Some Points in the Morphology of the Stipules in the 
Stellatae, with special reference to Galium. 1 
(Additional Note.) 
BY 
H. TAKEDA, D.I.C. 
With seven Figures in the Text. 
T HE writer, after his return to Japan, has had an opportunity of 
examining specimens of Stellatae preserved in the Herbarium of the 
College of Science, Tokyo Imperial University, and also in his own 
herbarium. He has been so fortunate as to find a few more examples 
of double stipules which are worth recording. 
Galium kanitschaticum , Stell., is a strictly £ four-leaved * species. In 
a specimen of its typical form (a hirsutum , Takeda), 2 collected by K. Endo 
in the Island of Shimushu, the most northerly of the Kuriles, the writer has 
found, at the uppermost node on the stem, one of the leaf-like stipules pro- 
vided with two midribs, while the lamina is distinctly two-lobed. One 
of the lobes has only one of the lateral veins, while the other possesses both 
developed, as is usually the case in a stipule (Fig. 38). 
In a specimen of a variety of the same species ( G . kanitschaticum , 
Stell., /3 oreganum , Piper), 3 collected by the writer on Mount Shirane, 
Nikko, in July, 1905, a double stipule of a similar appearance has been 
observed (Fig. 29). In the two cases just mentioned, one of the two lobes 
of the stipule is larger than the other, and possesses both of the lateral veins 
belonging to this particular lobe developed. In the smaller lobe, on the 
other hand, the lateral vein that is situated on the outer margin of the 
double stipule is properly developed, while the other is not produced. 
In another specimen of the same series there is a double stipule in which 
both of the lobes are practically equal in size. In this case there is no 
lateral vein in the middle region of the stipule. These two cases of double 
stipules have also been found at the uppermost node on the stem. 
1 This communication is an addendum to the author’s paper which appeared under the same 
title in Ann. of Bot., vol. xxx, p. 197. 
2 In Tokyo Bot. Mag. xxiv, p. 65 (1910). 
[Annals of Botany, Vol. XXX. No. CXX. October, 1916.] 
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3 Cf. ibid., p. 66. 
