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numerous branches, glabrous, slightly pilose on the nodes, basal portion 

 about 3|mm in the diameter in thickest one, emitting epigseous slender 

 stolons from the base. Leaves opposite, spreading, small, oblong-ovate, or 

 oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, gradually narrowed below into a petiole, 1J — 4jcm 

 long including the petiole, J-l|cm wide, sinuato-dentate with erect-patent 

 obtuse teeth, but the teeth smaller, shorter and often duplicate in superior 

 ones, thin, glabrous except midrib beneath, obscurely scabrous-ciliated on 

 the margin, densely and obscurely punctate underneath ; midrib prominent 

 beneath, very thinly pilose ; veins pinnate, erect-patent, arcuate, reaching 

 to the margin ; veinlets loose and inconspicuous. Verticillaster small, sessile 

 or subsessile ; bracts narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed towards the 

 base into a petiole ; bracteoles very minute, subulate, more or less narrowed 

 below, acuminate, usually shorter than the calyx. Flowers minute, sessile, 

 3-6 in number in each verticillaster. Calyx campanulate, 5-cleft with 

 obtuse sinuses, l|mm long, hispidulous, persistent ; tube broad and short, 

 slightly nervate outside, covered with very minute glands, membranaceous 

 towards the base; lobes nearly erect, but erect-patent in fruit, deltoid- 

 ovate, rather suddenly acuminate with a subspinose tip, sub-rigid, sub T 

 carinate in the dorsal, scabrous on the margin, 3-nerved except a posterior 

 lobe which is smaller shorter and 1-nerved. Corolla minute, slightly 



exserted, white with light purple spots ; tube short, campanulate, narrowed 

 below, villoso-hirsute in throat inside, thinly glandular outside ; lobes 4 

 with acute sinuses, shorter than the tube, spreading or more often re- 

 curved, oval-ovate, rounded-obtuse or more or less retuse, entire, the lower 

 one larger. Stamens 2, inserted to the ultra-medium of the corolla-tube, 

 lower than the corolla-lobes ; filament subulate-filiform ; anther broad, 

 introrse, dorsifixed, auricled at the base; posterior 2 rudimentary, minute, 

 linear. Style stout- filiform, equal to the corolla in height, glabrous, with 

 narrowly bifid stigma, thickish at the base. Ovary 4-divided, situated 

 on the yellow-coloured disk, erect, compressed, rounded, glandular on the 

 inner face of the top. Nutlets 4, erect, closely placed, a little exserted on 

 the calyx-tube, l§mm long, slightly compressed with corky margins, sub- 

 triquetrous, narrowly obovate-square, rounded-truncate, glandular internally 

 towards the top, smooth and flat in dorsal, light umber in colour. 



Norn. Jap. Sarudahiko. 



Hah. Prov. Tosa: Sakawa ('/'. Makino\ 1884), Godaisan-mura 

 (T. Makino\ Sept. 2!), 1892), Tokano (K. Watanabel her}). Sc. Coll. 

 Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Oct. 10, 1891); Prov. Shimoosa : Mama (Herb.! Sc. 

 Coll; Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Sept. 23, 1885); Prov, Musasht : Sendyii in 



