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Perennial, attaining 5^ decim. or more long. Stems csespitose, often 

 dense and numerous, erect, often very slender, tetragonous, smooth, inter- 

 nodes long. Leaves 4-verticillate, erect-patent or patent or more or less 

 refiexed, linear-lanceolate, or lanceolate, or oblong-lanceolate, acute, tapering 

 below, sessile or very shortly petiolate, antrorsely piloso -ciliated, very thinly 

 pilose above, pilose on the midrib beneath, attaining 14 mm. long, 4J 

 mm. v^ide, sometimes 20 mm. long, 6 mm. wide, the basal leaves shorter 

 and ovate or elliptical. Cymes lateral and terminal, small ; peduncles 

 gracile, not long ; bracts linear or broadly linear ; bracteoles often minute. 

 Flowers minute, pale viridescent, 1 mm. or a little more across, pedicellate ; 

 pedicels gracile, filiform, glabrous, often longer than the fruit, often divari- 

 cate in fruit. Corolla patent, 4-parted, glabrous ; lobes ovate, simply acute 

 or acutish. Stamens 4, short ; filament filiform. Styles 2, connate one-half 

 below ; stigma capitate. Fruit densely squamuloso-pilose with ascending 

 subuncinate short hairs, 1 mm. long. . 



Hah. Prov. ToSA : Sakawa (Tl llakino \ 1885), Okasald in Sakawa 

 {T. Mahino\ May 18 and 21, 1889), Ogawa-mura {T. 3Iakmo\ May 18, 

 1889), Kusaka {T. 3Iakinol), Ochi {T, Maldiio\ 1892), Nanokawa (T. 

 MaJdno ! June 1885), Ishii near Kochi (T. 31akino ! May 1893) ; Prov. 

 Iyo: Hatadera in Onsen-gori {K. Ohudairal May 1894); Prov. Mikawa.: 

 Sakamoto in Hoi-gori {G, Nagicra ! May 1, 1897) ; Prov. Musashi : Hori- 

 nouchi {T, Makinol June 3, 1888), Sentagaya {T, MaUno\ May 27, 

 1899), Shibuya {T. BlaUno ! June 5, 1899) ; Loochoo : Shuri in Isl. Oki- 

 nawa (H. Kuroiwa ! 1896), Kunchan (H. Kuroiioa ! May 1897). 



A common species, widely distributed over Japan. 



Galium setuliflorum (A. Gray) Makino (sensu latiore). 



Perennial, lj-8| decim. high. Stems ca3spitose, erect or ascending, 

 slender, simple or loosely ramose, tetragonous, smooth even on the angles, 

 rarely patently pilose, pilose at the nodes, internodes slender. Leaves all 4~ 

 verticillate and the two smaller, patent or refiexed, lanceolate or angustato- 

 laneeolate, or sometimes linear-oblong, acute or acuminato-acute at the apex, 

 acute at the base, subsessile or very shortly petiolate, antrorsely piloso-ciliated, 

 subpatent-antrorsely pilose on the midrib beneath, very thinly pilose towards 

 the margin above, often subtriplinerved at the base, the largest one about 

 28 mm. long and 7 mm. wide, the basal ones ovate or orbiculato-ovate 

 and conspicuously petiolate. Cymes terminal and lateral, with gracile 

 and usually trichotomous peduncles, often forming together a loose panicle ; 



