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the lower ones larger and leafy, serrate or inciso-serrate, the basal 

 ones usually confused with the normal cauline leaves. Flowers 

 about 10-12mm. across, dilute violaceous ; pedicels erect-patent, 

 but directed upwards in fruit, gracile, longer than the flowers and 

 fruits. Calyx deeply 4-parted, green, 4-6mm. long ; tube very 

 short ; segments erect-patent, spathulately linear-lanceolate, 

 acute or acutish, ciliated, usually 3-nerved. Corolla longer than 

 the calyx, deeply 4-parted ; tube very short, minutely puberulent 

 internally ; limb patulous, segments unequal in size, obtuse or 

 acutish, ciliated on the basal margins, the upper segment larger, 

 subrhombeo-orbicular, violaceous striae ramose and delicate but 

 conspicuous; the lateral segments slightly oblique in form, oval- 

 orbicular or ovate-oval, striae lesser ; the lower segment smallest, 

 elliptical, acutish, striae obscure. Stamens 2, exserted, longer 

 than the corolla, about 9mm. long ; filament filiform, gla- 

 brous ; anther oblong-ovate, biauriculate at the base. Ovary 

 minute, oval or rounded, compressed, glabrous, 1mm. long, with 

 an annular disk at the base ; style long, filifom, glabrous, about 

 10mm. long. Capsule oval-obcordate with a shallow sinus, com- 

 pressed, turgidulous, glabrous, slightly shorter than or equal to 

 the persistent calyx, 4-6mm. long, 3|4mm. broad ; carpels thinly 

 coriaceous, loosely reticulated- veined. Seeds obovoid-orbicu- 

 la.te, much compressed, subplano-convex, fulvo-umber in colour. 



Nom. Jap. Daisen-kuwagata (nov.). 



Hah. Prov. Hoki in Chugoku : Mt. Daisen (S. Hori ! Aug. 3, 

 1889 ; T. Makino ! Aug. 20, 1906) ; Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, 

 cultivated from Mt. Daisen, prov. Hoki (K. Tamura ! May 8, 

 1904 ; T. Makino ! May 14, 1903). 



An intermediate species between Veronica Schmidtiana Regel 

 and V senanensis Maxim. 



Veronica (Yeronicastrum) Schmidtiana Regel. 



a. typica Makino. (Fig. IX. mag.) 



Veronica Schmidtiana Regel, 'Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. (1864), 

 p. 22' ; F. Schmidt, Reis. im Amur. u. Ins. Sachal. (1868), p. 162; 

 Herder, PL Radd. Monopet. IV. 6, p. 34 ; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. 

 XII. p. 501, pro parte. 



