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ffi X " Si ;'r t i* * $i] E i- ^ ^ 3 v -' $ ^ ^ h w * -< ^ ,ft 

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g5 CI.XII jjj JK. 1-3 PI- 1: l^ * fi ^, Hah-nvc-ni.i 1 larvcyana J. 



Microcladia deiitata Okam. sp. nov. 



Norn, Jap, : A'<w//Y-.v/,7. 

 PL. CLXII, Fig. 4-9. 



Fronds narrow-linear, compressed, membranous, 

 disticho-alternately pinnate with widely parted, slightly flexu- 

 ose : branches standing on round axils, arranged in pani- 

 culate-cymose manner, and loaded with alternate sharpish 

 ramuli which have ramelli or lacinulae appearing like 

 minute teeth. Tetraspores in double rows in ramuli. 



Hub.: Shimabara (Prov. Hizen), Kagoshima I Prov. 



Satsuma). 



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Dcscrifi.: Fromh narro\\ -linear, ancipito-compressed, 

 membranous, alternately pinnate, erect or ascending from 

 decumbent lower portions, where the plant emits inono- 

 siphonous jointed root-fibres from the under-surface. Branches 

 distichous with patent and rounded axils, slightly flexuose. 

 arranged in paniculate-corymbose manner with longer ones 

 below and becoming gradually shorter upward. They are 



