LARIATS. 87 



s BENTH. 



Lophanthus fonnosanus HAY ATA sp. uov.=Lopkanthus rugosus HAY ATA 

 (Jen. Ind. p. 56. (11011 FISCII. et MEY.) Herba basi suffruticosa circ. 60cm. longa 

 erccta recta tetragona 3-4 mm. lata glabra. Folia opj>osita tenuitcr mem- 

 bra nacea'ovatotriangularia 7-9 cm. longa 4-4-| cm. lata apice acuminata basi 

 late truncata vel leviter cordata margine praeter basin acumenque crcnato- 

 dentata, dentibus obtusissimis vel serni-rotundatis ascendentibus, supra glabra 

 subtus tcnuiter liirsuta impresso-purictata, subtus pallidiora, petiolis 2-3 cm. 

 longis. Racemi terminales cyliridrici, verticillastris a sc 1-2 cm. remotis sur- 

 sum plus approximatis, pedunculis racemorum 3-4 cm. longis, verticillastris 

 sessilibus vel pedunculatis 5-10-floratis, pedicellis - 1 nun. longis glabris. Calyx 

 tubuloso-campanulatus tenuitcr hirsutus vel glaber 7 nun. longus 3 mm. latus 

 15-nervatus apicc 5-lobatus, lobis oblongo-triangularibus 3mm. longis 1 J mm. latis 

 apice acuminatis secus murginem et medium costatis basi liaud contractis in- 

 tus glabris. Corolla tubulosa sursum 7 mm. longa 2-3 mm. lata apice breviter 

 extus brevissime liirsuta 2-labiata, labro superiore late rotundato 2 mm. lato 1 

 mm. longo apice 2-lobato, lobis ^ mm. longis, labro inferiore latissimo 3-loba- 

 to, lobo medio latissimc rotundato 3 mm. lato 1-| mm. longo apice rotundato 

 vel tenuiter emarginato basi contracto, lobis lateralibus minutis late rotundatis 

 ^ mm. longis. Stamina 4 didynama, anterioribus longioribus, erecta supra 

 labrum superius exscrta, untlieris glabris ol)longis ? loculis parallelis, filainentis 

 glabris, stylo validiusculo apice breviter 2-fido, rarnis sub^quilongis. Ovarium 

 4-pirtitum, partibus obovoidcis apice liirsutis vel pilis fosciculatis instructis. 

 Discus sub ovario aiiuularis ^ mm. altus aiiteriore elevatus. 



HAB. Suislm, Shusliugai, leg. C. OWATARI, Jan. 1898. 



Differs from L. rugosus, by the much longer calyx and corolla. According 

 to BRIQUET (in Pflanzenfamilien IV-3 a, ]). 233), Agastcwlie is separated from 

 Loplianthus by the position of stamens. In the former, the posterior stamens 

 are descending, while the anterior ones are ascending ; in the latter genus, the 

 posterior stamens are ascending, while the anterior ones more or less straight- 

 patent. In my opinion, however, these differences in the position of stamens 

 arc not to be regarded as a sufficient character by which the two genera may 



