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orbiculate lobes. Stamens 4, with the glabrous filiform filament and oblong 

 anther. Ovary broadly obovoid ; style erect, simple, included. Fruit 

 broadly obovoid. Ultimate bract adnate to the pedicel with the base, 

 «,mple in fruit, orbicular and obscurely 3-lobed, membranaceous, reticulato- 

 venose. 



Nom. Jap. Takane-ominaesM (nov.). 



Hab. Prov. Ibdri in Hokkaid5 : Mt. Makkarinupuri (common. M, 

 Kaioasaki, July 20, 1905). 



New to the Flora of Japan. I have a specimen, which I owe to the 

 kindness of Mr. Mitsujiro Kawasaki of Ise. 



Lozocalyx ambiguus Makino nom nov. 



Leonurus ambigutis Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XIII. (1899) p. Sl9. 



Perennial, attaining about 7| decim. in height. Rhizome shortly re- 

 peirt or ascending, ramose, ligneous, densely rooting. Stem erect, slender, 

 loosely ramose with slender simple and erect-patent branches, 4-gonous 

 with angles and flat faces, but the faces often slightly concave in branches, 

 softly piloso-pubescent with sub-reflexed pale hairs on angles but much 

 thinner in faces, viridescent, attaining about 5 ram. -across in the lower 

 portion; internodes jisually longer than leaves, attaining about 14cm. long 

 in the main stem. Leaves lato-ovate, but ovate in those of the floriferous 

 ramules, narrowly acuminato-produced with an acute point, truncato-cordate, 

 but truncato-cuneate or broadly cuneate in the superior ones, coarsely 

 dentate with acute or obtuse tipped deltoid or ovato-deltoid teeth, mem- 

 branaceous, softly pubescent with erect hairs on both surfaces, ciliated, 

 rugose, the lower leaves larger and attaining about 12^ cm. long, 9 cm. 

 broad ; midrib and veins impressed above, prominent beneath ; veins erect- 

 patent, loose; main veinlets loosely reticulato-anastomosing, but ultimate 

 yeinlets inconspicuous ; petiole narrow, long and attaining 4^ cm. long, but 

 much shorter in those of lihe upper leaves, shorter than the blade, softly pnbes- 

 cent with erect-patent hairs, narrowly canaliculate in front. Verticillaster 

 x^ggregately 1-4-flowered, axillary, extremely shortly peduncled. Flowers 

 erect'patent, very shortly pedicellate ; pedicel about l^ mm. long, pubernleBt, 

 the lateral ones bracteolate in the middle ; bracts and braoteoles minnte, 

 opposite, erect-patent, setaceiform, green, thinly pubescent, the former abont 

 3 nim. or more long, the latter about l|-2mm. long. Calyx obconically 

 ttibuloso-rcamipaDalate, unequally 24ipped, viridescent, rigidly herbaceoofi, 

 fubescent with 'erect-patent pale hairs on carinate costas and puberulent 



