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collected when the flowering season was nearly over. I exammed 

 a considerable number of the specimens, but I could not find 

 more than one or two flowers upon which the description and 

 figures in my papar could be based. It may be well conjectured 

 that my plant in tlie normal state of its flowers may have a five- 

 lobed corolla witli four stamens. I therefore think it better to 

 transfer my plant from Logan iacea3 to Scrophularinea?, 

 referring it to Hemiphragma lieterophjlla Wall. Another plant 

 which I may here mention, is ElUsiophi/Uum pimiatum Making, 

 which was referred to Hydrophyllaceœ, but, in the present 

 work, is transferred to Scrophularineœ. In 1871, Maximowicz 

 established the same genus upon a Japanese plant in '' Mel. Biol. 

 Vol. XIII. p. 18", then named by him as E. reptans. It is very 

 probably to be referred to Polemoniacese, because of its seeds 

 which produce a considerable amount of mucilage in the moist 

 condition, — a character which is all but peculiar to the same family. 

 The plant has also a close relation with Hydrophyllacese, so 

 far as the leaves and flowers are concerned. It seemed, therefore, 

 rather questionable to Maximowicz himself, to what family the 

 present genus should be referred. In 1876, the same genus was 

 referred to Hydrophyllaceoo by Bentham and Hookee. f. in their 

 "Genera Plantarum '* II. p. 829. A little later, in 1890, it was 

 referred to Scrophularineœ by Bâillon in " Bull. Soc. Linn. 

 Paris, No. 103." Hero, he expressed his opinion that tlie doubtful 

 genus belongs neither to l^olemoniacea3 nor to Ilydrophyllaceœ, 

 but to Scropliularinea). Moreover, he stated that its nearest 

 01 kill is Litoi'cllii of the same family. In 1892, it was again re- 

 ferred to Ilydrop li y llaceae by Petee in " Engl. u. Peantl. Nat. Pfl.- 

 i'am. IV. o-a, p. Go." As to the nomenclature of tlie plant, there had 

 been no difliculty, until Mr. T. Makino (1900) called his attention 



