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Perianth : the outer about 5-6 mm. long ; the inner longer and about 

 7 mm. or more long. Stamens about 11 mm. long. 



Norn. Jap. Wakegi. f 



Icon. Somoku-Dzusetsu, VI. fol. 34 recto. 



Hah. Prov. Musashi : Near Ogikiibo, cult. {T. Maldno\ May 14, 1905). 



This is not found wild but cultivated, and is much less common 

 than the type. 



Loxocalyx ambiguus Makino, vide supra. 



Add. Hah. Prov. Tosa in Shikoku : Taniai-yama in Zaisho-mura, 

 Karai-gori {Zenldchi Kumon\ commun, T. Yoshinaga, Sept. 11, 1904). 

 New to the Isl of Shikoku. 



Leonurus tuberiferus Makino sp. nov. 



A small perennial, 4-30 cm. high, tuberiferous and stoloniferous ; tuber 

 solitary, subterranean, thictk, oblong to ellipsoid, about 8-18 mm. long ; 

 roots fibrous ; rhizome filiform, ascending or repent, with a few or several 

 nodes, rooting ; stolon filiform, subterranean, nodes distant and with minute 

 scales. Stem erect, slender, usually laxly ramose, retrorse-spreadingly 

 pubescent, 4-gonous with obtuse angles and plane faces as well as the 

 branch ; internodes shorter or longer than leaves ; branches gracile, erect- 

 patent or ascending. Leaves opposite, petiolate, pubescent on both sides 

 and pilose on veins beneath, ciliated, oval-ovate, truncato-cuneate or some- 

 times truncate-cordate at the entire base, obtuse at the apex, regularly 

 dentato-crenate, thinly membranaceous, about l-3i cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide ; 

 midrib delicate ; veins about 3 on each side, very loose, subtri[)linerved 

 at the base ; veinlets inconspicuous ; petiole gracile, pubescent with ascend- 

 ingly patent hairs, shorter or longer than the blade, the longest one about 

 3 cm. long. Verticillasters axillary, loose, 1-3-flowered. Flowers erect or 

 erect-patent, shorter than leavt-s ; pedicel very short, pubescent, about 

 |-1 mm. long; bracts setaceiform, pubescent, equal to or longer than the 

 pedicel and situated at the base of it. C.ilyx obconically tubuloso-campanu- 

 late, obtuse at the base, pubescent with erect-patent few-celled hairs mixed 

 with very minute granular glands externally and ciliated, thinly puberulent 

 abi)ve internally, erect-patently 5-fid and somewhat 2-labiate, 7-10 mm. 

 long ; lobes shorter than the tube, deltoid-subulate, sharply spinescent-acu- 

 minate, S-costate, with accessory veins between costas, very loosely reticulate-? 



