86 LABIATE. 



glabrous and minutely punctate on both sides, bright shining green above, 

 paler and often stained with purple beneath. Racemes terminal, 3-4 inches 

 long, flowers opposite, the pairs ^-, | inch distant. Bracts rhomboids!, 1 to 1J 

 line long, -f line broad, like the pedicels and the calyx very minutely puberul- 

 ous, green. Pedicels 2 lines long, green. Calyx * inch long, green, the shield 

 on its upper lip subquadrate with rounded angles, about | inch long and 

 broad. Corolla 1 to ^ inch long, pubescent with gland-tipped hairs, the U] >per 

 lip ^ inch long, blue with a violaceous tinge, the lower lip transverse, broadly 

 rounded, and slightly emarginate in front, ^ inch broad, white, slightly tinted 

 with blue ; the tube is white, with a pale greenish tinge." 



" S. formosana is closely allied to S. javanica, JUNGHUHX, but that is a 

 taller plant, attaining a height of 3 feet." 



The species above mentioned is recorded from Formosa ; but we have 

 never seen the plant in the island. It is somewhat near to S. rubropunctata* 



v,_ 



in the punctate leaves, but differs from it in the much larger leaves and looser 

 racemes. 



~ :: ~ Scntellaria rubropunctata HAYATA sp. nov. llerba basi leviter procumbens sursmn erecta 

 partibus erectis 20-40 cm. longis depresso-villosis rec:tis a basi usque ad apicem foliatis. Folia 

 opposita membranacea triangularia vel triangulari-ovata 2-J- cm. longa 11-2 cm. lata apice obtusa 

 basi late truncata vel acuta rarius leviter cordata margine praeter basin serrata, serris trian- 

 gularibus ascendentibus supra brevissime parcissime hirsuta subtus tenuiter velutinosa subtus minu- 

 tissime rubro-punctata, petiolis l]-2Jcm. longis hirsiitis. Kacemi ad apicem raulis vel ramorum 

 terminales 5cm. longi subsessiles, floribus oppositis, bracteis minutis oblique spathulatis 2-J rum. 

 longis 1-J mm. latis apice rotundatis basi cuneato-attenuatis utraque pagine glabris margine cilio- 

 latis, pedicellis 1 mm. longis hirsutis. Calyx oblique carnpanulatus 1-J mm. longus 2 mm. latus 

 extus hirsutus intus glaber sequaliter labiatus, labris brevissimis latissimis, labro posteriore dorsc^ 

 scutello instructo, scutello rottindato 1-1- mm. longo. Corolla erecta 13nm). longa, tubo 10 mm. 

 longo basi anteriore gibboso, limbo 2-labiato, labro superiore 3-lobato, lobo medio cuculliformi, lobis 

 lateralibus erectis oblique triangularibus 3 mm. latis 2 mm. longis apice obtusissimis, labro inferiore 

 subrotundato 3 mm. longo. Stamina 4 didynama, anterioribus brevioribus, sub labro superiorc 

 ascendentia, antheris glabris cordatis, loculis subparallelis margine ciliolatis. Stylus apice 2-fidus, 

 ramo posteriore obsoleto. Ovarium glabrurn 4-partitum, partibus otovoideis, gynophoris J mm. 

 longis ; discus infra gynophorium situs \ mm altus anteriore in glandam tumens. 



HAH. Loo-choo : Okinawa, leg. Y. TASHIKO, No. 8 et 7. 



Near S. formosana N. E. BKOAVN, but different from it by the much smaller leaves and denser 

 racemes. 



