396 ART. I.—B. HAYATA: 
antice planum, postice angulato-elevatum, 14 mm. longum 1 
mm. latum, flavescens glabrum, stylo haud incrassato, postice 
reflexo, a medio 3-fido, ramis fusco-rubescentibus minute _hir- 
tellatis. 
Has. Nanto: Musha, leg. T. Kawaxamt et U. Mort, 1908, 
Mart. (No. 3749). 
Near C. kiyotensis Cuarke and also C. nemostachys STEvD., 
but differs from both in the shape of nutlets. 
Carex Shimadai Hayara sp. nov. Culmi 70-80 cm. alti, folium 
excedentes, gracillimi basi foliis confertis, supra basin usque ad 
apicem non foliati, triquetri, a facie 3 mm. lati. Folia angus- 
tissima, linearia 60 cm. longa 3 mm. lata, plicato-teretia, recto- 
recurvata, sub recta, subtus obscure costata, costis inconspicuis, 
supra multinervata, ad nervos et margines scaberula, basi 
vaginosa, vaginis 6-25 cm. longis in longitudine mutabilibus, 
liguis circ. — obsoletis. Spice racemose 3-4-disposite, 
racemis 25 em. longis, spicis ad nodos solitariis longe vel 
breve pedunculatis a se 5-8 cm. remotis ad nodos 1-bracteatis, 
bracteis longe vaginosis, vaginis 2-34 em. longis ore obliquis, 
laminis cuspidatis 1 cm. longis vel superiore obsoletis. Spice } 
terminales longe cylindric, 9 cm. longe 3 mm. lates. Spice ¢ 
laterales cylindrice 5 cm. long, pedunculis 3-6 cm. longis. FI. 7: 
squame oblongo-angustate 7 mm. longs, 24 mm. late, apice acute 
basi sensim angustatze basi #mm. late, castaneo-fuscentes, dorso 
medio costate, costis planis flavescentibus prope apicem evanes- 
centibus. Fl. 2: squame late ovate squamis { multo breviores, 
4mm. longe 3mm. late apice brevissime cuspidate castaneo- 
fuscentes, ad basin et marginem non coloratee, haud costate. Utriculus 
oblongo-lanceolatus 53 mm. longus, 14 mm. latus apice attenuatus 
