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thinly pubescent and sparingly ciliated, 2-13 ram. long. Cymes 

 panicuulate, axillary and terminal, many-ramose, glanduloso- 

 pubescent with patent several-celled simple hairs ; branches erect- 

 patent, gracile ; bracts small, spreading, lanceolate, ovato-lanceo- 

 late, or subulato-ovate, attenuato-acuminate, ciliated. Flowers 

 small, numerous, pedicellate, 7-8 mm. across ; pedicel about as 

 long as the flowers, glanduloso-pubescent. Sepals narrowty 

 lanceolate, attenuated-acuminate, glanduloso-pubescent in the 

 back with spreading several-celled simple hairs, hyaline towards 

 the margin, 1-nerved. Petals shorter than tha sepals, bifid to 

 the middle, attenuated below, 2-3-nerved ; lobes acute, falcato- 

 lanceolate, erect. Stamens 5, longer or shorter than the petals 

 but shorter than the sepals ; filament linear-subulate ; anther 

 oblong. Annulus conspicuous, thick. Ovary globose, 1-celled 

 with a central axis, 3-ovuled towards the bottom ; styles 3, 

 slightly longer than the ovary. Capsule ovoid, membranaceous, 

 composed with 6-valves, slightly shorter than the persistent 

 calyx, monospermous. Seeds large, rounded, glabrous, smooth, 

 castaneous. 



Nom. Jap. O-yamahakobe. 



Hah. Japan, mountains. 



This species comes very near to Stellaria crispata Wall. ( =5. 

 monosperma Buch.-Ham.; S. paniculata Edgew.), but my species 

 has the 2-lined-pubescent stem, acuminate sepals, 5-stamens, 

 longer styles and 1-celled ovary. 



Artemisia (Dracunculus) Fukudo Makino, sp. nov. 



? Artemisia campestris Maxim, in Mel. Biol. VIII. p. 524, 

 quoad pi. Lutschu., non Linn. 



Biennial or subperennial herb, not aromatic, glabrous, erect, 

 pyramidally paniculato-ramose, attaining about 8 decim. in 

 height. Stem stout, terete and striate; branches slender, numer- 

 ous, erect-patent, usually arcuate upwards, striato-angulate. 

 Leaves thickish ; radical ones tufted, elongato-petiolate, erect, 

 broad, 3— 4-pinnatiparted ; lacina? narrow and linear, flat, acute, 

 entire, 1—3*. mm. broad ; midrib only visible ; petiole slender, 



