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with long fibrous tails which have short rootlets. Stems herbaceous, 

 erect, slender, angulate, but terete below, branching, assuming a form of 

 narrowly pyramidal in outline ; branches ascending or erect-patent, trique- 

 trous above but quadrangular below. Leaves squamiform, deltoid-subulate, 

 membranaceous, minutely spinescent at the base, those of the lower 

 portion of the main stem elliptical-ovate and not spinescent. Oladodes 

 3-4-nate, unequal in length, erect-patent, acicular, falcute upwards, trique- 

 trous with smooth margins, sharply tapering, i-2J cm. long, f-1 mm, 

 broad. Flower unknown. 



Hob. Prov. Tosa : Sakawa, cult (T. Makinol Dec. 1892); Prov. 

 Musashi: Tokyo, Bot. Gard. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ., cult. (T. Makinol 

 Aug. 1901). 



An well-marked variety. It is to be seen only in garden, and they 

 are always sterile, as far as I know ; so we are quite ignorant about the 

 flower. , 



Teucrium veronicoides Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 826; Franch. 

 et Sav. Enurn. PI. Jap. II. p. 465. 



Teucrium nipponicum Makino in herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, 

 1891. 



Bab. Prov. Ishika.ui in Hokkaido: Sunakawa in Sorachi (K. Miyabel 

 Aug. 7, 1891); Prov. Musashi: Komaba (T. Makinol Aug. 12, 1891). 



This species has not hitherto been mentioned from the Hondo (main 

 land) of Japan. 



Salvia japonica Thunk 



«. typica Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XL 1897, p. 281. 



Forma a. bipinnata Makino 1. c. 



Salvia japonica Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 22, tab. 5 ; Pers. Syn. PI. I. 

 1805, p. 29; Spreng. Syst. Veg. I. 1825, p. 69; Willd. Sp. PI. I. p- 

 150; Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. in Abh. Akad. Muench. IV. 3 

 p. 157; Benth. in DC. Prodr. XII. p. 354; Walp. Repert. III. p. 675: 

 Miq. Pro!. Fl. Jap. p. 40 ; Hoffm. et Schult. Nom. indig. PI. Jap. p. 72, 

 et Nouv. ed. p. 53 ; Engl, et Maxim, in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. VI. p. 66 : 

 Foebes et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXVI. p. 284. 



Salvia japonica y. bipinnata Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 

 372, et II. p. 463. 



Hah. Prov. Shimotsuke : Nikko (B. Yaiahe ! herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. 

 Univ. Tokyo, July 28, 1877); Prov. Iwashiro : Yumoto in Aidzu (Z 

 Matsumura ! herb. 1. c. Aug. 1879) ; Prov. Sagami : Mt. Hakone (i?. 



