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ART. 4. SHUTAI OKAMUEA : 



Fiff. 15. Meteoriella soluta. 

 A. FoUa (x20). 



noso, cellulis oblongo-liexagonis paulum incrassatis c. 20-28 x 15- 



20 /^ magnis, cellulis periphericis c. 

 3-4-seriatis minoribus hexagonis vel 

 oblongo-hexagonis c. l~10fi magnis 

 valde incrassatis rubiginosis ; ramis c. 

 1-2.5 cm. longis, patnlis, densiuscule 

 foliosis teretibus, apice obtusis vel 

 breviter attenuatis, simplicibus vel 

 1-o-ramulosis ; ramnlis usque ad 5 

 mm. longis. Folia sicca vix mutata, e 

 basi cordata erecta auriculata (auriculis 

 parce circinatis caulem amplexis) ovata 

 elliptica vel subrotundata, apice subu- 

 lato-acuminata divaricata vel recurvo-squarrosa, c. 2.0-2.4 mm. 

 longa et c. 1.0-1.1 mm. lata, valde concava, marginibus sub- 

 integerrimis vel minutissime serrulatis ; nervis binis, inaequalibus, 

 usque ad medimn folii evanidis, in sectione transversali basi e 

 2-stratis cellularum uniformium incrassatarum compositis ; cellulis 

 laevissimis, linearibus, parietibus incrassatis minute porosis, c. 

 42-56 II longis et c. 7 /^ latis, superioribus c. 28-40 /^- longis et c. 

 4-5, a latis, basilaribus abbreviatis latioribus c. 15-20/^ longis et 

 c. 15/^ latis fuscis. 



Houdo : Prov. Ise, in monte Gozaislio, Mie-gun (Leg. Kichitaro Mu- 

 EATA ! 17. X. 1914.). 



Species nova ad floram japonicam. 

 Distr. Sikkim. 



Meteoriella Kiitôi (Sh. Okamuba) 8h. Okamuka. Com. nov. 



Syn. Meteoriella solufa (Mitt.) Sh. Okamuea. var. Kufôi Sh. Okamuea. 

 Jom-. CoU. Sei. Imper. Univ. Tokyo. Yol. XXXYI. Art. 7. p. 18, (1915.). 



