76 ART. 4. — SHÜTM OKAMUEA : 



longo, stricto vel curvato. Calyptra c. 1.4 mm. longa, lutescens 

 apice fuscescens. 



Formosa : Prov. Taihoku-cliö ; Eifuknsan [77c ü^ Uj] (Leg. HiSAHiKO 

 Sasaoka ! 24. n. 1913.) ; Shabösau [fflj m Oj] (Leg. Yaichi Shimada ! 30. xn. 

 1914.). 



Species nova ad floram formosanara. 



Distr. endemica japonica. 



BRACHYTHEOIACEAE. 



Okamtiraea brevipes Broth. 



Habitat in arborum truncis. Plantae graciles, caespitosae, 

 caespitibus densiusculis, rigidiuscnlis, Intescenti-viridibua, nitidius- 

 cnlis. Caults elongatns, repens, c. 5-ß cm. longus, divisus, subir- 

 regulariter pinnatim ramosus, hie illic fasciculatim fusco-radicnlosns, 

 sectione teres, c. 0.24-0.32 mm. diam., fascicnlo centrali c. 30 /^ 

 magno paucicellulari, reti intermedio hyalino, ceUnlis hexagonis 

 vel oblongo-hexagonis tenellis c. 15// magnis, celMis periphericis c. 

 5-6-seriatis sensim minoribns luteo-fuscis vel fuscis incrassatis ; ramis 

 erectis, strictis vel substrictis, plernmque brevibus, c. 5-8 mm. 

 longis simplicibus, rarius 13 mm. longis subpinnatim vel sub- 

 fascicnlatim ramnlosis, omnino dense foliosis teretibus, apice 

 obtusis vel subacutis. Folia canlina et ramea sicca imbricato- 

 adpressa leviter plicata, madida erecto-patentia, concava, breviter 

 decurrentia, ovato-oblonga, apice acuta, in summo acnmen sensim 

 elongatnm subulatum angustum attenuata, c. 1.7-2.0 mm. (rarius 

 c. 2.4 mm.) longa et c. 0.64-0.85 mm. lata, basi tri-plicata, 

 marginibus basi late recurvis, ad apicem subplanis, integerrimis 

 vel minutissime serrulatis ; nervo valido, ultra medium folii evanido, 

 in sectione transversal! piano- convexo, basi c. 50 p- lato et c. 35 /^ 



