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apex. Style long, exserted, 3-fitl, ferruginous, about 7 mm. long, the main 

 portion filiform, pubescent towards the top ; arms shorter than the main 

 portion, filiform, puberulent. Caryopsis nearly as \ glume, nearly 2 mm. 

 long, biconvex, late-^bovoid, stramineous, the outermost cells transverse-oblong, 

 arranged in many longitudinal series ; style-base shorter than the caryopsis, 

 deltoid-conical, flat, with a raised annular truncate base, brunnescent. 



Nom. Jap. Misumi-i (nov.). 



Bab. Chikuzen in Kiusiu : Near Fukuoka {Kikmiro Nagano ! July- 

 Aug. 1894). 



New to Japanese Flora. 



Eleocharis (Eleocharis propria) nipponica Makino sp. nov. 



Perennial, densely crespitose, attaining 22 cm. in height, glabrous; roots 

 fasciculato-fibrous. Stems erect, gmcile, strict, terete lint 5-7-striate, attain- 

 ing about % mm. in diameter, green ; vagina a ngusta to-terete, fistulose, 

 membranaceous, obliquely truncate, with a mucronate point, 5-7-nerved, 

 of'teu purpurascent below, li-4cm. long; basal scales few, short, very thinly 

 membranaceous. Spicula terminal, solitary, erect, linear-cylindrical to ob- 

 jong-linear, acuminate, 7-17 mm. long, l-*-2£ mm. across, purpurascent, 

 sometimes proliferous at base ; rachilla glabrous ; basal scale thinly mem- 

 branaceous, pellucid towards the margin, elliptical to oval-ovate, rounded 

 or emarginate at apex, embracing, trinerved and viridescent in centre (nerves 

 close and connate above), obscurely carinate, about 3 mm. long. Glumes 

 imbricated, erect, ovato-elliptical, rounded or rounded-obtuse at apex, membra- 

 naceous, ferrugineo-purpurascent above, very thin and diaphanous below and 

 towards the entire margin, concave, not keeled, about 2|-3 mm. long ; 

 midrib rather strong, viridescent, stopping before reaching the apex, nerve- 

 less on both sides. Seta) 6, slightly exceeding the beak (style-base) in 

 height, or lower than it, setaceous, . subrigid, retrorsely spinulose, ferrugineous, 

 or pale. Stamens 3 ; filament filiform, lower than the style; anther linear, 

 minutely mucronato-acute, about -| mm. long. Style slightly exserted, 

 deeply 3-fid, much dilated at base, brunneo-ferruginous ; arms recurved, 

 about as long as the main portion (except the basal dilated portion), pu- 

 berulent. Caryopsis shorter than glumes, lato-obovoid, compressed- trigonous, 

 yellowish, very minutely foveolato-punctate under lens, about 1-li mm. 

 long; style-base ovato-triangular or oblong-conical, compressed-triquetrous, 

 ferrugineo-punctate or pale, nearly as i caryopsis or nearly as long as it. 



llab. l'rov. Saoami: Side of Lake Ashi on Ml-, llakono (T. dlakinol 



