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Teloxya aristata Moq. in Aon. Sc. Nat. 2 me Ser. I. p. 290, tab. 10, 

 fig. A; Id. Chenop. Monogr. Enum. p. 16; Id. in DO. Prodr. XIII. 2, 

 p. 59 ; Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Eoss. III. p. 693 ; Bunge 'in Maxim. Prim. 

 Fl. Amur. p. 222 ; Maxim. Ind. Fl. Pek. in Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 476. et 

 Ind. Fl. Mongol. 1. c. p. 484; Hegel, Tent. Fl. Ussur. n. 397; Herder, PI. 

 Kadd. Apetal. in Act, Hort. Petrop. X. p. 584; Korshinsky in Act. Hort. 

 Petrop. XII. p. 380; Franch. PI. David. I. p. 247; Bretschn. Hist. Eur. 

 Bot. Disc. Chin. pp. 179, 608. 



Lecanocarpm aristatus Zucc. 'in Mart, Hort. Monac. (1829) p. 5GJ 



Chenopodium secundijiorum Viv. ' Fl. Lib. Spec. p. 67.' 



Chenopodium foliis ex Urteari lanceolatis, racemis c&njugatis, dicho- 

 tomis, nudis, apice setaceis Grael. Fl. Sib. III. p. 83, n. 65, tab. 15, rig. I. 



An annual herb, much ramose. Stem erect, viridi-striate, papilloso- 

 puberulent; branches erect-patent. Leaves alternate, linear or linear-lanceo- 

 late, obtuse or acute, gradually attenuated to a short petiole below, entire, 

 subcarnose, glabrous, green ; midrib distinct ; veins inconspicuous. Floriferous 

 branches short, very numerous, erect-patent, divaricately dichotomous, with 

 aristato-cetaceous sterile extreme branchlets, corymb-like, loosely and cymosely 

 disposed with flowers, leafless, angulate, glabrous, viridescent. Flower very 

 minute, axillary, solitary, sessile, subsessile, or very shortly pedicellate., ebrac- 

 teate. Calyx deeply 5-parted, herbaceous, glabrous, viridescent, persistent ; 

 lobes obovate or obovato-elliptical, rounded-obtuse, concave, at length sub- 

 carinate dorsally, inappendieulate, the middle greeu, both sides membrana- 

 ceous and diaphanous; in fruit erect-patent and incarved holding the fruit, 

 unchanged but slightly enlarged. Ovary included, globose ; style 1, erect, 

 very short ; stigmas 2, patent, linear, longer than the style. Utricle 

 depressed, about § mm. across; pericarp very thin, pale, close to the seed. 

 Seed horizontal, lenticular with the obtuse margin, depressed, smooth, nigro- 

 purpurascent ; testa thin, crustaceous ; albumen copious, farinaceous ; embryo 

 annular, the caulicle somewhat longer than cotyledons. 



Nom. Jap. Hari-seinbon (nov.). 



Hub. Prov. Shixano : Kawakami-mura in Minamisaku-gdri (A'. Ko- 

 ydma ! 1904). 



Xew to the Flora of Japan, very rare. In the specimens 1 examined, 

 all the flowers bear no stamen, exhibiting a female habit. 



Distrib. Siberia, Mandshuria, Mongolia, Northern and Central China, 

 and Alaska. 



{To be continued.) 



