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a basi distinctis crispatis floribus a se $ mm. remotis. Spice 2 
laterales breve pedunculate vel superiore subsessiles cylindric 
14-2 cm. longs 3-4 mm. late dense florate, floribus a se 4 mm. re- 
motis, squamis 24 mm. longis 1 mm. latis ovatis apice cuspidatis 
basi plus minus contractis 3 mm. latis ad insertionem sinuatis dorso 
obscure costatis. Utriculus ovato-fusiformis 3 mm. longus 1 mm. 
latus apice rostratus bidentatus basi breve attenuato-obtusus 
glaber minute-maculato-punctatus antice prominente convexus 
postice subplanus vel paullo convexus latere costatus. Acheenia 
trigono-ovoidea, (angulis obtusis non costatis), plus minus obliqua 
apice obtusa basi acuta glabra rubescentia. Styli basi plus 
minus incrassati, (sed non conici), a basi reflexi supra basin 
recurvato-erecti basi flavescentes supra basin fusco-rubescentes 
supra medium 3-fidi, ramis filiformibus hirtellatis. 
Has. in monte Morrison, leg. T, Kawaxami et U. Mort, 1906, 
Nov. (No. 2298). 
Very near C. japonica Tuuns., but differs from it by the 
nearly sessile spikes. There is a very similar specimen at Kew, 
collected by Dr. A. Henry, which is named C. japonica THuns. 
by C. B. Cuarke. 
Carex reflexistyla Hayara sp. nov. Culmi cire. 30 cm. longi 
folio breviores, inferiore foliis caspitosis, basi, squamis fusco- 
purpurascentibus 5-7 cm. longis involucrati, graciles triquetri ad 
angulos scabridi facie striati, partibus spiciferis 11 em. longis. 
Folia basin culmi conferta basi erecta supra basin subito recur- 
vato-patentia linearia 36-40 cm. longa culmos in __ longitudine 
superantia 6 mm. lata utrinque glabra subtus prominente costata 
arcte nervata, nervis inter costas et margines 7-8, ad costas et 
margines scabrida, basi fuscentia, vaginosa, vaginis circ. 5 cm. 
