30 THE JOURNAL OF JAPANESE BOTANY. l"^'°i- ™- ^o- »■ 



liab. JAPAN, cultivated, rare, 

 var. parvo-acuniinatum Making, nov. var. 



Annual, herbaceous, ramose. Fruit erect, numerous, small, cylindrical-^ 

 linear, attenuated above, about 3 cm. Ions;, red when mature, very acrid. 

 Nom. Jap. Talca-no-tsnme. 

 Hah. JAPAN, cultivated. 



Xanthoxylum piperitum DC, var. brevispinum Making, nov. var. 



Prickles very short. 



Nom. Jap. Yatna-<(s(iJ:irr(i-aii;</iö (nov.). 



Hah. Prov. SIIINANO (T. Making!); Prov. ECHIGO (T. Making!). 



Clinopodium japonicum Making, nov. sp. 



Perennial ; rhizome short, rooting. Stems caespitose, attaining 7 decim. 

 long, erect or ascending, slender, leafy throughout, tetragonous, viridescent,^ 

 shortly loose-ramose, thinly pubescent on the angles but hairs denser in the 

 nodes ; internode slender, slightly turgid above. Leaves opposite, petiolate, 

 loose, ovate or narrowly ovate, obtuse or acute at the apex, obtuse or acute 

 at the base, coarsely crenate or serrate excepting the basal portion, thinly 

 herbaceous, green and very thinly pubescent and with dense-puberulent midrib 

 and veins above, paler and very thinly pubescent on the midrib and veins 

 beneath, attaining about 5^ cm. long, 3 J cm. wide ; midrib prominent beneath ; 

 veins pinnate, erect-patent, 6-8 on each side; petiole about 1-1^^ cm. long, 

 densely pubescent in front and ciliated on margin. Verticillasters lj-2|-cm. 

 across, approximate above forming a terminal spike, remote below, many- 

 flowered ; rachis retrorsely pubecsent with white hairs ; bracts leafy, narrowly 

 ovate. Flowers small, very shortly pedicellate ; pedicel very minutely pu- 

 berulent; bracteoles and superior bracteoles linear-subulate, loosely long-ciliated 

 with spreading hairs, viridescent, shorter than the calyx. Calyx herbaceous, 

 about 5 mm. long, villoso-pubescent with white hairs, viridescent, often tinged 

 with purplish above, persistent and somewhat accrescent after flowering ; tube 

 slightly arcuate downwards, tubular, 13-nerved and l3-ril)bed externally, very 

 thinly puberulent above internally ; limb shorter than the tube, 5-lobed, 2- 

 lipped ; lobes not sjireading, 3-nerved, ciliated, sharply pointed ; upper lip trifid, 

 erect-patent, lobes triangular-subulate, IJ mm. long ; lower lip deeply parted, 

 erect, subulate, long-tapering. Corolla exserted, al)Out 9 mm. long, nearljr 

 white with the shade of purple; tube 6mm. long, narrow, enlarged above, 

 more or less suddenly much so in the superior portion, pale but very light 

 purple (nearly white), puberulent with white patent hairs above externally, 

 pubescent with vertical '2 lines of patent white hairs under the lower lip inter- 

 nally, slightly pubescent on both sides under the throat which is stained with 

 light purple ; upper lip erect, oval, with a notch at the apex, 2 mm. wide ; 

 lower lip spreading, 3-parted, 5 mm. broad ; lateral lobes oval, rounded at the 

 apex, entire ; midlobe larger, sub-obcordate, sub-emarginate at the apex, entire, 

 2j mm. broad. Stamens didynamous, 2 shorter stamens equal to the throat 



