54 BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. LVoi. xvii, 



glabrous ; anther narrowly oblong, yellowish. Ovary ovato-oblong, glabrous, 

 8mm. long including the very short style bearing a bilobed stigma. 

 Capsule large, longer than the persistent corolla, narrowly ovoid, acute, 

 crowned with a bifid stigma. Seeds numerous, minute, rounded to elliptical, 

 compressed, muricate. 



Hah. LoocHOO : Yontanzan in Isl. Okinawa {H. Kuraiica ! Dec. 1895). 



The leaves are similar to those of Swertia TasJiiroi (M'a.xim.) Makino, 

 but the flowers are very different. This is also found in Amami-Oshima. 



Swertia (Ophelia) tosaensis Makino. 



Siuertia chinensis var. tosaensis Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, VI. 

 (1892) p. 53. 



Biennial, glabrous, 8-52 cm, high. Boots divaricate. Stem erect, 

 slender, tetragonous, usually loosely or rarely densely branched ; branches 

 slender, ascendingly erect. Leaves spreading, subspathulate or linear- 

 oblong, obtuse or acute, attenuated below into a rather long or short 

 petiole, the superior ones gradually smaller and sessile and lanceolate or 

 linear-lanceolate and passing into lato-linear bracts above, entire, thin, 

 triplinerved, the lower largest one attaining GJ cm. long and 1| cm. wide. 

 Cyme paniculate ; bracteoles linear, often shorter than the pedicel. Flowers 

 1 J-l| cm. across, whitish, erect, pedicellate. Calyx 5-divided, glabrous, 

 green; lobes lanceolate, acute, 4-8 mm. long, 3 or sub-5-nerved, with 

 anastomosing venules. Corolla patent, longer than the calyx, deeply 

 5-parted, 6-10 mm. long ; lobes narrowly oblong, obtuse or acutish, entire, 

 delicately 5-uerved ; glands 2 to each lobe and situated below, longi- 

 tudinally oblong or narrowly oblong, fimbriate all round with numerous 

 filiform weak hairs which are mach shorter than the lobeo. Stamens 5, 

 inserted at the top of the short corolla-tube, shorter than the corolla-lobes ; 

 filamxent subulate, filiform ; anther oblong-elliptical. Ovary erect, ovato- 

 oblong, compressed, glabrous, 5-6 mm. long; stigma sessile, bifid. Capsule 

 equal to the corolla in length, oblong, glabrous, crowned with a bifid 

 stigma. Seeds numerous, small, rounded to elliptical, angulate ; testa 

 close, minutely reticulate. 



Nom. Jap. Inu-semlmri. 



Hah. Prov. TosA : Hirakushi-mura {T. 3Iahino \ Oct. 5, 1885), 

 Tachibanagawa-mura {T. 31aldno\ Oct. 21, 1885), Yotsudzi {T. j\la]dno\ 

 Oct. 20, 1885), Kinzyono [T. Mahino\ Oct. 21, 1885), Wada near Sukumo 

 T. 3IaJcino\ Nov. 4, 1885), Hirata (T. Mahino\ Nov, 4, 1885); Prov. 



