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oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 2 mm. long. Petals subherbaceous, much smaller 

 and shorter than sepals, 1-nerved, linear-oblong, long-acuminate with an 

 obtuse or acutish point, entire, abruptly much recurved above, 1^ mm. long. 

 Labellum turned upwards, shorter than sepals, sessile, broadly deltoid-ovate, 

 often very obscurely trilobed below, obtuse or acutish, subcordate and em- 

 bracing the gynostemium at the base, concave, etuberculate, ecalcarate, 

 subherbaceous, green, 3-nerved, li mm. long. Gynostemium very short, 

 thickish, terete, straight, the clinandrium hollowed and bidentate at the 

 apical edge ; anther ovato-deltoid, acutish, situated behind the stigma (which 

 is placed under the rostellum) and sessile at the apex of the hollow of the 

 clinandrium, suberect, persistent, distinctly 2-locular, dehiscing upwards, the 

 loculament ovato-oblong ; rostellum retuse or bifid, erect or suberect. Pol- 

 linia 4, incumbent, clavato-oblong, compressed, sessile, waxy, yellow, in 2 

 pairs, both pairs suspended from a minnte gland which terminates the 

 anther. Ovary ellipsoid, about 1 mm. long, viridescent. Capsule ellipsoid- 

 globose, turgid, 6-sulcate, slightly oblique in form, erect, a little longer than 

 the pedicel, 3 mm. long, with the erect persistent perianth. 



Nom. Jap. YacM-ran (nov.). 



Hub. Prov. Shimotsuke: in Sphagnum bog in Akanuma-no-hara on 

 Mt. Nikko OS'. Aisawa ! July 27, 1904). 



New to the Flora of Japan, very rare. 



Distrib. Central and West Europe : Great Britain, Scandinavia, Pmssia, 

 Belgium, Holland, Germany, and Austria. North Asia: Siberia (Baikal 

 and Davuria). 



Chenopodium (Botrydium) aristatum Linn. Sp. PI. p. 221, et ed. 

 2, p. 321, excl. (3.; Richt. Cod. n. 1815; Houtt, Nat, Hist. XXV. (1777) 

 p. 782, et. Linn. Pfl.-Syst. V. p. 814; Willd. Sp. PI. I. p. 1307; Id. 

 Enum. PI. Hort. Bat, Berol. p. 291 ; Pers. Syn. PI. I. p. 295 ; Ait. Hort. 

 Kew. ed. 2, II. p. 101; Spreng, Syst. Veg. I. p. 921; Schult. Syst. Veg. 

 VI. p. 264, excl /?. ; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I. p. 410 ; Bunge, Enum. PI. Chin. 

 Bor. p. 57, n. 314 ; Id. Enum. Salsol. Centrasiat. in Act. Hort. Petrop. VI. 

 p. 405 ; Id. Enum. Salsol. Mongol, in Mel. Biol. X. p. 278 ; Id. Salsol. 

 Herb. Petrop. in Act. Hort. Petrop. XIII. p. 19; Forbes et Hemsl. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. XXVI. p. 324 ; Volkens in Engler et Prantl, Nat. PfL- 

 Fam. III. 1 a, p. 58, fig. 25, C-G ; Diels, Fl. Centr.-Chin. in Engler's 

 Bot, Jahrb. XXIX. p. 316. 



Atriplex aristata Crantz ' Inst. I. p. 208.' 



