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\y fioriferous, the soriferons portion similar to the sterile portion in shape. 



A raonotypic genus. Quite the habit of Vittaria, and it is to be 

 distinguished from that gemis principally by the anastomosing venation, 

 peltate paraphyses, and articulated bases of the fronds. Its nearest 

 affinity is found in DrymogloRsmn, but fronds of the latter are quite 

 dimorphous, Hymcnolepis, in which the soriferous portion of the frond 

 is contracted, and Heteropter/'s, in which sori are intramarginal on more 

 or less contracted portion of the frond, also apparently differ from the 

 present genus. 



(Etyji.) Drymos, a forest, and fainia, a fillet; the fern inhabits forests 

 and with long narrow fronds. 



D. Miyoshianiim ]\Iakino nom. nov. 



Tcemfis Miyosldana Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XII. 1898, p. 2G. 



TmiiLls sp. Miyoshi, ibidem, III. 1889, p. 3.51-53, tab. XII F. 



Vein-areoles Avith or without free inckuled veinlet. 



For the description the remark, etc., see the Magazine cit^d above. 

 In the issuing number (Vol. I. No. 12) of my " Phanerogam.'e et Pterido- 

 phytfB Japonicaa iconibus illustratfe " figures with detail will appear. 



Gardneria multiflora Makino Notes on Jap. PI. XY. in Bot. 

 Mag., Tokyo, VI. 1892, p. 53. 



Glabrous voluble shrub. 8tem slender, cylindrical, smooth, branching, 

 internodes shorter or longer than leaves. Leaves opposite, spreading, 

 shortly petioled, angnstato-lanceolate, acuminate, gradually attenuated be- 

 low, entire and more or less sub-repand, cbartaceo-coriaceous, deep-green 

 above, paler beneath, 41-I45 cm. long, 1^-3| cm. broad; midrib slender, 

 prominent beneath ; veins delicate, about 6-9 on each side, loose, spread- 

 ing and at last connect with above one ; veinlets not conspicuous ; petiole 

 i-li cm. long, cylindrical, often curved. Cyme axillary, more or less 

 nutant, much shorter than tiie leaves but longer than the petiole, 2- 

 2i cm. long, with glabrous gracile peduncle, divaricately trichotomous or 

 often again di- or trichotomous with glabrous gracile pedicels ; bract minute, 

 subulate, ciliated. Flower small, yellow, 12-13 mm. across, conico-cylin- 

 drical in bud, often punctate externally. Sepals 5, minute, unequal in 

 size, imbricated, thick, orbicular, glabrous, but ciliated on the margin, 1^- 

 li mm. long. Corolla deeply 5-parted, rotate, patent ; tube equalling 

 the calyx in length ; lobes valvate in bud, narrowly lanceolate, acute, 

 entire, thick, longitudinally 2-carinate on the internal margins, glabrous 



