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Bynchospora ScJiraderiana Steud. 1. c. p. 14G. 



Calypt7'ostylis asperida Nees. 



(PI. VII. fig. 2, a. h.) 



Culm erect, robust, trigonous, foliate throughout, the apical portion 

 one-sulcate with scabrous edges on one side. Leaves long, linear, about 

 11mm, wide, acuminate towards the acutish apex, scabrous-margined, 

 vagina with a short broad membranaceous ligula at the mouth. Corymbs 

 compound, clustered into a short and broad panicle with numerous spicul;^ ; 

 radii several, umbellate, patent ; 2nd radii subumbellato-racemosely disposed, 

 patent, with a cluster of spiculee towards the apex; the terminal one about 

 10cm. across; the lateral ones alike as 2nd radii of the terminal one, with 

 an erect peduncle arising from the superior axils and lower down the culm ; 

 involucral-bracts leafy, longer than the panicle, attaining about 17 cm, long 

 and 7 mm. broad ; bracts and bracteoles setaceous. SpicuUe erect and erect- 

 ])atent and patulous, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, ferrngineo-brunneus, 

 9-10 mm. long, with 1 perfect flower and 1 or 2 males. Em{)ty glumes 

 4, subulato-ovate ; flowering ones Lnger, ovate but the superior ones ovato- 

 lanceolate to lanceolate. Seta? 6, antrorsely scabrous, longer than the 

 achene but lower than the rostrum of the achene. Stamens 3 ; filament 

 long, lower than the rostrum of the mature achene. Achene oblong-obovate, 

 ferrugineo-bay, compressed, with a few pits, transversely rngulose, 2t\ mm. 

 long ; rostrum slenderly subulato-conical, gradually attenuated above, dilated 

 and as broad as the achene at the base, calyptrately crowned with free 

 margin on the achene, longer than the achene, broadly and shallowly 

 furrowed on both faces, 5| mm. long ; style long, 17 mm. long, very shortly 

 bifid at the apex. 



Hal). Yaeyama Archip. (7. Tashirol herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. 

 Tokyo, Aug. 1887). 



Rynchospora (Dichostylete) Fujiiana Makino, sp. nov. 



(PL VII. fig. 3.) 



Densly ca3spitose, green, attaining 95 cm. in height, estoloniferous ; 

 rhizome very short, densely rooting. Culm erect, very slender, setaceo- 

 filiform above, loosely foliate, scabrous in the superior portion. Leaves 

 angustato-linear, rigidulous, attaining l|mm. broad, setaceous and trigonous 

 and scabrous towards the acutish apex, much shorter than the culm. Corymb 

 fasciculately 1-14-spiculose, attaining 1 cm. in diameter, often pauci-con- 

 tinued, the lower ones distant and peduncled, the peduncle erect and rather 



