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The amalgamation of the genus Schizocodon to Shortia, as 

 has been done by 0. Kuntze, is, in my opinion, much advisable. 



Bergia (Bergiotypus) ammannioides Roxb. 'Hort Bengal. 

 p. 34,' et Fl. Ind. II. p. 457; Roth, 'Nov. PL Sp. p. 219 1 ; DC. 

 Prodr. I. p. 390; Spreng. Syst. Yeg. II. p. 423; Wight in Hook. 

 Bot. Misc. III. p. 93, Suppl. tab. 28; Wight, 111. Ind. Bot. tab. 

 25 a; Walp. Repert. Bot. Syst. I. p. 285; Benth. Fl. Austral. 

 I. i). 180; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. I. p. 152; Dyer in Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. I. p. 251; Hance in Journ. Bot. (1878) p. 225 ; 

 Forbes et Ilcmsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXIII. p. 72; Kuntze, 

 Rev. Gen. PI. I. p. 58. 



Elatine ammannioides Wight et Arn. Prodr. I. (1834) p. 41; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Batav. I. 2, p. 119; F. Muell. Fragm. Phyt. 

 Austral. II. p. 147. 



Sagina ammannioides Heyne 'ex Wall. Cat. n. 7504.' 



Bergia pentandra Cambess. 'ex Guill. et Perr. Tent. Fl. 

 Senegamb. p. 42, tab. 12.' 



Leaves lj-4cm. long, 5— 17 mm. broad, oblong-oblanceolate, 

 cuneately attenuated below into a short petiole. 



Xom. Jap. Shimabara-so (nov.). 



Prov. Hizex (M. Yamasakil Aug. 10, 1906). 



New to the Flora of Japan. Japanese one is larger than 

 the type. 



Veronica cana Wall. var. Takedana Makino var. nov. 



Caespitose, attaining about 14 cm. in height, with ascending 

 or creel few or main- stems. Leaves elliptical-ovate to oblong- 

 ovate. Racemes short, 1-few-flowered ; flower whitish, or 

 with purple streaks. Calyx-lobes shorter than the capsule, 

 spathulato-oblong or oblanceolate, ciliated. 



Xom. Jap. Ko'hinvagata (nov.). 



I/.'ih. Japan. 



This is found in the mountains in the southern parts of Japan. 



var. decumbens Makino var. nov. 



