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smooth, 2\- nearly 4 mm. across, purple, more or less depres- 

 sedly globose, 5-parted ; lobes closed, rotund-ovate, obtuse or 

 subobtuse, convex and ecarinate in the back but when dry sub- 

 carinate, concave within. Stamens not exserted ; filament an- 

 gustato-subulate. Utricle rounded, depressed ; pericarp closely 

 adherent to the seed ; style very short ; stigmas 2, subulate ; 

 rudimentary ovary subglobose and fleshy in fruit. Seed hori- 

 zontal, lenticular, convex on both surfaces, depressed, obtuse 

 on margins, 1|— 2 mm. across ; testa thinly membranaceous, the 

 lower portion of hypocotyl prominent ; embryo piano-spiral, 

 viridescent. 



Nom. Jap. Shichimen-so, Mure, Sangoju-matsuna. 



Hah. Prov. Buzen : Shiohama in Sone (F. Tsudal Nov. 1908). 



This species comes near to Suazda maritima Dumort. and 

 S. salsa Pall., from which it differs by having more obtusely 

 tipped terete and entirely purple leaves, larger calyx (in fruit), 

 and membranaceous seed-coat. It is rather rare. 



Kochia Scoparia (Linn.) Schrad. Neu. Journ. III. (1809) 

 3 et 1, p. 85. 



var. littorea Makino, var. nov. 



Annual. Stem erect, or ascending, subflexuous, many- 

 branched ; branches patulous or erect-patent, more densely lanate. 

 Leaves often dense towards the top of branches. Calyx-wings 

 as in the type, herbaceous, carnosulate, squamulaeform. 



Nom. Jap. Iso-hokigi (T. Makino). 



Hab. Prov. Suruga : Shimidzu (T. Makino !) ; Prov. Idzu- 

 mi : Ishitsu (S. Matsuda !). 



This grows near sea. 



Castanea sativa Mill. Gard. Diet. VII. n. 1 (1759). 



var. pubinervis (Hassk.) Makino. 



Castanea vesca ft. pubinervis Hassk. Catal. PI. Hort. Bot. 

 Bogor. (1844) p. 73 ; Sieb. et Zuec. in Abh. Akad. Muench. IV. 

 3 (1846) p. 224. 



