57 



There are two species of the genus in Japan: one is D. verticillata 

 Benth. { — D. japonic a Miq. Pro!. h\ Japon. p. 34; Franch. et Savat. 

 Enum. pi. Jap. I. p. 363) and the Other the present one. Midm-toranoo 

 in Jinuma's Somoku-Dzusetsu II. fol. 51 which is not evidently D. japonica 

 Miq., corresponds to my species. It is found in marshy places in the 

 middle and northern parts of this country, while D. verticillata Benth. is 

 principally growing in rice-fields in the southern part, and the vulgar name 

 of the latter species is Midzu-nekonoo named before by myself. 



I have the great pleasure of naming this nice species in honour of 

 Eigakuhakushi Kyokichi Yatabe, the author of Iconographia floras Japoniae, 

 and the director of High Normal School. 



Chelonopsis kmgipes Makino. 



Perennial herb. Stems pretty tali, ascending or erect-standing from 

 woody stock, usually simple, obtusely tetmgonous, leafy, pubescent or pilose- 

 pubescent above but nearly glabrate below, purplish. Leaves opposite, 

 short-petioled, oblong-lanceolate, about 8-15 cm long, 2-4J cm broad, 

 narrowly acuminate with obtuse tip, somewhat narrowed towards the base 

 and cordate-auriculate, dentate-serrate with numerous teeth which are 

 callose-mucronate, deltoid, and sub-regular, rather thin, very sparingly 

 pubescent above, much pubescent along the nerves on both surfaces, green 

 above and paler beneath ; midrib slender and prominent underneath ; 

 lateral veins several on each side of the midrib, arcuate running upwards, 

 with reticulated veiniets between themselves. Cymes opposite, axillary, 

 2-5-flowered ; common peduncle long and slender, 2j~ 4 cm long, usually 

 strict, erect-patent, pubescent with spreading white hairs ; secondary 

 peduncles, and tertiary if any, short and f-1 cm long, pubescent ; bracts 

 few, situated on upper portions of the secondary or tertiary peduncles, 

 linear, callose-obtuse, attenuated below, f-lj cm long, pubescent and 

 ciliated. Flowers very shortly pedicellate. Calyx obovoid-campanulate, 

 pubescent and ciliated, about 1 cm long when in flower, but ellipsoidally 

 inflated campanulate, nervoso-reticulate, sub-glabrate, and 1-J-1J cm long- 

 when in fruit, slightly compressed, bilabiate at the top, with a broad throat, 

 the upper lip very slightly longer than the lower, shortly 3-fid and the 

 lower 2-fid with deltoid and acutish teeth, 10-nerved with fine transverse 

 reticulated veiniets, persistent. Corolla large, much exserted, turned out- 

 wards, about 4 cm long, thinly pubescent above, purple ; tube tubulous- 

 campanulate, slightly compressed, straight, narrowed below ; limb bilabiate 



