Apb. looa.] MAKINO.— OBSERV. ON THE FLORA OF JAPAN. 67 



Makino ( = C. pallida var. platycarpa Maxim.), but the former 

 differs from the latter by not having the larger flowers and 

 muricato-hispidnlous seeds. 



Ajuga (Bugula) nipponensis Makino, sp. nov. 



Perennial, tufted, estoloniferous, cinereous in recent, 5— 

 32 cm. high ; rhizome very short, ligneous, often with the old 

 base cf the stems ; roots long. Stems not stout, few to 

 several or sometimes many (about 20), erect or ascending from 

 the rhizome or from the base of the stem of last year, terete 

 below but 4-gonous above, purplish-viridescent, villoso-pubescent 

 with patent pale pubes, simple or sometimes more or less 

 ramose with sterile branches. Leaves all cauline and not many, 

 opposite, remote, erect-patent, long and narrowly petiolate, 

 elliptical or oblong, more or less obovate, obtuse at the apex, 

 acuto-cuneately attenuated and angustately decurrent towards 

 the petiole below, irregularly coarsely mucronato-sinuate or 

 sinuato-dentate, membranaceous, piloso-pubesccnt on both sur- 

 faces, but pubes denser on the nerves beneath, ciliated, looseby 

 veined, cinereo-viridescent and often shaded with purplish be- 

 neath, attaining about 9 cm. long, 4} cm. broad, midrib and 

 veins prominent beneath, the basal ones usualh' foliaceo-squami- 

 form, membranaceous, sessile, obovate, spathulato-obovate, 

 crenato-serrate, pale or pale-rosy in colour; petiole 1^-5 cm. 

 long. Vertieillasters spicate (that portion about 3-10 cm. 

 long in flower but longer in fruit) above, but the low* r ones 

 remote and the lowest one much so, about 6— 14-flowered in 

 each vcrticillaster J raehis densely villoso-pubescent with pale 

 pubes, 1-gonous, virid-purplish ; bracts opposite, sinuato- 

 dentate, the lower ones large, foliaceons, petiolate, the upper 

 ones gradually diminished in si/.e and mostly shorter than the 

 Mowers, the superior ones elliptical, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 

 cuneate, acutish, pauci-dentate or entire. Flowers numerous, 

 dense, pale and with violceoua or lilaceous veiny lines, very 

 shortly pedicellate, about 1 1 mm. long. Calyx villoso-pubescent 

 with pale hairs, shortly campanulate, ^iridescent bul purplish 

 below, 4—o nun. long; segments deltoid-subulate, acuminate, 



