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larger and attaining abont 3 cm. across, tlie lateral ones distant and with 

 rather long peduncles; radii several, unequal, erect or erect-patent; bracts 

 leafy : bracteoles setaceo-linear or setaceous. SpicuUe oblong-ovate, acute, 

 ferrugineo-brunneus, 3-4-flovvered, 4^ mm. long. Empty glumes 3-4, el- 

 liptical-ovate ; flowering ones larger and broadly ovate. Setre G, unequal 

 in length, shorter or slightly longer than the acliene, antrorsely scabrous. 

 Stamens 3-1 ; filaments exceeding the rostrum of the mature achene. 

 Achene oval-obovate, 1^ mm. long, biconvej:, ferrugiueous, transversely ru- 

 gulose ; rostrum shorter than the achene, lato-conical, strong, dilated at the 

 l)ase ; stylo deeply bifid, the branches as long as the main portion. 



Rah. Prov. Kii : Iwashiro (./. Matsutiiura and S. Okubo ! herb. Sc. 

 Cull. Imp, Univ. Tokyo, July 23, 1883) ; Prov. Tosa : Ichinose in Plata-gori 

 {T. MaUno\ Aug. 2, 1889), Ko^hi (A'. Naganumal 188G), Godaisan (I!. 

 Yatahe ! herb. ibid. July 30, 1888) ; Prov. Iyo : Near Matsuyama {Z. 

 Ifiuemura ! July 4, 1897) ; Prov. Totomi : Nobe-mura in Toyoda-gori (31. 

 Hisamatsu I herb. ibid. Sept. 1893) ; Prov. Higo : Hankawauchi in Amakusa 

 {M. Murakami ! Aug. 19, 1903) ; Prov. Ise : Kabuto in Suzuka-gori (Y. Uye- 

 riiatsu ! Oct. 4, 1903) ; Loochoo : Kunchan in Isl. Okinawa (H. Kurohca ! 

 May 1897). 



Rynchospora (DichostylejB) Umemurae j\Iakino, sp. nov. 



(PI. VII. fig. 8, «. h.) 



Caispitose, attaining about .50 cm. in height, estoloniferous ; rhizome 

 very short, with fibrous roots. Culm erect, very slender, setaceous, one- 

 sulcate on one side, scabrous above, laxly short-branched, very laxly corymbi- 

 ferous throughout. Leaves setaceo-linear, 1mm. or little more wide, much 

 shorter than the culm, trigonous and scabrous towards the obtuse apex. 

 Coi-ymbs fasciculately 2-4-spiculose ; bracts setaceous, scabrous. Spicula? 

 erect, 2-3- sometimes 1-flowered, elliptico-ovate, shortly acuminate, ferrugineo- 

 brunneus, 3-3i mm. long. Em[)ty glumes 2, ovato-lanceolate, very thin ; 

 flowering ones ovate. Setas 6, slightly longer than the achene, fulvous, 

 antrorsely scabrous. Stamen 1 ; filament lower than the rostrum of tlie 

 mature achene. Achene oval-obovate, biconvex, pale-flavescent Avith a 

 slight ferruginous stain, transversely sub-rugulose, 1^ mm. long ; rostrum 

 angustato-conical, shorter than the achene ; style deeply l)ifid, branches 4| 

 as long as the main [wrtion. 



Hah. Prov. Ise: Heki-mura (Z. Umetii/iral Oct. G, 189.3). 



Very closely allied to Rynchospora Hattoriuna Makino, but seta3 are 



