MATERIALS FOR A FLORA OF FORMOSA. 385 
Carex Kawakamii Havara sp. nov. Culmi ascendentes 7 cm. 
longi acuto-trigoni sub-alati ad angulos scabriuseuli basi foliati. 
Folia tenuia  erecto-recurvata sursum patentia 8-9 cm. longa 
culmos superantia 2-24 mm. lata utraque pagine et ad costas mar- 
ginemque glabra subtus distincte costata apice acuminata basi 
vaginiformia (vaginis demum explicatis 2 em. longis prope marginem 
hyalinis). Spice pauci-florate 3-4 alternatim dispositee, termi- 
nales ¢, relique ?, sub quoque spica unibracteate, bracteis in- 
ferioribus longioribus spicas 3-4-plo superantibus, spicis brevissime 
pedunculatis. Spice 2: cylindrice 1 ecm. longe 1mm. late 
pauciflorate ; squamis oblongis 5 mm. longis 2 mm. latis apice 
acutis minutissime hirtellis a basi contractis ad  insertionem 
I mm. latis dorso costatis. Spice & spicis 2 latiores pauci- 
florate, squamis dimidium squamas § squantibus cuspidato-ovatis 
2$ mm. longis 14 mm. latis dorso costatis costis apice in cuspidem 
productis glabris. Utriculus valde exsertus squamas cire. 2-plo in 
longitudine equans ovoideo-fusiformis 5 mm. longus 13 mm. latus 
sub-trigonus antice elevato-convexus postice subplanus apice 
rostratus basi acutus apice 2-dentatus glaber non punctatus a 
latere tenuiter costatus inter costas 2-nervatus. Achsenium obo- 
voideum 13 mm. longum 1 mm. latum vel latius apice rotundatum 
basi acutum subtrigonum, (angulis obtusis), flavo-rubescens ; stylus 
basi oblique erectus haud_ incrassatus supra medium 3-fidus, 
ramis reflexis hirtellatis. 
Has. in monte Morrison, (No. 2385). 
Near C. pseudoyaponica Hayara, but differs from it in having 
nearly erect styles and not punctate utricles. 
Carex ligata Boorr var ; formosensis (Liv. et Van.) Ktxenru. 
in Eneu. Pfl.-reich IV.-20, Cyp.-Caricoid. p. 474. 
