34 THE JOURNAL OF JAPANESE BOTANY. \jo\. in. No. 9. 



Hah. JAPAN, wild, rare. 



Elaeagnus iseusis Making, sp. nov. 



Semi-deciduous shrub, many-branched ; branch and branchlet often spread- 

 ing and brown-bay, the latter more or less flexuous, subangulate ; shoot much 

 elongate, slightly flexuous, bay-coloured, with spreading spinescent branchlets. 

 Leaves alternate, petiolate, oblong-lanceolate or oljlanceolate, shortly attenuated 

 above with an ol)tuse tip, cuneato-acute at the base, entire, chartaceo-coriaceous , 

 deep-green and glabrous above, argentato-lepidote and often dispersed with 

 sooty-fulvous scurfs beneath, 4-82 cm. long, lf-3cm. broad; midrib prominent 

 beneath ; veins very loose, weak, about 8-10 on each side, erect-patent, not 

 conspicuous ; petiole about 5-8 mm. long, covered with appressed sooty-fulvous 

 scurfs. Flower 



Nom. Jap. Isuzu-gumi (nov.). 



Hab. Prov. ISE, southern. 



This species comes near to E. tnultiflora Thunb. 



Elaeagnus multiflora Thunb. FL Jap. j». 66, var. orbiculata Marino, 

 nov. var. 



Leaves orbiculate, oval, or elliptical. 

 Nom. Jap. Mariiha-natsugumi (nov.). 

 Hah. Prov. SAGAMI (T. Making ! ). 



Veronica Anagallis L. var, Savatieri Making, nov. var. 



A stout perennial, soboliferous, succulent, attaining about 8 decim. in height, 

 glabrous. Stem erect, ramose above or from the base, the largest one about 

 14 mm. acro.-s ; internode rather long. Branches erect-patent, foliiferous and 

 racemiferous. Leaves opposite, sessile, semi-amplexicaul and often auriculated 

 at the base, ovato-lanceolate or narrowly deltoid-ovate, acuminate or shortly 

 so, obtuse to cordate at the base, obscurely denticulated to nearly entire, 

 flaccid when fresh, thinly membranaceous w^hen dried, spreading or more or 

 less reflexed, 3-llj cm. long, l^-SJ cm. broad; veins very loose, ascending; 

 basal leaves sessile or short-petiolate, obovato-oblong, oblong, or narrowly 

 ovate, obtuse at the apex and base, obscurely crenate. Racemes erect-patently 

 ascending, peduncled, many-flowered, elongating in fruit and attaining 12 cm. 

 long, longer than the peduncle ; rachis slender ; l^racts linear-lanceolate or 

 lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, shorter than pedicels, but the lower ones 

 larger and slightly longer than it, green. Flower 6-7 mm. across ; pedicels 

 gracile, spreading, longer than flowers. Calyx 4-parted, 83 mm. long in flower, 

 but accrescent in fruit and 5 mm. long ; lobes erect-patent, ovate, acute at the 

 apex, the lower 2 slightly longer. Corolla light violet, deciduous ; the superior 

 lobe broadest, depressedly rhombic-ovato-orbicular, obtusely angled at the apex, 

 with 7 violet line 5 ; the lateral two lobes depressed-rotund, rounded at the apex, 

 slightly violet-veined (colour deeper towards the upper side) ; the lower one 



