252 THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. LVo! . xxrn. No. v,s. 



narrower, concolorous and green, or sometimes slightly hoary 

 beneath. 



Nom. Jap. Kusa-mao. 



Hah. Prov. Yamashiro : Takao (T. Makino \ Nov. 7, 

 1893) ; Prov. Harima : Mt. Masui (K. Ikeda ! 1902). 



Gentiana yakushimensis Makino, sp. nov. 



Perennial, caespitose, glabrous, attaining about 20 cm. in 

 height. Stem simple, foliose throughout, erect or ascending. 

 Leaves 4-verticillate, dense, linear, obtuse, smooth on the 

 entire margin, thickish, with short petioles which are connate 

 at the base, longer than the internodes, attaining 22 mm. long 

 and 4 mm. broad, the lower ones smaller and often shorter 

 than the internodes ; midrib visible but veins inconspicuous. 

 Flower solitary, terminal, sessile, erect, about 4J cm. long, 

 caaruleo-purple. Calyx about 1J cm. long ; tube obconico 



campanulate, scarioso-membranaceous ; lobes 8, shorter than 

 the tube, remote each other, erect or nearly so, linear-oblong, 

 obtuse, unequal in size, herbaceous, green ; sinuses truncate in 

 bottom. Corolla tubuloso-campanulate, 6— 8-fid, minutely 



virid-punctate in throat, oval-ovate, acute, about 7—8 mm. long ; 

 dlicas shorter than the lobes, deltoid-subulate, bifid into linear- 

 subulate lobules. Stamens 6-8, included, about 16 mm. long ; 

 filament subulate ; anther linear, 8 mm. long. Pistil slightly 

 exceeding the stamens ; ovary linear-oblong, stipitate ; style 

 short ; stigma simple, revolute. Capsule shortly stipitate, 



ncluded within the corolla, narrowly oblong, compressed. 

 Seeds minute, copious, linear-fusiform, with a long subulato- 

 filiform tail at the apex, about 3J mm. long including the tail. 



Nom. Jap. Yakushima-rindo (nov.). 



Hab. Prov. Osumi : Summit of Mt. Miyanouradake in Yaku- 

 shinia (F Kudo ! communicat. T. Vchiyama ; T. Makino ! Sept. 

 1909.). 



