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decurrent to a thickish petiole at the base, rugose, flaccid, thickish, with 

 reticulated veins beneath, became smaller above and at length going to 

 lanceolate or broadly lanceolate subsessile and more or less reflexed bracts, 

 which are slightly shorter or longer than pedicels ; pedicels patulous- erect, much 

 shorter than the flower, solitary. Flowers 4-13, approximate at first and 

 then racemosely disposed, facing outwards, 4-4Jcm. long. Calyx globoso- cam - 

 panulate, 5-fid, villoso-pilose with patent white glandular hairs, longitudinally 

 ribbed, light green shaded with purpurascent colour ; lobes a little unequal, 

 deltoid, acutish-obtuse, reflexed-patent, shorter than the tube. Corolla 

 pilose ; tube tubuloso-infundibuliform, slightly depressed, more or less con- 

 tracted at the basal portion, longitudinally veined, 3-ribbed on the upper 

 side, with 2 plaits on the lower side, yellow with many purple spots and 

 spotted stride internally, but purple externally, fuscous-purple towards the 

 throat ; limb ringent, obliquely 5-partite, much shorter than the tube, light 

 purple, lobes reflexed-patent, those of the upper lip more reflexed, orbicular, 

 rounded or sometimes subretuse at the apex, ciliated. Stamens 4, didy- 

 namous, included ; filament filiform, glabrous, yellow, minutely purpureo- 

 maculate ; anther divergent, with narrowly oblong cells and white pollen. 

 Ovary conico-ovate, glabrous, green, with deep green and thickish disk at 

 the base ; style filiform, glabrous, included ; stigma divergently 2-partite 

 with short lobes, the lower lobe much broader. Capsule elliptical. 



Nom. Jap. Akaya-dziwo. 



Icon. Iwasaki's Honzo-Dzufu XVII. fol. 2 recto. 



Hob. Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, Bot. Gard. Sc. Coll. Imp.' Univ., cult. 

 (Herb.! Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, 1878, May 2, 1879 ; T. Malcino ! May 

 4 and 15, 1896, Oct, 1, 1900, May 1901). 



This species which is cultivated for medicinal purpose in Japan, was 

 introduced formerly from China ; the a. lutea is very rarely found on 

 account of its difficulty of cultivation, while the /?. purpurea is commoner. 



This species is perhaps a variety of Rehmannia glutinosa Libosch, 

 which I will call by a new name of R. glutinosa var. Maximowiczii, in- 

 cluding the two forms of a. lutea and b. purpurea. 



(To be continued.) 



