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bracts foliaceous, patent, similar to leaves in form but sessile and smaller 

 in sizO; sinuate or sometimes entire, pilose, often subtriplinerved. Flower 

 very shortly pedicellate. Calyx campaniilate, cut down to the middle into 

 5-cleft lobes, patently villose and cihated, 5-6 mm. long; lobes subulato- 

 lanceolate, acmxiinate ; the tube many-nerved. Corolla exserted, blue ; the 

 tube narrow, 6-7 mm. long, somewhat enlarged at the base ; limb labiate, 

 the lower lip patent, 5-Q mm. long, 3-parted, the lateral lobes oblong, 

 obtuse, ciliated, the midlobe broadly obovato-cuneate, emarginate with 

 rotund lobes and a slightly produced tip between the lobes ; the upper lip 

 very short, bilobed. Stamens slightly exserted, inserted on the upper 

 portion of the corolla-tube, the lower ones slightly longer ; filament 

 slightly pilose ; anther subreniform. Style slightly exserted, glabrous, with 

 a bifid stigma ; .ovary glabrous, the lobes globose. NutJets elhptical, 

 minutely reticulate -foveolate, yellowish-smoky. 



Hah. Prov. Shimoosa : Kogane-ga-hara (Herb. ! Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. 

 Tokyo, May 16, 1880); Prov. Musashi : Tokyo (Herb.! ibid; T. Maldno ! 

 May 1896), Toda-hara (i?. Yatabe and J. Matsif>7i%ura I herb. ibid. May 

 3,1880); Shimura {T, Mahinol May 22, 1898), Kanagawa {T. Maldno\ 

 April 23, 1890) ; Prov. Sagami : Hiratsuka {T, Malmio ! Aug. 4, 1895) ; 

 Prov. Shimotsuke : Nikko (T. 3IaJcino ! June and Aug, 27, 1901). 



This variety differs from the type, mainly by having the several stems 

 and dense villosity. 



Vaccinium longeracemosum Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. II, 

 (1879) p. 425. 



Vaccinium Nagurai Makino, ined. 



Shrub ; branches terete, glabrous, castaneous, innovations pilosulate. 

 Leaves deciduous, obovato-elliptical or elliptical, acute or shortly acuminate 

 with a mucronate tip, acute at base, very shortly petiolate, entire and 

 glabrous or subciliated margined, chartaceous, thinly pilose above, nervate 

 and often thinly muricato-pilose beneath, attaining 4§ cm. long, 2| cm. 

 broad. Raceme terminal on the short lateral foliate innovations, spread- 

 ing, subsecundly many-flowered, 3-5 cm. long ; rachis slender, thinly 

 pubescent ; bracts deciduous, oblong-lanceolate, mucronato-acute, sessile, 

 membranaceous, reticulately nervate. Flowers 4-4i mm : across ; pedicel 

 erect-latent or patulous, glabrous, twice as long as the calyx, 2i mm. long. 

 Calyx campanulate, glabrous ; lobes semiorbicula to-deltoid, subdenticulate or 

 moreover ciliated at the obtuse apex. Corolla lato-campanulate, twice as 



