112 BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. [Voi. xvii, 



Hah. Prov. Musashi : Shinagawa (T. Mahino\ June 25, 1886), 

 Dokwan-yama {T. Mahino ! Aug. 17, 1888, June 1896), Komaba {T. 

 31ahino ! Aug. 12, 1891), Near Akabane {T. Maldm ! Sept. 1894). 



Allied to Galium 'pseudo-asprdhim Makino, but the stem is shorter 

 and glabrous, the leaves are antrorsely muricato-hispid and usually fewer in 

 number in whorls, and the fruit is quite glabrou?5. This is not uncommon 

 in wooded hills near Tokyo. 



Qalimn Aparine Linn. form% leiocarpum Makino, supra p. 77. = 

 Galium Aparine Linn. var. spurium Koch Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. 

 ed. 3, p. 283 ; Ledeb. Fl. Boss. IL p. 420. 



Galium spurium Linn. Cod. n. 865 ; DC. Prodr. IV. p. 608 ; Ledeb. 

 Fl. Alt. I. p. 134. 



Galium hispidum Eoth. 



Galium agreste /9. leiospermum Wallr. 



Gymnadenia Keiskei Maxim, var. Kinoshitai Makino, var. nov. 



Perennial, attaining about 10 cm. high. Tuber solitary, perpendicular, 

 oblong-cyhndrical, thick, about 13-14 mm. long, 3-4 nun. across; roots 

 few, short ; turio lateral, sessile. Stem slender, erect, terete, glabrous, 

 quite green, monophylloiis below and.few-vaginate at the base. Leaves 

 erect-patent, arcuate dorsally, broadly linear, acutish, concave above, cylindrico- 

 vaginate at the base, entire, quite green, somewhat thickish, 3-nerved, 4|- 

 51 cm. long, 5-71 Yum. broad. Raceme short, secundly 1-3-flowered ; 

 rachis short, attaining about 7 mm. long, green ; bracts shorter than the 

 ovary, subulate, acuminate, 21-9 mm. long. Flowers 5-7 mm. across, 

 white and shaded with very light violet, inodorous. Outer perianth 

 erect-patent, concave, 3-nerved ; the upper one elliptical-ovate, rounded- 

 obtuse, about 3 mm, or a little more long ; the lateral ones obliquely ovate, 

 obtuse, slightly longer than the upper. Inner perianth connivent, scarcely 

 shorter than or nearly, equal to the outer-upper one in length, concave, 

 ovato-oval, somewhat oblicjue, obtuse, 2-nerved, deeper in colour. Lptbellum 

 8-10 mm. long, 8-9 mm. wide, sessile, 3-parted, broadly cuneate at the 

 base, ' with two short purple lines at the base above ; the lateral lobes 

 erect-patent, ligulato-^oblong, obtuse ; the midlobe a little longer than the 

 lateral ones, ligulate, trnncato-rounded and slightly bifid at the end. 

 Calcar small, about 2 mm. long, horizontal, clavato-oblong, rounded at the 



