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206 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
published varietal name of 'truneatus." They all have leaves 
closely sessile by a broad, 3-5-nerved base, strongly plicate, 
inflated mature calyces with short broad teeth, subglobose villous 
anthers, and stipitate capsules. 
35. M. nepalensis Benth. in Wall. Cat. no. 3917. 1828; 
Scroph. Ind. 29. 1835; DC. Prodr. 10: 373. 1846; G. Don, 
Hist. Dichlam. Pl. 4: 554. 1838. 
M. assamicus Griff. in Madr. Jour. Sci. 4: 375. 1836; Notulae 
4: 99. 1854; Linnaea 12: litt. 199. 1838; Walp. Rep. 3: 277. 
1844-45. | 
M. tenellus Bunge, Pl. Enum. China, 49. 1831; Benth. DC. 
Prodr. 10: 373. 1846; Walp. Rep. 3: 277. 1844-45. 
M. formosana Hayata in Ic. Pl. Formos. 9: 79. 1920. 
A nearly glabrous perennial; stems quadrangular, the angles 
winged, slender, weak, often diffusely branched, rooting from 
the nodes; leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, 1,5-4 em. long, .5-2 em. 
broad, acute, saliently dentate, base cuneate or tapering gradu- 
ally to a short petiole, pinnately veined; pedicels slender, about 
as long as the leaves, occasionally pubescent; calyx cylindrical, 
7-10 mm. long, inflated in fruit and 1.1-1.4 cm. long, 3-7 mm. 
broad, usually somewhat constricted at the throat, teeth ciliate, 
nearly equal, truncate or short and broad with slender abruptly 
pointed tips, occasionally pubescent along the ribs, ribs some 
times slightly winged, throat oblique in some flowering specimens; 
corolla .8-2 em. long, yellow, funnelform, little exceeding the 
calyx, tube exserted, throat ampliate, densely bearded along the 
lower side, often dotted with red, lobes short, rounded, erect; 
stamens and style glabrous, included, stigma-lips equal, fim- 
briate; capsule oblong, placentae adherent to the apex; seeds 
oval, minutely papillate and occasionally with a few scattered 
hairs 
Distribution: wet places in Japan, China, and India. 
Specimens examined: 
Japan: Sapporo, 10 July, 1903, Arimoto (G); Yezo, Sapporo 
27 Aug., 1902, Arimoto (G) ; Sapporo, 25 Aug., 1887, Toku 
(PhiL); Hakone, Мау, 1886, Tokio Education Museum 9 
(U. S.); Aidzu, 7 Aug., 1879, Matsumura (U. S.). 
