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stems with ascending branches, spathulate leaves in whorls of four, 

 and few-flowered cymes of yellow flowers distinguish it. The follow- 

 ing account is condensed from the original description and figure. 



Description. — A small, glabrous, caespitose perennial. Roots fibrous. 

 Stems creeping, with erect or ascending simple branches 2 to 5 inches high, 

 round, light green, purplish and rooting at base. Leaves 4- (occasionally 5-)' 

 verticillate, or the upper ones alternate, shorter than the intemodes, those of the 



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Fig. J28. — 5. Zentaro-Tashiroi Makino. 



barren shoots and lower part of flowering shoots spathulate-obovate, obtuse or 

 subretuse at apex, attenuated into a petiole, largest above, upper leaves of 

 flowering shoots spathulate-linear. obtuse or acute, narrower below, i inch long 

 Intlorescence a 2- or 3-branched few-flowered cyme, branches 2- to 3-flowered' 

 bracts linear, green. Flowers shovt-staXked. J inch diameter, yeUow. SePcUs un- 

 !fi -^ Jinear-lanceolate,.blunt. Petals wide-spreading, ovate-lanceolate, 



^if^i^ *^!J^ v^*®-o ^1'^"^'^^ scarcely shorter than the petals, filaments yellow. 

 Cn.^^ reddish. Scales minute, spathulate-oblong. truncate-rounded at apex. 

 n^rStS ^'■??*'. lanceolate, connate below, greenish- yellow ; styles slender, i the 

 ovanea. iiruit spreading. 



Flowers May. ? Hardy. 



Habitat.— Japan. Named after the finder, who obtained it in 

 the province of Tsushima m 1909. 



