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Norn. Jap. Hosoba-lcikagi (nov). 



Hab. Prov. Aw A in Shikokn : Kamo in Yoshii-mnra (F. Nishimotol 

 Sept. 15, 1904). 



Circaea cardiophylla Makino sp. nov. (An C. cordata Eoyle ?) 



Circcea mollis Savat. in Iinuma's Somoku-Dzusetsu, ed. 2, I. n. 37, 

 non Sieb. et Zucc. 



<7*rco?a corcfato Catal. Herb. Coll. Sc. Imp. Univ. Tokyo (1886) p. 75. 



Stoloniferous. Stem attaining about 9Jdeeim. in height, erect, terete, 

 patently piloso-pubescent, simple or sometimes ramose. Leaves 5-12 cm. 

 long, 3-8 cm. wide, long-petiolate, cordate, oval-cordate, or ovato-cordate, 

 acuminate, repand-dentate with a calloso-mucronate point, membranaceous, 

 piloso-pnbescent between veins and shortly pubescent on veins and midrib 

 on both surfaces, ciliated on margin ; veins about 10-13 on each side ; 

 petiole usually shorter than the blade, about 1-J-8-J cm. long, patently 

 piloso-pnbescent. Racemes towards the top, loosely placed, terminal and 

 lateral, sometimes forming a loose panicle, many-flowered, the lateral ones 

 spreading or erect-patent; rachis slender, about 2-13 cm. long, slender, 

 patently piloso-pubescent ; bract very minute, subtending each pedicel and much 

 shorter than it, filiform, reflexed, the lower few ones sometimes foliaceous 

 and attaining about 11 mm. long. Flowers small, subdense, but laxer in 

 fruit ; pedicel patent but deflexed in fruit, about 1— 2-J mm. long, patently 

 glanduloso-pubescent. Calyx-lobes patent then reflexed, elliptical, obtuse, 

 concave, pilose dorsally, green, 2-3 mm. long : the tube obconical, patently 

 pilose, §-1 mm. long. Petals white, shorter than the calyx-lobes, broadly 

 obovate, very shortly unguiculate, deeply 2-lobed, 1^-2-1 mm. long; lobes 

 obovate or obovato-orbiculate. Stamens longer than the calyx-lobes, gla- 

 brous, 2-^-4 mm. long; filament filiform; anther orbiculate, about 1mm. 

 long. Style filiform, glabrous, longer than the stamens ; stigma thick, 

 subbilobato-capitate. Ovary rounded, densely covered with hooked long 

 hairs, equal to the pedicel in length, 1^-2 mm. long, 2-celled, each cell 

 with single ovule. Fruit rounded or oval-subpyriform, rounded obtuse or 

 acute and often hardly unequal at the base, 2-3 mm. long, reflexed, cover- 

 ed with hooked long hairs, slightly longer than the pedicel. 



Norn. Jap. Oranda-goshitsu, TJsliitahi-so. 



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

 1874) ; Prov. Ishikari : Sapporo {R. Yatabe ! herb. ibid. July 29, 1878), 



