,903.] OBSERVATIONS ON THE FLORA OF JAPAN. HI 



long, nncinato-liispid (hook curved upwards), the mericarn elliptical-oblong. 

 Fl. July-September. 



Nora. Jap. Oba-no~yaemucjiira. 



Hah. Prov. Musaspii : Mt. Yokami {T. 3Ialdno\ July IC, 1888), 

 Asnkayaraa (ii. Yatahe and J. 3IatsumuTa ! herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. 

 Tokyo, May 4, 1879), Tokyo {R. Yatahe and J. Matsu')nura\ herb. ibid. 

 July 13, 1879), Otsuka in Tokyo {T. Mahino ! Sept. 1886), Dokwan-yama 

 {T. 31ahmo\ Aug. 17, 1888): Prov. Shimoosa : Konodai {T. Mahino \ May 

 25, 1884) Prov. Shimotsuke : Nikko. (T. Mahino ! July 30, 1884) ; Prov. 

 SniNANO : Mt. Usuhi-toge (i?. Yatahe and J. 3Iatsumura ! herb. ibid. July. 

 19, 1880) ; Prov. Mutsu : Kanegasawa (Herb. ! ibid. Aug. 16, 1884) ; 

 Prov. Ugo : Kwan-onzi-mura (7. Sato ! June 1892) ; Prov. Tosa : lilt. 

 Yokogura (T. Mahino I Aug. 28, 1887), Mt. Tebako (T. 3Iahinol Aug. 

 1885) ; Prov. Ise : Yachi-mura (Z, TJraemura ! Aug. 24, 1894) ; Prov. 

 Chikuzen: Kubara-mura in Kasuya-gori (TT. Nagano \ herb. ibid. Oct. 25, 

 1891); Prov. Ishikart in Hokkaido: Kam.ikawa {K, Idiyabel herb. ibid. 

 Aug. 10, 1891). 



Grows on mountains or hills. It apparently differs from Galium 

 asprellum Michx., by the more diffuse and longer stem, the filiform 

 peduncles, the looser inflorescence, the greenish flower, the uncinato-hispid 

 fruit, the bifid style, and the opposite bracts. It resembles some form of 

 Galium trijlmnim Michx.; its flower is perfectly similar to that of the latter, 

 but the uncinate hairs on the fruit, are characteristic. 



Galium Niewerthi Franch. et Sav. Eoum. PI. Jap. 11. (1879) p. 

 393 ; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. XI. p. 802. 



Perennial, attaining about 8decim. long. Stem weak, slender, glabrous, 

 slightly branching at the base, often branched above. Leaveso 5-4- or 6- 

 verticillata, patent or erect-patent, elliptico-oblong to narrow-oblong, abruptly 

 cuspidate or short-acuminate, acute at the base, subsessile, antrorsely sparsely 

 muricato -hispid and hispid-ciliated, 1-nerved, attaining 26 mm. long, 9 mm. 

 wide. Peduncles not long, terminal and lateral and forming together a loose 

 terminal panicle, filiform, di-trichotomous ; pedicels capillary, longer than the 

 fruit ; bracts acuminato-linear ; bracteoles minute and setaceous. Flower 

 small, greenish, 2mm. across. Corolla patent, 4-parted; lobes elliptical- 

 ovate, beaked at the apex. Stamens short. Style shorter than the corolla, 

 connate at the base. Fruit glabrous, 2imm. long, the raericarp oblong. 



Nom. Jap. Yahu-mugura. 



