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Polypodium Fauriei Christ in Bull. Herb. Boiss. IV. (1896) p. 672, 

 et Frank, d. Erde (1S97) p. 83, in nota ; Diela in Engl, et Prantl, Nat. 

 Pfl.-Fain. I. 4, p. 312; Matsum. Ind. PI. Jap. I. p. 334. 



Nom. Jap. Oshaguji-denda, Oshagoji-denda. 



Hob. Japan, widely distributed. 



The peculiarity of this fern is the circinate state of the frond in drying. 



Sciaphila (Eusciaphila) tosaensis Makino sp. nov. 



A little monoecious leafless perennial, subhyaline, glabrous, purplish, 

 about 5-10 cm. high. Rhizome subterranean, narrow, laxly with lato- 

 subulate acute and concave scales ; roots fibrous, elongate, filiform, loose or 

 fasciculate, villose with white spreading hairs. Stem erect, usually simple, 

 or sometimes with a branch, straight or more or less irregularly curved, 

 often with very distantly placed a few adpressed concave subulate or ovato- 

 subulate scales about 3 mm. long, terete and subangulate, |-1^ mm. across. 

 Raceme terminal, simple, laxly and alternato-subsecundly about 3-S-flowered, 

 male above and female below, 1-3| cm. long ; rachis straight or refiexed, 

 gracile ; bract subtending the pedicel, erect-patent, sessile, ovate-subulate to 

 oval, acute, entire or nearly so, very concave, membranaceous, shorter or 

 longer than the pedicel, shortly projected at the base in the lower ones, 

 li_3i mm. long. Flowers (male and female) about 7 mm. across ; pedicel 

 erect or ascending, gracile, straight or substraight, i-S mm. long. Perianth 

 patent, deeply 6-parted, sometimes abnormally 4-parted in the superior one, 

 thin, glabrous, densely celluloso-subbullate, persistent; lobes narrowly subulate, 

 grudually filiform towards the naked apex, entire, 1-nerved, about 3-3^ mm. 

 long, 8-3 mm. broad at the base. Stamens 3, short ; filaments thick, 

 minutely papillose, connate below, the free portion very short and lobe-form ; 

 anther opposite to perianth-lobes, terminal, sessile, slightly depressed, trans- 

 versely elliptical or oval-elliptical, 1-celled, extrorse, dehiscing transversely, 

 about ^ mm. long ; pistillode none. Ovaries numerous, densely aggregated 

 into a sessile globose head shorter than the perianth and about l|-2 mm. 

 across, sessile on the elevated globular receptacle, obliquely obovoid, minutely 

 granulated, about | mm. long ; ovule solitary, obovoid, erect ; style ventral, 

 inserted to the infra-medium, slightly exceeding the ovary, clavellato- 

 filiform, celluloso-bullate, about | mm. long ; stigma simple, obtuse, spiculo- 

 scabrous. Carpels numerous, conglomerate into a globose sessile head about 

 3-4 mm. across, accompanied by the persistent perianth below and also by 

 persistent style which much shorter than carpels, obovoid, attenuated towards 



