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Oldham in Nagasaki, and quoted under Gymnogramme lance data by Hooker 

 in his Species Filicum, V. p. 157, may be probably identical with ours. 



Loxogramme minor (Baker) Makino. 



Gymnogramme lanceolate/, var. minor Baker ex Maximowicz in litt. 

 1889; Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, X. (1896) p. 178. 



Poly podium Loxogramme var. minor Matsnm. Ind. PI. Jap. I. (1904) 

 p. 337. 



Polypodium yakushimce Christ in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2 Ser. I. (1900) 

 p. 1014; Matsuin. 1. c. p. 393. 



A little Fern, forming a loose mass. Rhizome gracile, long-creeping, 

 rooting ; scales denser at the base of the stipe, linear-subulate to subulate, 

 long-acuminate, thin, nigro-castaneous, with fine and distinct areoles. Frond 

 loosely placed on the rhizome, spathulate to linear-spathulate, obtuse, gradually 

 attenuated below and very angustately decurrent to a narrow stipe, entire 

 or sometimes subrepand, sometimes more or less irregular in form, attain- 

 ing about 10^ cm. long including the stipe, 3-12 mm. wide, coriaceo-mem- 

 branaceous, herbaceous in recent, glabrous on both sides ; midrib narrow 

 prominent above ; veins hidden, the areolae oblong to elongately oblonw 

 usually hexagonal, large in proportion, without any free veinlet. Sori in 

 the upper portion of the frond, oblique, arranged nearer to the midrib than 

 to the margin, oblong-linear or oblong, straight or somewhat curved outwards 

 1-6 on each side. Sporangia : the pedicel longer than the globose case. 



Nom. Jap. Hime-sajiran. 



Hah. Prov. Kaga : Yumoto on Mt. Hakusan (R. Yatabe and J. Matsu- 

 mura\ herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Aug. 6, 1S81); Prov. Tosa : 

 Suginokawa (T. 3Ialcino\ Nov. 1885), Hayama-go (T. Makino ! 1892); 

 Prov. Iyo : Nishinokawa (K. Watanabel Sept. 25, 1891); Prov. Idzu : Mt. 

 Amagi (S. Matsuda ! Dec. 29, 1893 ; Z. Horiye ! May 14, 1905) ; Prov. 

 Kn: Mt. Koya (H. Nakanishikil Aug. 1905); Prov. Satsuma : Isl. Yaku- 

 shima (U. Faurie ! July 1900). 



Polypodium japonicum (Franch. et Sav.) Makino. 



Polypodium vulgare var. japonicum Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. 

 II. (1879) p. 244 ; Matsum. Catal. Herb. Coll. Sc. Imp. Univ. Tokyo 

 (1886) p. 255, Shokubutsu Mei-i (1895) p. 230, et Ind. PI. Jap. 1.(1904) 

 p. 340. 



