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Fructiferous raceme peiidenty attaining 15cm. long including the 

 peduncle ; rachis slender^ puberulent ; pedicels erect-patent, stout- 

 filiform, glabrous or nearly so, 7-13mm. long. Samaras man}', 

 rather loosely or subdenseiy disposed ; loculi subhorizontal, 

 elliptical, 6-8mm. long, 3J-5mm. broad, thinly puberulent or gla- 

 brate; veins inconspicuous ; wings divergent, oblong or obovato- 

 oblong, attenuated at the base, obtuse and sometimes subangulate 

 at the apex, thin, viridescent, 10-19mm. long, 4— 9mm. broad. 



Nom. Jap. Shima-urikayede (nov.). 



Hab. Amami Oshima (T. ltd ! July 17, 1894 ; Keisuke Ta- 

 mura ! March 27, 1901 ; T.Kamiya ! April 1910); Prov. Osumi : 

 Yaku-shima (T. Makino ! Sept. 1909). 



An intermediate species between Acer capillipes Maxim, and 

 A. pectinatum Wall. This forms a natural group with A. 

 capillipes Maxim, and A. ru£nerve Sieb. et Zucc, and their trunks, 

 branches, leaves and inflorescences resemble each other. 



Swertia japonica (Schult.) Makino, nom. nov. (Pig. 

 XIX.) 



Gentiana ? japonica Schult. Syst. Yeg. YI. (1820), p. 174. 



Ophelia japonica Griseb. Gen. et. Sp. Gent. (1839), p. 322. 



Swertia rotata Thunb. Fl. Jap. (1784), p. 115 ; Sieb. Syn. 

 PL Oecon. Jap. in Yerh. Genoot. XII. (1830), p. 37 ; Griseb. in 

 DC. Prodr. IX. (1845), p. 134, non Linn. 



Pleurogyne rotata Sieb. et Zucc. in Abhandl. Akad. Muench. 

 IV. 3 (1846), p. 159 ; Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. (1866-67), p. 288 ; 

 Pranch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. (1875), p. 324, non Griseb. 

 _•_. Ophelia diluta Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 398 (1874), pro 

 parte, non Ledeb. 



Ophelia diluta Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. II. (1879), 

 p. 450, non Ledeb. 



Swertia chinensis a vulgaris Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, 

 XVII. (1903), p. 55. 



Biennial, about 7— 39cm. in height, usually fastigiately 

 ramose with ascendingly erect branches from the base, glabrous ; 

 stem and branches slender, often gracile, tetragonous with the 

 very narrowly alate angles, often dark-purple. Leaves opposite, 



