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Gerardia japonica Thunb. Fl. Jap. 1784, p. 251, et Icon. PI. Jap. 

 Decas 5, 1805, tab. X ; Pers. Syn. PI. II. p. 154 ; Willd. Sp. PL III. p. 224 ; 

 Spreng. Syst. Veg. II. p. 806 ; Benth. in DC. Prodr. X. p. 519 ; Schultes 

 Beitr. z. Nomencl. d. Flor. Jap. 1855, p. 3. 



Phteirospermum chinense Bunge ; Benth. 1. c. p. 539 ; Walp. Piepert. 

 III. p. 391 ; Maxim. Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 208 ; Kegel Tent. Fl. Ussur. p. 

 121; Miq. Pro]. Fl. Jap. p. 53; Francli. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 

 350; Franch. PL David, p. 225; Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 XXVI. p. 204; Palibin Consp. Fl. Korean in Act. Hort. Petrop. XVIII. 

 p. 168. 



Pedicularis Sieb. herb, ex Miquel. 



Nom. Jap. Ko-sliiogama, 



Bab. Prov. Shimotsuke : Nikko (Herb.! Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, 

 Sept. 26 and Oct. 4, 1879) ; Prov. Musashi : Tokyo (Z. Matsumura ! 

 herb. 1. c. Oct. 10, 1881), Dokwan-yama (Z. Matsumura ! herb. 1. c. Sept. 

 28, 1879), Nobitome (S. Okubol herb. 1. c. Sept. 28, 1882), Shibuya 

 (T. Makino ! 1900) ; Prov. Shimoosa : Konodai {T. Mahino ! Oct. 6, 1895); 

 Prov. Tosa : Tosayama-go (T. Makino ! Oct. 6, 1892). 



Eehmannia lutea Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 371; Franch. et 

 Sav. Enum PI. Jap. I. p. 328. 



a. lutea Makino in Bot, Mag., Tokyo, XII. 1898, p. 301. 



Corolla pale-yellow, tinged with light purple in the throat. 



Nom. Jap. Shiroya-dzhvo. 



Icon. Iimuma's Somoku-Dzusetsu XL fol. 64 recto ; Honzokwai-Buppin- 

 Mokuroku, Nagoya, 1835, fol. 2 verso. 



p. purpurea Makino 1. c. 



Perennial. Khizome thick, long, ramose, orange-yellow, with short 

 fibrous roots. Leaves tufted, spreading, petiolate, oblong, obtuse, cuneately 

 attenuated towards the thickish petiole, which is much shorter than the blade, 

 irregularly crenato-dentate, flaccid, thickish, rugose, pubescent-pilose, green, 

 but purpurascent beneath ; nerves prominent beneath, the midrib stout, veins 

 6 to 7 on each side, erect-patulous, veinlets reticulate. Peduncles erect, 

 lateral to the base of the abbreviated main stem, which is already dead 

 and remaining in the flowering time, a few to a stock, attaining about 

 32 cm. in height, terete, simple, villoso-pilose with patent white glandular 

 hairs, loosely leafy below, leaves oblong, green, tinged with pupurascent 

 colour beneath, glandular-pilose, dentate, obtuse at the base, cuneate and 



