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stock), pale-caerulescent, the pistillate one smaller ; pedicel filiform, retrorsely 

 thin-puberulent, l|-5 mm. long. Calyx straight, shorter or longer than 

 pedicels, tubuloso-campanulate, obtuse at the base, 2-2J mm. long in that 

 of the pistillate flower but 2-3 J mm. long in that of the hermaphrodite 

 flower, glabrous, viridescent, herbaceous, glanduloso-punctate, nearly equally 

 5- sometimes 4-fid, closely 12-14-costate (costas elevated and obtuse in 

 the back) externally, sulcate between costas ; lobes erect, deltoid-ovate, 

 obtuse or acutish, entire and often very slightly scabro-ciliolated on margin, 

 3-nerved, i-lj mm. long. Corolla exserted, 4-5J mm. long in that of the 

 hermaphrodite flower, but smaller and 3-3J mm. in that of the pistillate 

 ^flower, 4-fid with erect-patent lobes, glabrous ; the tube very slightly exserted, 

 tubuloso-campanulate in that of the hermaphrodite flower, but tubular in that 

 of the pistillate flower, pubescent within or only so on the anterior side; 

 lobes of the lower lip elliptical, rouuded or obtuse at the apex, entire or 

 irregularly crenulated ; lobes of the upper lip emarginate or bilobed or 

 rounded, slightly longer than those of the lower lip. Stamens 4, exserted, 

 erect, inserted on the upper part of the corolla-tube, glabrous, about 2-4J mm. 

 long, the anterior pair somewhat longer ; filament filiform, glabrous ; anthers 

 apart one another, oval-ovate, rounded-obtuse at apex, anther-cells parallel ; 

 those of the pistillate flower rudimentary, very minute, erect, inserted under 

 the throat, with the short filament. Style exserted, equal to or a little ex- 

 ceeding the stamens, filiform, glabrous ; stigma bifid, branches equal or some- 

 what unequal, oblong-lanceolate, or oblong-subulate, obtuse ; ovary-lobes 

 erect, equal, ovoid-ellipsoid, minute ; disk (gynophore) equal, very slightly 

 longer than the ovary, contracted into a rounded base. Nutlets entirely in- 

 cluded within the persistent ellipsoid costate calyx, erect, ovoid, smooth, 

 1 mm. long, often truncate at the base, longer than the disk (gynophore). 



Nom. Jap. Hime-megusa, Hime-hakka. 



Hab. Hokkaido (L. Boehmer ! herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, June 

 1874); Prov. Tokachi : Tobero (K. Miyabe\ herb. ibid. Aug. 16, 1884); 

 Prov. Shimotsuke : Nikko (Herb. ! ibid.) ; Prov. Ivvaki : Haramachi (S. 

 Ikenol herb. ibid. Aug. 16, 1890; T. Makinol Aug. 16, 1890), Fukuura- 

 nmra (T. Makinol Aug. 16, 1890), Tatsuta-mura (T. Makinol Aug. 15, 

 1890); Prov. Shimoosa : Side of Junsai-numa in Konodai ( T. Mukino ! Sept. 

 1894); Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, Bot. Gard. Koishikawa, cult. (Herb.! ibid. 

 Aug. 1878, Aug. 23, Sept. 8, 1880), Misaki-cho in Tokyo (T. Makino\ 

 July 1884); Prov. Mikawa : Near Kameyama in Atsumi-gori (T. MuldnoX 

 Oct, 27, 1893). 



This species should be referred to the genus of Mentha. 



