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name,* and a marked variety of V. longifolia, near V. luxurians, Ledeb., but with the 

 leaves whitish-downy beneath and the racemes panicled. I have not seen Thunberg's 

 Veronica Virginica [V. Leptandra, Japonica, Steud.) ; but it would seem scarcely differ- 

 ent from the Linnsean, Eastern American species. Pedicularis restipinata, which extends 

 westward to the eastern borders of Europe, but is not found in Western America, 

 greatly resembles the Eastern American P. lanceolata. 



Verhenacece. Some of the Japanese species of Callicarpa are related to C. Americana 

 of the Southern Atlantic States ; the others are mostly of the Indian type. I suspect 

 that Thunberg's C Japonica is Siebold and Zuccarini's C. gracilis, rather than what 

 they take for it. 



One plant only of the small Eastern Australian and Poljiiesian family Myoporacece 

 occurs in Japan, \\z. Polycoelium hontioides, and this is a close representative of a 

 Sandwich Island species. 



Labiata. I have not seen Thunberg's Teucrium Japonicum ; but the name which 

 he at first applied to it suggests a resemblance to the common Eastern American 

 species. Of the Old-World genus Ajuga, there are three species in the collection ; one 

 appears to be a more villous variety of Buuge's A. ciliata of Northern China, and is 

 probably A. orientalis, Thunb. ; a second is clearly Thunberg's A. decumbens, and per- 

 haps Bentham's A. remota ; the third is a very small species, apparently new to bota- 

 nists, which as to floral characters might equally well be referred to Teiicrium.-\ At the 

 northern end of Jesso, Thgnms Serpyllum was met with. It is interesting to see how 

 closely this plant approaches the American continent on both sides (being in Greenland 

 also) without coming into it. At Simoda, and also at the Loo Choo Islands, Bentham's 

 Calamintha ? gracilis, of Java, is abundant. Technically this would be a Hedeoma, as 

 the posterior pair of stamens is abortive in all the flowers examined. Nepeta Glechoma 

 has developed into a very large form, J of which single specimens would naturally 

 be taken for a distinct species. There is an equally marked variety of Dracocephalum 



* Veronica Thunbergii (sp. nov.) : caulibus e basi prostrate adscendentibus validis bipedalibus crebre 

 sequaliter velutino-tomentosis ; foliis sessilibus ovatis subcordatis obtuse serratis subincisis molliter pubescen- 

 tibus ; racemis laxis plerumque oppositis ; pedicellis calyce suba3quilongis bractea subdimidio brevioribus ; 

 capsula plano-compressa orbiculato-obcordata transverse satis latiori glabra mai-gine ciliata. Hakodadi. 



t Ajuga PXGMiEA (sp. nov.) : glabella, effuse stolonifera, subacaulis ; foliis rosulato-confertis spathulatis 

 sinuatis repandisve basi in petiolum attenuatis flores axillares plerumque superantibus ; calycis lobis oblongis 

 obtusis ; corollffi coeruleoe tubo longe exserto, labio postico bipartite lobis lateralibus paullo breviore, antico lobo 

 intermedio emarginato-bifido. Simoda ? 



t Nepota Glechoma, var. ghandis : foliis sesqui-bipollicaribus sinu stepius levi ; calyce magis campanu- 

 lato, dentibus tubo dimidio brevioribus ; corolla in maximis poUicari, tubo exserto. Hakodadi. 



