110 BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. (Vol. xvii, 



Galium dahuricum Tnrcz.; Ledek Fl. Eo.ss. II. p. 409 ; Walp. Eep. 

 YI. p. 17. 



Galium davuricum a. fructu glabro Maxim. Prim. FL Amur. p. 140 ; 

 Eegpl Tent. FL Ussnr. p. 81 ; Herd. PL Kadd. III. 1, p. 26, tab. III. 

 fig. 4, c. 



Galium a^'prellu'm /3. davuricum Maxim, in MeL BioL IX, p, 262 ; 

 Korsh. in Act. Hort. Petrop. XII. p. 347. 



Nom Jap. Hana-mugura. 



Add. Hah. Prov. Kodzuke : Near Ikaho (Herb. ! Sc Coll. Imp. Uinv. 

 Tokyo) ; Prov. Nemuro in Hokkaido : Shibetsu {K. Miyahe ! herb. ibid. 

 July 12, 1884, sub nom. Galium triflorum). 



Galium asprellum /?. lasioca,rpum Makino, supra p. 76. = Galium 

 pseudo-aspreilum Makino, sp. nov. 



? Galium asprellum a. typicwn Maxim, in Mel. BioL IX. p. 262 ; 

 Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 215 ; Franch. PL David. I. p. 156 ; 

 Korsb. in Act. Hort. Petrop. XIL p. 347. 



? Galium asprellum Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 

 p. 393. 



? Galium davuricum /9. fructu liispido Maxim. Prim. FL Amur. p. 

 140 ; Eegel Tent. Fl. Ussur. p. 82 ; Er. Schm. Eeis. im Amur. u. Ins. 

 Sachal. p. 48. 



Perennial, attaining about 2A m. in length ; roots dense. Stem weak, 

 slender, usually leaning on bushes, branched, retrorsely aculeato-scabrous on 

 the angles. Leaves 6-verticillate, but those of the branches often 4 or 5, 

 patent, linear-lanceolate to linear-oblong, or augustato-oblong, cuspidato- acute 

 to cuspidato-rounded-obtuse at the apex, acutely attenuated below, very 

 shortly petiolate or subsessile, retrorsely acuieato-muricate on the margin 

 and midrib beneath, antrorsely muricato-hispid above and on the midrib 

 above, attaining 36 mm. long, 12 mm. broad ; lateral veins loose. . Peduncles 

 axillary and terminal, numerous, 2-3 times tri-dichotomous, glabrous or 

 retrorsely subaculeato-scabrous below ; bracts or bracteoles opposite, linear or 

 lato-linear, acuminate, usually shorter than the peduncles or pedicels ; 

 bracteoles often minute ; pedicels capillary, longer than the flower, attaining 

 about 12 mm. long ; the peduncles and pedicels soon divaricate. Flowers 

 small, loose, greenish, 1|~3 mn]. across. Corolla 4-parted ; lobes deltoid, 

 minutely beaked at the apex. Stamens short. Style erect, bifid, about 

 Imra. long ; stigma capitate. Ovary uncinatQ-hispid. Fruit about 1| mm. 



