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Rubiaceae. 



* Asperula odorata, L. *;v ■*?*■$•# Of^f?- W Galium gfacile, Bge. 

 3M^ 7 (IMS) G. Kamtschaticum, Stell. # * * 3 * * a *• 7 (g&@) G. 

 boreale, X. var japOniciim, Jfa. ^^^tr(l^l) G. triflornm, Michx. * V 

 **•?(&!*) G. paradoxum, j!fa<r. 5t^A^5(f^) Mitchella undulata, 

 S. et Z. ?py 9 PV 9 s ($-t) Rubia chiiiensis, ite^/. et Mooch. ***** 



W (f3j±) 



Caprifoliacea. 



Abelia spathulata, fi^wft. et Zucc. V9*** V9¥ ($&%) Diervilla grandi- 

 flora, Slcb. et Zucc. * * * V » * dcB) D. japonica, DC. * - * * ¥ (*I8) 

 Lonicera Tschonoskii, ilfar. #* t ** va?? (W££) Viburnum dilatatum, 

 2%««& *•-*;* * (M<li) Y. furcatum, ££. Ay;M (-fcj§[) V. tomentosum, 

 ■ Thunb. t/f^3 (ffi_L) V. urceolatum, ,S'. et Z «.+"■* y*ri< (fiLL) V. 

 Wrightii, M?. st^jr^s (rffl>. 



(7b ^e cnnff)V'('(l.) 



Plantae Japonenses novae vel minus cognitse. 



(Continued from p. 112.) 



By 



T. Makino, 



Assistant of Botany in the Science College, 

 Imperial University Tokyo. 



Elatine (Crypta) orientalis Makino Contrib. Stud. Fl. Jap. in Bot. 

 Magaz., Tokyo, XII. 1898, p. 196. 



Small dwarf glabrous flaccid annual. Stem creeping, radicant with 

 white delicate slender roots, usually alternately ramose ; branches ascending, 

 terete, smooth, leafy, dense and short in terrestrial ones, but loose and 

 long with longer internodes in submersed ones. Leaves opposite, spread- 

 ing, smooth, ovate-oblong and 2J-8 mm long, 1-3 mm broad in terrestrial 

 ones, but larger (the largest one about 17 mm long, 3| mm broad) and 

 oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate in submersed ones, obtusely and acutely de- 

 current to a short petiole at the base, obtuse or retuse or subemarginate at 

 the apex, obscurely and remotely crenato-repand on the margin, thinner and 



