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green, scabrous on the upper margin, 3-7 mm. broad, long-sheathing at the 

 base. Culm erect, about 2-5-crespitose, slender, trigonous with glabrous 

 edges, smooth, green. Umbel with 4-9 rays, loose, 4-16 cm. across; rays 

 erect-patent, unequal in length, the interior one sessile ; peduncles slender, 

 strict, compressed, the longest one about 11cm. long, basal sheath 4-13mm. 

 long, truncate ; involucres 3-4, long, leafy, the outer ones much exceeding 

 the rays, the longest one about 26 cm. Spikes often 2 to 6 or solitary 

 to a ray, many-spiculose, 1-2 cm. across, lateral ones sessile and -patently 

 radiate and shorter than the terminal one ; rachis slender, angulate, gla- 

 brous ; bracts few, setaceo- subulate or setaceo-linear, usually shorter than 

 the spike. Spicule subcapitato-racemosely and rather densely disposed, 

 erect-patent or patulose, linear, 5-15 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, compressed, 

 sublaxly and distichously 8-23-flowered, yellowish-auranticous ; rachilla com- 

 pressed, distinctly narrow-winged, glabrous. Glume l|mm. long, erect- 

 patent, orbicular, rounded and cuspidate at the apex (the cuspidate point 

 erect and not long), entire, carinato-navicular, glabrous, with 5-nerves 

 towards the centre, often reddish-ferruginous near and between the nerves, 

 viridescent at the back, membranaceous and aurantfco-yellowish on sides. 

 Stamens 2, slightly exserted ; filament filiform ; anther oblong, |mm. long. 

 Style minute, very short ; arms 3, delicate, filiform, longer than the style. 

 Caryopsis slightly shorter than the glume, ljmm. long, oblong, slightly 

 narrowed below, trigonous, dark-brown, very minutely scabro-punctate, ob- 

 tuse and minutely beaked with the remaining style at the apex. 



Hab. Japan, widely distributed and common. 



Intermediate species among Cyperus Iria Linn, and C. amuricus 

 Maxim, closely approaching the latter one. 



Bulbostylis capillaris Kunth var. capitata (Miq.) Makino in Bot. 

 Mag., Tokyo, IX. (1895) p. 390. 



Isolepis capillaris /?. capitata Miq. Pro!. Fl. Jap. p. 75 ; Franch. et 

 Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. II. p. 116. 



Hab. Prov. Tosa : Sakawa (T. Makino ! 1884, Sept. 21, 1887), Iburi 

 (T. Makino ! Oct. 25, 1885), Saga (T. Makino ! Oct. 22, 1885), Near 

 Yokobatake (T. Makino ! Aug. 1885), Kawaguchi (K. Watanabel Oct. 

 1891); Prov. Omi: Near Uyeno-mura (T. Makino ! Nov. 1893). 



(To be acntinued). 



