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to the corolla lobes ; anterior 2 fertile, distant, half as long as the corolla 

 and nearly equal to or a little exceeding it in height, filament broadly filiform, 

 glabrous much shorter in long-styled-flower, anther dorsifixed, orbicular 

 with often more or less divergent cells ; posterior 2 rudimentary, short, sub- 

 eiavate, obtuse, white. Ovary 4-divided, borne on a thick orange-coloured 

 disk ; divisions erect, suborbicular, compressed, glandular on oblique top ; 

 style scarcely exserted in long-stamened-nWer, but more exserted in short- 

 stainened-flower, filiform, glabrous ; stigma 2-fid, with obtuse and subulate- 

 lanceolate lobes. Fruit 4-divided, equal to the persistent calyx-tube in 

 height ; nutlets erect, compresed, triquetrous with lateral obtuse corky 

 margins, glandular on the ventral side, glabrous on the back, rounded- 

 truncate at the top, about ]i mm long. 



Lycopus lucldus forma angustifolia ? Miq. Prol. fl. Jap. p. 37. 



Nom. Jap. Hime-shirone. 



Hab. Prov. Shimotsuke : Mt. Nikko (Herb. ! Sc. Coll Imp. Univ. 

 Tokyo, Aug 1, 1877); Prov. Iwashiro : Aidzu (Herb. 1 1. c. Aug. 1879); 

 Prov. Mutsu : Aomori (Herb. ! 1. c. July 28, 1880) ; Prov. Oshima in Hok- 

 kaido : Hakodate (Herb. ! 1. c. Aug. 10, 1878), Esashi (K. Miyabe ! and 

 E. Tolcubuchil Aug. 3, 1890); Prov. OMi : Maehara {T. Makinol Nov. 

 1894). 



I suspect that this is perhaps a variety of L. lucidus Turcz. In 

 dry ppecimens lower leaves are frequently of a rose colour. 



{To he continued.) 



