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simple, erect, straight, shorter than the ovary, obtuse at the 

 apex, stigmatose on the ventral side vertically ; ovules sub- 

 numerous (about 12), sessile, oval. 

 Nom. Jap. Botan-kimhai (nov.)- 



Hab. Prov. KITAMI in Hokkaido: Mt. Riishiri in Isl. 

 Riishiri (T. Making ! Aug. 1903). 



The flower of the present species resembles that of Trollius 

 europasus Linn, from which it differs however by having the 

 robust habit and straight styles. 



Polygonum erecto-minus Making, sp. nov. (Sect. 



Polygonum serralatum Matsum. in Sched. Herb. Sc. Coll. 

 Imp. Univ. Tokyo, pro parte, non Lagasca. 



Annual, erect, about 2-4-| decim. high. Stem laxly ramose 

 or nearly simple, slender, terete, smooth, glabrous, often more 

 or less flexuous below, strongly or slightly prominent at the 

 nodes ; internodes usually shorter than the leaves ; branches 

 erect-patent, but the basal ones sometimes spreading or divari- 

 cate. Leaves altenate, erect-patent or sometimes erect, very 

 shortly petiolate or subsessile, broadly linear or linear, acute 

 or shortly acuminate with a sharp point at the apex, acute 

 subobtuse or rounded at the base, entire and erectpatently or 

 subadpressedly (sometimes adpressed when dry) ciliated on 

 margin, green and glabrous above, glabrous but minutely and 

 thinly short-setuloso-pilosulous on the midrib and sometimes 

 purpurascent beneath, numerously punctulate with minute and 

 elevated spots of one kind scattered over the surface under 

 lens, membranaceous, 3-8-J cm. long, 2|-10 mm. broad ; midrib 

 prominent beneath ; veins delicate, inconspicuous, erect-patent ; 

 petiole 4 mm. or less long, glabrous ; ochrea tubular, hyalino- 

 membranaceous, truncate and rather long bearded at the 

 mouth, thinly adpressedU- setuloso-pilosulous on surface, many- 

 nerved, 5-12 mm. long. Peduncles terminal and axillary, lax, 

 erect, gracile, usually long, glabrous, green. Racemes spike- 

 like, erect, narrowly oblong-cylindrical, 1^-2 cm. long except 



