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edges, green above, paler beneath, soft, membranaceous, thinly 

 pubescent with erect arcuate and e glandular hairs on the upper 

 surface, pubescent with patent viscid-glandular hairs on the under 

 surface, attaining about 16 cm. long, 12 cm. wide ； nervation promi- 

 nent and pale-greenish beneath ； veins subpalmate at the base and 

 otherwise pinnate, loose ； veinlets reticulated ； petiole terete, grooved 

 in front, pubescent with patent viscid- glandular hairs, about 4-12 cm. 

 long. Kaceme attaining about 28 cm. long, often ramose at the 

 base ； rachis obtusely 4-angled, pubescent with patent viscid- glandu- 

 lar hairs, green. Bracts opposite, feafy and shortly petiolate be- 

 low, gradually decreasing in size and sessile upwards, pubescent 

 with eglandular hairs above and with glandular hairs on the under 

 surface, lanceolate or ovato-lanceolate or ovate, acuminate, attaining 

 about 8 cm. long in the lower ones, entire, but serrate in the basal 

 ones, green ； bracteoles small, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, a- 

 cuminate, pubescent, green. Verticillasters 3-flowered, distant, 

 bracteate and bracteolate. Flowers shortly pedicellate, about 2| cm. 

 long, yellow ； pedicels about 5 mm. long, pubescent with glandular 

 patent hairs. Calyx directed horizontally, persistent, about 14 mm. 

 long" in flower but enlarged and about 18 mm., long in fruit, bilabiate, 

 pubescent -with viscid-glandular patent colourless hairs unequal in 

 length, minutely pubescent within, green, but deeper-green in the 

 upper side, herbaceous, strongly 3-ribbed on the upper siae, 4-nerved 

 on the lower side, 2— nerved laterally, anastomosing with weak veinlets 

 between those nerves ； tube campanulate, obtuse at the base ； lip 

 shorter than the tube, open, ciliated with glandular hairs, about 5 mm. 

 long, the upper lip 3 -dentate and pubescent at the apex, lower lip 

 -equal to the upper lip in length. 2-fid, lobes subulato-deltoid, 

 acuminate. Corolla r in gent, ascending above and horizontal below 

 the mouth of the calyx ； the upper lip erect, more or less fornicate, 

 emarginate, about 12 min. long ； the lower lip deeper in colour, 

 horizontal, broader and shorter, about 1 cm. long and wide, 3 - fid, 

 the midlobe broader, depre ssed-suborbiculate and exserted, retuse, 

 the lateral lobes rounded at the apex ； tube cylindrical and pale- 

 yellow, nearly straight below, thinly pubescent above within, the 

 throat broadly campanulate, densely pubescent "with colourless hairs 

 at the bottom. Stamens 2 ； filaments pale, 7 mm. long, straight, 

 stout-filiform, glabrous ； connective arcuate, stout-filiform, pale, gla- 

 brous, about 12 mm. long ； anther linear-filiform, about mm. long, 

 pale-yellow, with white pollen ； appendage flabellato-reniform, obtuse 

 on both angles, thickish, yellow. Style filiform, curved forwards, much 

 exserted above the upper lip, white, glabrous, bifid at the apex, the 

 lower branch much shorter. Ovary-lobes 4, equal-sized, erect, el- 

 lipsoid, obtuse, smooth, glabrous, about 1 き mm. long ； disk pale-yel- 

 lowish, thick, glabrous, the inferior side swollen. Nutlets included 

 within the persistent calyx, erect, ellipsoid, slightly compressed, 

 obtuse at the apex and the side-edges, glabrous, brownish-dark, 

 about 4-5 mm. long. Flowers August- September. 



Nom. Jap. Shin ano- ahigiri (nov.), Maruba-akigiri (nov.). 



