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tomentella Making. 



Peduncle : the fleshy portion pulvereous, and the orginary 

 portion pulvereo-puberulent. Fruit pubescent-tomentose with 

 fulvous hairs ; endocarp thinner ; calyx-tube densely pulvereo- 

 puberulent ; pedicel pulvereo-tomentose. Seed oval, svibful- 

 vous-black. 



Nom. Jap. Kempo-nashi. 



Hab. ProY. TOSA (H. Yamamoto ! ; T. Making ! ). 

 This variety is common in the western Japan. 



- Lathraea Nakaharai Making, sp. nov. 



A leafless fleshy perennial ; rhizome ramose, densely clothed 

 with many thick broad scales and 3 cm. or less across. 

 Scape simple, erect, thick, terete, glabrous, sparsely scattered 



long 



about 12 cm. long, 



ly densely many-flowered ; rachis thick, glabrous ; bracts 

 oblong, narrowly oblong, or oblanceolate, obtuse, entire 



membranaceou 



the pedicels 



nerves usually 3, with loose veinlets. Flowers shortly pedi- 

 cellate, erect-patent or patent, pale or slightly rosy, about 

 l|cm. long; pedicel erect, gracile, shorter than the bracts, 

 nearly glabrous (very sparingly pilose), about 3-4 mm. long. 

 Calyx tubuloso-campanulated, 4-fid, membranaceous, dispers- 

 edly patently piloso-pubescent externally, glabrous internally 

 but slightly pnberulent towards the margin of the lobes, 

 pale, and very slightly rosy above and below, about 7-9 

 mm. long ; tube usually slightly compressed laterally ; lobes 

 erect or slightly erect-patent, about | as long as the tube, 

 acutish-obtuse at the apex, entire, about 3-nerved ; the 

 upper 2 lobes somewhat longer and ovato-deltoid ; the lower 

 2 lobes smaller and scarcely shorter, oblong-ovate; sinuses 

 acuminate, purple at the bottom ; main veins about 10, with 

 more or less anastomotic loose veinlets between veins. Co- 

 rolla exserted, narrow, slightly arcuate downwards, enlarged 

 above, somewhat contracted above the base, compressed 



