g BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. [Voi.xix. 



veinlets delicate and loosely anastomosing ; reduced leaves minute, squami- 

 form, 4-9 or sometimes 12, very loosely disposed on the stem between the 

 leaves and raceme, adpressed or erect-patent, or spreading, subulate or 

 linear-subulate, long-acuminate, viridescent, thin, glabrous, 1-nerved, l|-5mm. 

 long. Kaceme erect, loosely 6-21-flowered ; rachis filiform, straight, or 

 subflexuous above, 2|-7 cm. long ; bracts {Fig. II. 1-2.) erect-patent, 

 adpressed to and apparently shorter than the pedicel, subulate, acuminate, 

 1-3 mm. long. Flowers small, viridescent with no trace of purple ; pedicels 

 erect-patent, gracile, puberulent or glabrous, 2-5 mm. long. Perianth erect- 

 patent or recurvo-patent, equal in length, thinly membranaceous, 1-nerved, 

 reflexed on margin, 2-2| mm. long. Sepals: the superior one (Fig. II. 3.) 

 oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or acutish-obtuse ; lateral ones (Fig. II. 4.) similar 

 but slightly oblique in form. Petals (Fig. II. 5.) linear, very obtuse. 

 Labellum (Fig. II. 6-7.) 2-2^-times the length of the perianth, narrowly 

 obovato-cuneate, gradually attenuated below and without basal teeth, obcor- 

 date with oval or oval-ovate lobes (rounded at the apex and entire or 

 obscurely crenulate on margin) and closed sinus above, rarely obcordato- 

 cuneate (Fig. 11. 8.) with an open sinus and divergent oval lobes, often 

 pointed with a minute depressed-deltoid or depressed-rounded projection in its 

 bottom between lobes, 5-6£ mm. long, 2-4 mm. wide in the upper broad 

 portion, the median nerve thicker ; veins which run into the lobes branched. 

 Column l|-2 mm. long, straight ; clinandrium deeply concave, the dorsal 

 edcre obscurely crenulate ; anther elliptical-ovate ; rostellum broadly deltoid- 

 ovate ; stigma rounded. Ovary oblong or obconico-oblong, glabrous, 

 2-2^ mm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Ao-futabaran (T. Makino), Futaba-ran. 



Hob. Prov. Tosa : Mr. Yokogura (T. Makino \ Aug. 28, 1887), 

 Nanokawa (K. Watanabe ! herb. 8c. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Aug. 15, 1889) ; 

 Prov. Hitachi: Mt. Tsukuba (G. Owataril herb. ibid. July 25, 1895); 

 Prov. Shimotsuke: Nikko (H. Takedal Aug. 11, 1900; T. Makino \ June 

 1901, and Aug. 1903), Nikko ? (Herb. ! ibid. July 15, 1879) ; Prov. Iyo : 

 Nametoko (Z. Umemura ! July 1896) ; Prov. Iwashiro : Kaneda in Aidzu 

 (G. Nakaharal July 1903). 



Listera Yatabei Makino sp. nov. 



Whole plant 16-19 cm. in height. Rhizome subterranean, creeping, 

 filiform ; roots filiform, with rcot-hairs. Stem erect, slender, glabrous 

 below the leaves but above them pulescent with patent short glandular 



