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JlyncJiospora parva Kimtli I. c. p. 302. 



3Iorisia capitata Nees in Linnaea IX. p. 295. 



Blariscus umbellatus var. procerior ZoU. ]. c. p. 63. 



Scirpus retusus Koeuig. 



(PI. VII. fig. 1, a. b.) 



Cfespitose, estoloniferous, attaining 65cm. in heiglit ; rhizome very short, 

 fasciculately rooting. Culm erect, slender, smooth, finely striate, foliate 

 at the base. Leaves several, green, not rigid, very narrowly linear, shorter 

 than the culm, attaining 2 mm. Lroad, glabrous, minutely scabrous on 

 margins above, trigonous towards the acute apex, the interior ones long- 

 vaginate. Corymbs forming a terminal globose head, 15-17 mm. in diame- 

 ter ; involucral-bracts several, longer than the head, patent or more or less 

 reflexed, unequal, leafy, subulato-linear, scabrous-margined, ciliated and dilated 

 at the base, the longest one about 6 cm. Spiculre numerous, dense, subulato- 

 lanceolate, compressed, 8 mm. long, testaceo-ferruginous, shining, with a female 

 flower below and 1-3 male flowers above. Glumes carinate; emjjty ones 3-4, 

 mucronato-acute, the lower ones subulato-ovate, the superior larger and 

 elliptical-ovate ; flowering ones : the lower one ovate and longer than the 

 empty ones, the superior ones longer and ovato-lanceolate or lanceolate. 

 Setf© 6, unequal in length, much shorter than the achene, antrorsely scabrous. 

 Stamens 3; filament a little exceeding the glume; anther linear. Achene 

 orbiculato-obovate to obovate, biconvex, minutely scabro-ciliated on shoulders, 

 thinly spinuloso-scabrous above, fulvo-castaneous, very minutely punctate, 

 sub-thiniug, li^-lf mm, long ; rostrum very short, minute, conico-deltoid, 

 suddenly dilated at the base; style long, filiform, undivided. 



Ilah. Prov. Buzen : Yazaki-mura in Usa-gori (Harb. ! tSc. Coll. Imp. 

 Univ. Tokyo, Sept. 1880), Jono-mura (31. Yano ! Aug. 13, 1903) ; Prov. 

 Hyuga : Nishigatake-mura (7/. Yatahe and J. Matsumura\ herb. ibid. July 

 22, 1882); Prov. Kti : Arashika {J. Blatstauura and S. Dkubo\ herb. ibid. 

 July 1883); Pruv. Tosa : Sakawa (T. 3Iakino\ 1885), Yunoki in Hata-gOri 

 (T. Maldno\ Aug. 6, 18S9), (lodaisun {R. Yatahe \ herb. ibid. July 30, 

 1888) ; Prov. MuvAwa : Takashi {T. Mahino ! Aug. 1899) ; Prov. Higo :. 

 Mt. Boshi in Amakusa {M. Murakami \ Sept. 1899); Prov. Hizen: Hikosan 

 in Nagasaki {N. Okada ! herb. ibid. Oct. 27, 1902) ; Prov. Suu : Ouchi- 

 mura (/A Nikatl herb. ibid. Aug. 26, 1892); Prov. Idzumi : Sunagawa 

 (S. Blatsuda ! Aug. 3, 1896) ; Loochoo : Isl. Okinawa {S. TasJuro ! herb, 

 ibid. March 1887). 



In all the Japanese specimens, which I have examined, the styles are 

 not divided. 



