76 BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. tVoi. xvil, 



bracts linear or linear-lanceolate ; bracteoles often minute. Flowers 

 small, pedicellate, 2-1-3 mm. across, usually purplish; pedicels di-or trichoto- 

 mously arranged, erect-patent, gracile, filiform, usually glabrous, 2-9 times 

 of the fruits in length. Corolla 4-parted, refiexed-patent ; lobes ovate 

 or elliptical-ovate, acute and with a beak at the apex (the beak obtuse at 

 the end), glabrous or setuloso-hirsute with stiff long and persistent hairs 

 externally. Stamens 4, short ; filament fihform, glabrous ; anther rounded. 

 Styles 2, connate one-half below ; stigma capitate. Fruits IJ mm. 

 long, densely squamuloso-pilose with subuncinate ascending short hairs. 

 Flowers May. 



This species grows on mountains or wooded hills. It is to be distin- 

 guished into two varieties as following, viz. 



«. setulifiorum (A. Gray) Makino. 



Galium tracJiyspermum var setulifiorum A. Gray Bot. Jap. (1859) p. 

 393 ; Miq, Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 276. 



Galium poc/onantJium Franch, et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. (1875) p. 

 213, et II. p. 393. 



Galiicm gracile Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 261, et XI. p. 802, pro parte. 



Corolla-lobes setuloso-hirsute externally. 



Hah. Prov. Iyo : Yunoyama-mura in Onsen-gori {K. Ohudaira ! May 

 1894) ; Prov. Yamato {K, Tsuzi ! 1891). 



/3. nudifiorum Makino. 



Galium gracile var. pogonantJmm Maxim, in litt. 



CoroUa-lobes quite glabrous. 



Hah. Prov. TosA : Sakawa (T. Mahino ! 1884, 1885), Okasaki in 

 Sakawa {T. Maldno ! May 18, 1889), Kosuizi {T. 3Iahino ! 1885), Nano- 

 kawa (T. Maldno \ June 1885), Near Susaki(7'. Yoshinaga \) ; Prov. Tsu- 

 SHBiA (K. Hirata ! June 12, 1902). 



Galium asprellum ]\Iichx. /5. lasioearpum Makino. 



Galium asprellum ^. fructu hispiclo Maxim. 



Galium asprellum a. typicum Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 262 ; 

 Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 215. 



Flowers viridescent, not white. Fruit uncinato-hispid. Leaves 

 attaining 31 cm. long, li cm. broad. 



Hah. Prov. Shwiotsuke : Nikko {T. 3IaUno\ July 30, 1884); Prov. 

 MusAsm: Otsuka in Tokyo {T. Mahino \ Sept. 1886), Dokwan-yama (T. 

 31ahino\ Aug. 17, 1888); Prov. Spiimoosa : Konodai {T. Makino \ May 2.5, 

 1884) ; Prov. Ugo : Kwan-onzi-mura (/. Sato ! June 1892) ; Prov. Ise : 



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