60 UKTICACEJ-:. 



apice obtusis margiue apiceque setulosis intus glabris extus dorso versus apicem 

 plus minus setulosis deorsum glabris interdum valde angustatis lincari-filiformi- 

 bus. Capitula um'scxualia ; receptaculum subplanum glabrum ; floras pedicellati, 

 pedicellis glabris |- mm. longis |- mm. crassis crassiusculis. Fl. ^ minutissimi 

 -J mm. in diametro : segmenta 3 triangularia vel linearia circ. mm. longa 

 versus apicem rubro-puiictata ; staminodia 3 segmentis perianthii opposite, 

 TJ-J mm. longa | -g- mm. lata linearia vermiformia Jl forme re^urva infra 

 achrenium insita. Achsenium ovoideo-ellipsoideum f mm. lougum | mm. latuni 

 apice obtusum ad summum stigmate penicillato miiiuto coronatum basi 

 acutum stipite minute % mm. lougo obconico stipitatuni sublteve vel minute 

 tubcrculatum haud cchinatuni haud muricatum. Semina ovoideo-ellipsoidea ; 

 testa membranacea ; albumen nullum ; embryo amplus haud vel vix compla- 

 natus elliptico-obovoideus ; radicula supra coniformi basi gradatim ad cotyledones 

 abeuns eotyledoues in longitudine -4 plo tequans ; cotyledones crassse oblongse. 



HAB. Mt. Arisan, leg. B. HAYATA, Jan. 1912. From the position of the 

 seed and embryo, it is justly considered that the ovules are erect and ortho- 

 tropous. Near Elatostema sessile, but differs from it by the smaller leaves. 



Elatostema minutum HAYATA (Fig. 7) Fl. Mont. Forums, p. 198 t. 36. 

 Descriptio aucta : Fl. J : cymosi, cyuiis axillaribus solitariis glabris eapituli- 

 formibus breve pcdunculatis, pedunculis 1 mm. lougis basi minute bracteatis ; 

 < -vim's 6-floratis rarius 10-floratis bracteis et bracteolis involucratis, bracteis 

 ordinis I. late rotundatis 2 mm. longis totiusque latis apice rotundatis infra 

 apicem dorso brevissime cornuto-apiculatis margine minute ciliolatis utraque 

 pagiue glabris valde concavis ; bracteis ordiuis II. obloiigo-naviculiformibus 

 2 mm. longis explicato totiusque latis 

 apice 2-lobatis vel rotundatis dorso apice 

 hirsutis margine apice ciliolatis deorsum 

 haud ciliolatis intus glaberrimis, bracteis 



ordinis III. (vel bracteolis) obovato-cuneatis 



2 mm. longis 1 mm. latis apice rotundatis f[ 



latissiniis leviter 2-lobatis apice maro-ine 



Fig. 7, Elatostema minutum HAYATA ; 



ciliolatis creteruui haud ciliolatis ; podicellis a diagram of a male inflorescence. 

 florum 1|- mm. longis glabris haud braeteatis. Perianthii lobi 5, lobis obovato- 



