8G 



? Bynchospora fusca Miq. Pro!. Fl. Jap. ]\ 77, et Cat. Mn?. Bot. 

 Lugd.-Bat, FI. Jap. p. 119; Francli. et 8av. Eunm. Fl. Jap. II. p. 121, 

 non Vahl nee Lindl. 



(PI. VII. fig. 6.) 



Casspitose, green, rather robust, attaining 127 cm. in lieight, estolonifer- 

 ous ; rhizome very short, densely rooting. Culm erect, very slender, scabrous 

 above, very loosely foliate, the largest one 3i mm. across at the basal portion. 

 Leaves narrowly linear, much shorter than the culm, attaining 3i mm. 

 wide, scabrous and trigonous towards the acutish apex. Corymb fasciculately 

 2-9-flowered, attaining 1 cm. or more in diameter, more often subcompound 

 or compound, the lower ones distant and with the long peduncles which 

 are often binate from a vagina ; bracts angustato-linear. SpicuUe lanceo- 

 late, subulate, acuminate, erect, 7 mm. long, ferrugineo-castaneous, 5-flower- 

 ed. Empty glumes 3-4, ovate ; flowering ones elliptical-ovate. Sette 6, 

 long, antrorgely scabrous, exceeding the rostrum of the mature achene. 

 Stamens 2-3 ; filament lower than the style. Achene oval-obovate, bi- 

 convex, castaneous, transversely rugulose, 1| mm. long ; rostrum conical, 

 slightly shorter than the achene ; style very deeply bifid, the branches 

 longer than the main portion. 



ITab. Prov. Hyijga : Nishigatake mura (/?. Yatahe and J. Matsumura ! 

 herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Aug. 5, 1882); Prov. Tosa : Near 

 Sakawa {T. 3Iah'no\ 1SS4, 1885), Yunoki in Hata-gdri {T. MaJcinol Aug. 

 6, 1889); Prov. Mikawa : Takashi-hara (G. Nagural Sept. 9, 1896; T. 

 Malcino\ Au^. 1899); Prov. H.muma : T.surui-mura (/. Hashimoto \ Sept. 

 15, 1903) ; Prov. Buzen : Juno-mura (il/. Yano\ Aug. 13, 1903) ; Prov. Tsu- 

 shima: Idzunohara {K. Hirata\ Aug. 1901), Kutamichi {K. Hirotal Sept. 

 15, 1902). 



Rynchospora (Dichostyle^e) glauca Vahl Enum. PI. II. (1806) p. 

 233; Ecem. et Schult. Syst. Veg. 11. p. 85; Spreng. Syst. Veg. I. p. 197; 

 Kunth Enum. PI. II. p. 297, excl. syn. pi. ; Breck. in Linna-a XXXVIT. 

 p. 585, excl. "forma major"; Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. Cyper. (1855) p. 145 ; 

 F. Muell. Fragm. Phyt. Austral. IX. p. 17, et Sec. Syst. Cens. Austral. 

 PI. p. 214; Benth. FI. Austral. VII. p. 349; Clarke in Hook. fil. FI. 

 Brit. Ind. VI. p. 671, et in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXIV. p. 90 ; 0. Kuntze 

 Rev. Gen. PI. II. p. 756, et IIL 2, p. 335 ; Pears, in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 XXXIV. p. 358. 



Rynchospora laxa R. Br. Prodr. FI. Nov. Holl. (1810) p. 230; Nees 



