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A rare species, which is allied to Euphorbia Esula Linn. 

 and E. Sieboldiana Mokk. et Dkcne. 



Ainsligea Maruoi Makinu, sp. uov. 



Perennial; rhizome short or very short, oblique, not thick, 

 rooting; roots fasciculate, stout-filiform. Stem solitary, erect, 

 short, about 3-3^ cm. long, glabrous, or lanate above, virides- 

 cent, often with the usually lanato-pilose scales at the base. 

 Leaves pseudo-verticillate at the top of the stem, few to several 

 in number, long-petiolate, erect-patent or spreading, broadly 

 ovate or subreniform-ovate, cordate and deltoidly shortly pro- 

 jecting at the base, mucronato-acute at the apex, coarsely sinu- 

 ato-lobate with widely open and obtuso-rounded bottomed 

 sinuses, thinly membranaceous, nearly glabrous and green above, 

 thinly adpressed-lanate and slightly paler beneath, 4-9 cm. long, 

 3i-9^ cm. broad ; lobes deltoid or depressed-deltoid, mucro- 

 nately acute or obtuse, mucronately repand- or sinuato- pauci- 

 dentate; veins loose, a few on each side, erect-patent; veinlets 

 often inconspicuous, delicately anastomotic ; petiole slender, 

 viridescent, thinly lanate, 3|-8A cm. long. Peduncle solitary, 

 erect, slender, green, thinly pubescent, about 2 decim. long in- 

 cluding the spike, very remotely with about 2-3 minute deltoid- 

 subulate squamiform empty bracts, scaly at the very base; spike 

 about equal to or shorter than the peduncle, erect ; rachis slen- 

 der, green, pubescent; bract minute, each subtending the head, 

 sharply deltoid-subulate. Heads small, several or subnumer- 

 ous, loosely disposed, solitarj- or rarely geminate, erect-patent. 

 Involucre oblong; involucral-scales imbricated, deltoid, green, 

 purplish towards the margin above, pubescent towards the top, 

 costate longitudinally. 



Nora. Jap. Hiroba-teishoso (nov.). 



Hab. Prov. TOTOMI, silvan shady place (S. Makuo! 

 August 1913). 



Peucedanum ubadakense Making, gp. nov. 



