80 BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. [voi. xvii, 



Hypericum (Euhypericum) obtusi folium Maldno, sp. nov. 



Hypericu7ii erectum var. ohtusifolium Blume Mii?. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 

 TL p. 25, teste Maxim.; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. XI. p. 168. 



Hypericum flaccidum Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XIII. (1899) p. 

 241 (nomea tantum). 



Perennial, flaccid, glabrous. Stems csespitose, ascending or diffuso- 

 ascending, slender, terete, smooth, ramose, the well developed one attain- 

 ing about 6i decim. in length. Leaves oblong, rounded-obtuse, usually 

 rounded, or obtuse at the base, sessile or subsessile, membranaceous, very 

 slightly glaucous beneath, minutely nigro-punctate on the margin, dispersedly 

 pellucid-punctate, attaining 3 J cm. long, 1§ cm. wide; veins loose, 3 cm 

 each side. Cymes loose, few-pluri- or sub-numerous-flowered, the branches 

 sometimes secundly flowered ; bracts leafy. Flower very shortly pedicellate, 

 about 10-13 mm. across, yellow. Sepals 5, unequal in size, the smaller 

 ones linear-lanceolate, the larger ones foliaceous and oblong to elliptico- 

 oblong and subcrispate, obtuse, green, minutely nigro-punctate on the 

 margin, 3-5-nerved. Petals, 5, patent, thin, spathula to -oblong or narrowly 

 oblong, rounded or obtuse at the apex, slightly longer than the smaller 

 ones of the sepals, about 6 mm. long. Stamens many, shorter than 

 the petals, sets not distinct ; filament filiform ; anther broadly rounded 

 Ovary ovoid, glabrous, 3- rarely 4-sulcate, 3- rarely 4-locular, 3 mm. long; 

 styles erect, narrow, equal to the ovary in length ; stigma capitellato- 

 punctiform. Capsule globoso- conical, turgid, 3-rarely 4-sulcate, usually a 

 little longer than the persistent calyx, with the persistent styles, about 

 8 mm. long, 6 mm. across, carpels thinly coriaceous. Seeds numerous, 

 jCylindrico-oblong, brown, minutely subreticulate, about | mm. long. 



Hah: Prov. Tosa : Sakawa (T. 3Iakino ! 1884, Sept. 7, 1887), Fukui 

 near Kochi {T. 3Ialdno\ 1885), Kamibun {T. Mahino\ Sept. 1892), 

 Mama {T, Mahinol Sept. 1892), Kochi (T. Makino \ Aug. 1892), Niida 

 and Kure (T. Makino ! Aug. 1, 1889); Prov. Musashi : Tokyo (2\ Makino ! 

 Aug. 23, 1888), Shimura (T. MaUm\ Sept. 1893, May 22, 1898); Prov. 

 Shimoosa ; Mama {T. Makino \ 1900); Prov. Mikawa : Kaminagara {G. 

 Nagura\ Aug. 1, 1897). 



This grows in field, and has an affinity to Hypericum Jiakonense 

 Franch. et Sav., which is found on mountains. It differs specifically from 

 H. erectum Thunb. (Tb he continued.) 



