12 BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. [Yoi. xvir. 



Gleditschia horrida (Thunb.) Makino, non Willd. 



Fagara liorrida Thunb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. II. (1894) p. 329 ; 

 Willd. Sp. PL I. (1797) p. 667 ; Pers. Syn. PI. I. (1805) p. 144 ; Koem. 

 et Schnlt. Syst. Yeg. III. (1818) p. 297, Mant. (1827) p. 225 ; Sieb. et 

 Zucc. in Abhandl. Akad. Muench. lY. 2, (1846) p. 121. 



Zanthoxylum liorridum DC. Prodr. I. (1824) p. 728. 

 . GleditscMa japonica Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bot. III. (1867) p. 

 54, et Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 242 ; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. (1875) 

 p. 114, et II. (1879) p. 327 ; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. XII. p. 452 (1886) ; 

 H. de Boiss. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. YI. (1898) p. 679. 



Ccesalpiniodes Japonicum 0. Kuntze Ke^. Gen. PI. I. (1891) p. 167. 



Fagara foliolis incequilateris integris Thunb. Fl. Jap. (1784) PL 

 Obsc. p. 350, n. 3. 



!N'om. Jap. SaihacM. 



Hah. Japan, planted and subspontaneous. 



Alsine Jooi Makino, sp. nov. 



Small perennial, compactly tufted ; roots fibrous. Stems gracile, 

 many-branched, densely covered with died old leaves, but provided with 

 living leaves towards the top of the ascending branches. Leaves dense, 

 subrigidly herbaceous, opposite with the connate bases, spreading, often 

 recurved, subulato-linear, acute, thick but thiner at the base, glabrous but 

 setoso-ciliated, hyaline-margined often excepting the apex, plane or often 

 somewhat concave above, convex beneath, 3-nerved but invisible superficially, 

 6-12 mm. long, l-2imm. wide. Flower erect, campanulate, rounded- 

 obtuse at the base, about 8mm. long, shortly pedicellate, 2-bracteate ; 

 pedicel about 4^-5 mm. long, glauduloso-pubescent ; bracts opposite, situated 

 above the middle of the pedicel, foliaceous, ascending, oblong-lanceolate, 

 concave, other characters as in the leaves. Calyx deeply 5-parted ; lobes 

 oblong or ovato-lanceolate, obtuse or acutish at the apex, entire, thickish 

 and green, but hyaline on the margin, ciliated below, glanduloso-pubesceat 

 below externally, glabrous internally, with 3 main nerves accompanied by 

 few and very loose veinlets, 7-8 mm. long, 2j-3Jmm. wide. Corolla 

 white, membranaceous, equal to or hardly longer than the calyx, 5-petaled ; 

 petals erect, oblong, rounded at the apex, acute and very shortly 

 unguiculate, entire, with delicate and rather loose veins, about 7mm. long, 

 3 mm. wide. Stamens 10, subhypogynous, shorter than the corolla, op- 

 positipetalous ones very slightly shorter than those of oppositisepalous ones 



