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drab hairs, -4-10 mm. long. Sepals o, small, green, ovate to ovato-orbicular, 

 obtuse, densely or rather thinly pilose with white appressed hairs externally, 

 glabrous internally, ciliated, 2-4 mm. long. Corolla infundibuliform ; tube 

 short and campanulate ; lobes 5, rounded or retuse at the apex, the posterior 

 3 oval or rounded-oval, the anterior 2 elliptical. Stamens 10, unequal, the 

 longest ones equal to the corolla in length ; filament declinate, curved up- 

 wards above, filiform, white-glandular towards the base ; anther oval. Style 

 exserted, longer than the stamens, declinate, arcuate upwards, glabrous, with 

 a thick stigma; ovary ovoid, densely hirsute. Capsule about 6-7 mm. long; 

 valves 5, broadly subulate, hard, jiilose dorsally. 



Norn. Jap. Ashitcüca-tsutsvji. 



Hd). Prov. SCRUGA : Mt. Ashitaka (Tomitako Komiyama!; Taketaro 

 Sawada! June 10, 1925.) 



This species is very closely allied to Rh. tosaense Making, but difliers chiefly 

 from the latter by the number of the stamens. I have named this new 

 Azalea in honour of Mr. Tomitaro Komiyama, who first found it. For the 

 materials my shanks are due to Mr. Taketaro Saw.vda of Hakone, prov. 

 Sagami. 



Polygala Reinii Fhanch. et Sav. var. angustifolia Makino, nov. var. 

 Leave,< oblong-lanceolate or angustately oblong, acute or acuminate at the 

 apex, about 7-16 cm. long, 2-4icm. broad. 

 Xom. Jap. Nii'iaha-kakinohagusa. 

 Hah. Prov. KII : Koyasan (Yoshimi Xumajiri ! June 11, 1922.) 



Pycnostelma paniculatum (Bunge) K. ScnuM. var. latifoliuni Marino, 

 nov. var. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, angustato-lanceolate in the su])erior 

 ones, the broadest one attaining about 3 cm. in width. 



Nom. Jap. Hiroha-suzusaiko. 



Hah. Prov. KII : Kamihaya in Nishimuro-gori (Nuizo Ui ! May 1914.) 



Aster Ohtanus Makino, nov. sp. (Fig. II.' 



Perennial, about S^-IJ decim. in hight ; rhizome short, more or less thick. 

 Stem erect, slender, angulate, glabrous, viridescent. Leaves alternate, loosely 

 arranged, petiolate, but sessile or nearly so in the superior ones, lanceolate 

 or angustately lanceolate, acuminate with a calloso-acute tip, narrowly cuneate 

 below, remotely mucronately calloso-denticulate, thickly chartaceous, green 

 and scalji'ous on margin in the upper surface, paler and very thinly hairy 

 beneath, about 6-12 cm. long including the petiole, about 7-12 mm. broad, 

 diminished in size and passed into the bracts in the inflorescence ; midrib 

 slender, prominent beneath, often slenderly impressed above when dry ; veins 

 very loose, ascending ; veinlets laxly reticulated beneath. Cyme terminal, 

 few to subnumerous-flowered, laxly ramose with the erect-patent slender 

 branches with bracts and minute bracteoles. Heads laxly disposed, long- 



