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Cryptonemia Schmitziana Okam. 



Norn, Japi ! Ohba-kintoki. 

 PL LXXI, 



Prionilis Schmitziana Okam. Contr. Knowl. Mar. Alg. Jap. 

 Ill, p. 6, (Bot. Mag. Tokyo, Vol. XIII, No. 143, 1899); De Toni 

 Syll. Alg. IV, p. 1590; [3] fcf, B >t- S'i iH & m p- 91- Cryptonemia 

 Wilsoni (non. I. Ag.) Okam. New or little Jcnown Alg. Jap., p. 8, 

 pi. IX, f. 16-22 (Bot. Mag. Tokyo, Vol. IX, No. 106). 



Diagn. : " Frond high, stipitate, leathery, deep-red, without 

 midrib, branching by repeated proliferations from margin and apex 

 as well as from the surfaces ; with segments leaf-like, broadly 

 lanceolate, simple or forked and pedicellated, either entire or 

 wasted at margin. Fruits of both kinds collected in sporophylls, 

 densely arising from margin and surfaces. Tetraspores in thinner, 

 minute, roundish-oblong sporophylls. Cystocarps in similar but 

 thicker ones." Okam. I.e. 



Hab. ; On rocks in deep water. Shima, Mikawa, Sagami. 



Dcxrip. : " Fronds either solitary or coespitose, arising from a 

 common scutate disc, cuneato-lanceolate in their very young stage, 

 having a short thickened stem. This primary lanceolate form rarely 

 persists ; more usually, as the frond grows in thickness, it is wasted off 

 at its upper portion and then it assumes a broad wedge shape. 

 Proliferations arise from harmed ends, margins and surfaces. They 

 are when fully formed broadly lanceolate, with acute or blunt apex 

 and entire margin, tapering below into cuneate base and furnished 

 with short pedicels. They are mostly simple, but sometimes forked 

 near the base, and become in age wasted at their upper portion. 

 Younger proliferations are naked, but in older, again loaded with 



