ay, 19H.J T. MAKINO.— OBSERVATIONS OX THE FLORA OFJAFAX. 1 57 



laterally, glabrous internally and externally, bilabiate above 

 with erect lobes, about 11-1-4 mm. long; the upper lip emar- 

 ginate ; lobes subsquare, rounded-truncate, folded, not ciliated, 

 finely nerved, 4-5 mm. long; the -lower lip shorter than the 

 upper lip, equally 3-lobate, broad, retuso-truncate, finely nerved, 

 more or less crispate towards the margin, about 2|-3 mm. 

 long ; lateral lobes somewhat oblique in form ; sinuses closed 

 or subclosed. Stamens didynaraous, inserted at the throat, 

 hardly exserted beyond the upper lip, the upper 2 slightly 

 shorter, somewhat shorter than the upper Hp ; filament fili- 

 form, glabrous, about 4-5 mm. long in those of the upper 

 stamens, but 7-8 mm. long in those of the lower stamens ; 

 anthers close, equal, elliptical, obtuse and villose with white 

 hairs at the apex, deeply bifid with long and ver^- sharplv 

 tapering points (which are solid) and villose with white hairs 

 dorsally, dehiscing longitudinally, introrse, dorsifixed, horizon- 

 tal, 2i-2imm. long; anther-cells parallel, narrowly oblong. 

 Disk squamiform, hypogynous and anterior, small, thick, 

 ovoid-ellipsoid, flat ventrally and rounded dorsally, 1| ram. 

 long. Ovary oval-globose, \ery shortly attenuated at the 

 base, 3 mm. long, 2J mm. across, glabrous, smooth, shallow- 

 ly one-grooved on each lateral side, 2-celled ; style slightly 

 exserted, filiform, glabrous, about 13 mm. long ; stigma 

 capitate, scarcely bilobed. 



Nom. Jap. Gendzi-utsubo (J. Matsumura). 



Hab. Prov. IWASHIRO (Gendzi Nakahara! May 3, 1904). 



A rare species ; it is distinguished easily from Lathrtea 

 japonica Miq. by the very thick large scales of the rhizome. 



Actinostemma lobatum Maxim, in Fraxch. et Sav. 

 Enum. PI. Jap. I. (1875), p. 175. 



var. semilobatum Making, van nov. 



Leaves : base 2-lobed on one side, and simply auriculate 

 or sometimes hardly 2-lobed on the another side, sometimes 

 mixed with the quite obscurely lobed or lobe-less ones 

 { = 'racemosum' -iorm) or completely lobed ones (= typical form 

 = 'lobatum' -{orm). 



