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(the tuft attaining about 12 cm. in expansion), with fibrous roots. Stems 

 decumbent and ramose and gracile below, densely foliate, the sterile ones 

 immersed among the leaves. Leaves thickisb, herbaceo-coriaceous, narrowly 

 recurved on the margui when dried, subrecurvo-patent, ovato-Ianceolate to 

 lato-ovafce, obtuse or acutish, sessile and connate at the base, attaining 

 17 ram. long, 7 mm. wide, trinerved ; floriferous stem ascending, longer 

 than the sterile stem, loosely ramose above, angulate, the internodes often 

 longer than the leaves above. Flower very shortly pedicellate, erect, 1 

 or mostly corymbose-disposed, 2-3 cm. long. Calyx campanulate, green, 

 about 9-11 mm. long, 5-6-fid ; lobes lato-ovate to orbicular, acute, shorter 

 than the tube, erect or sub-erect-patent, about 3J mm. long. Corolla 

 thrice to twice and a half as long as the calyx, deep-violet, with green 

 spots in the throat ; tube lato-cylindrical ; limb patent, elliptical or orbiculate, 

 rounded-obtuse at the apex, 6-8 mm. long ; plaits erect, about 4 mm. long, 

 deltoid or deltoid-ovate, eroso-fimbriate or irregularly fimbriate, often bifid 

 at the apex. Stamens slightly lower than the corolla-tube ; filament 

 subulate, glabrous ; anther oblong. Pistil equal to the stamens in height ; 

 ovary oblong, compressed, abruptly reduced into the style, lato-stipitate ; the 

 stipe longer than the ovary; style short, bifid, the arms spathulate, rounded 

 at the apex, minutely papillose internally. Capsule much exserted above 

 the persistent corolla, long-stipitate, rounded, compressed. 



Hah. Prov. Kitami in Hokkaido: Mt. Kishiri in Isl. Rishiri {Tahiya 

 Kaioahami ! Aug. 1899 ; T, Maldno ! Aug. 1903). 



A charming one, larger than the type. Corolla more deeply coloured, 

 plaits fimbriate, and calyx-lobes broader. I have a specimen from Mt. 

 Tide in the province of Iwashiro, collected by K. Nemoto, Aug. 25, 1895, 

 which probably belongs to our variety, having narrowly ovate or ovato- 

 lanceolate calyx-lobes and less fimbriate plaits. 



Suseda glauca Bunge in Mel. Biol. X. p. 293, n. 40, (1879), et 

 Salsol. Herb. Petrop. in Act. Hort. Petrop. XIII. p. 21 ; Trautv. in Act. 

 Hort. Petrop. IX. p. 398 ; Herd. PL Radd. Apetal. in Act. Hort. Petrop. 

 X. p. 627 : Franch. PI. David. T. p. 251 ; Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. XXVI. p. 328 ; Makino in Bot. Mag., Takyo, XI. (1897) p. 70; Palib. 

 Consp. Fl. Kor. II. p. 33. 



Schoberia glauca Bunge Enum. PI. Chin. Bor. (1831) p. 59, n. 310. 



Chenopodina glauca Moq. in DC. Prodr. XIII. 2, p. 162 ; Maxim. 

 Prim. Fl. Amur. Suppl. Ind. Fl. Pek. p. 476, et Ind. Fl Mongol, p. 484. 



