May 1910.] 



MAKINO.— OBSEBV. ON THE FLORA OF JAPAN. 



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membranaceous marcescent calyx, with a persistent style at the 

 top, about 1mm. across, bilocular, with thinly membranaceous 

 carpels. Seeds many, closed placed, clavato-linear, obtuse at 

 the top, attenuated below, erect or ascending. 



Nom. Jap. Hime-kikashigusa (T. Makino). 



Hah. Prov. Tosa : Iwamedzi in Takaoka-gori (T. Makino ! 

 Oct. 22, 1892) ; Prov. Shimoosa : Near Usui, side by Lake Imba 

 (T. Makino I Sept. 10, 1895). 



Veronica (Veronicastrum) daisenensis Makino, sp. nov. 

 (Fig. VIII. mag.) 



A short-stemmed perennial, attaining about 25cm. in height 

 including the raceme, ca^spitoso-ramose and subsuffruticose at 

 the base, densely rooting, nearly glabrous in leaves and thinly 

 pubescent in the stems, rachises, pedicels and calyx. Leaves 

 dense, opposite, but often subalternate in the superior ones, long- 

 (the upper short-) petiolate, triangularly ovate to ovato-lanceo- 

 late, truncate or truncato-subcordate and short-cuneate in centre 

 at the base, acute or subobtuse at the apex, lobate with closed 

 or open obtuse small sinuses and the lobes ovate with sharply 

 or obtusely inciso-serrate teeth, membranaceous, pallid-green in 

 recent, subquinquenerved at 

 the base, with loose veins, 

 about lj-7cm. long, §-3 J 

 cm. broad ; petiole slender, 

 attaining about 7cm. long, 

 glabrous or thin-pubescent. 

 Raceme simple but some- 

 times ramose at the base, 

 erect, much exserted above 

 the leaves, multiflorous, 

 sub densely fructiferous and 

 elongated measuring about 

 4J— 16cm. in length ; bract 

 linear-lanceolate, or lan- 

 ceolate, entire, J-f as long 

 as the fructiferous pedicels, 



Fig. Vlir. 



