Or. p. 4; de Bois. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. V. (1897) p. 

 914 ; Kawakami in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XV. (1901) p. 218 (Jap.). 



Andromeda Bryantha Linn. Mant. p. 238 ; Richt. Cod. n. 3098 ; 

 Lamark, Encycl. Meth. Bot. I. p. 156. 



Erica Bryantha Thunb. Dissert. Eric. p. 15, n. 8; Willd. Sp. PI. II. 

 p. 386 ; Pers. Syn. PI. I. p. 424 ; Spreng. Syst. Veg. 11. p. 197. 



Menziesia Bryantha Swartz in Transact. Linn. Soc. X. (1811) p. 377, 



tab. 30, fig. B. 



Andromeda Bryanthus Pall. Fl. Ross. II. p. 57, tab. 74, fig. 1. 



Andromeda musciformis Poir. Encycl. Meth. Suppl. I. p. 353. 



Planta Ericce adonis, repens, serpylUfolio, fore roseo Steller ex Gmel. 

 Fl. Sib. IV. p. 132, tab. 57, fig. 3. 



Nom. Jap. Chishima-tsugazakura (T. Kawakami), Hime-tsugazahura 

 (T. Makino). 



Hah. Prov. RikuchiJ : Mt. Hayachine {TJ. Faurie 1894, Herb. Mus. 

 Paris, et Dr. ; T. 31aldno ! Aug. 3, 1905) ; Prov. Chishima (Kurile Isl.) : 

 Mt. Atoiya in Isl. Etrof {T. Kaivahami Aug. 1898). 



Rare. 



Cerastium (Strephodon, Recticapsulares),OXalidiflorum Makino spu, 

 nov. , 



Perennial, ctespitose ; the flowering stem attaining about 36 cm. ii^ 

 height, the numerous sterile stems much shorter than the flowering stem. 

 Rhizome- ramose, creeping, rooting. Stems slender, ascending, often genicu- 

 late below, terete, foliate throughout, pubscent with ascending hairs but 

 glanduloso-pubescent above, turged at nodes, viridescent ; internodes attain- 

 ing about 9 cm. or sometimes 13 cm. in length. Leaves opposite, erect-r 

 patent or spreading, lanceolate, but subspathulate in the inferior ones, 

 acuminate or acute, gradually attenuated .towards the sessile or subpetiolated 

 bases, entire and ciliated, thinly pubescent . with adpressed hairs on both 



