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scabrous upwards, and spiculte are somewhat shorter ; probahly it is a variety 

 of that species. 



Rynchospora (Dichostyle^e) Fauriae Franch. in Bull. Soc. Philom. 

 Paris, 27 mars 1886, p. 4. 



(PI. VII. fig. 9.) 



Cajspitose, green, estoloniferous ; rhizome short, ascending, densely root- 

 ing. Culm erect, attaining 73 cm. in lieight, slender, scabrous in the 

 apical portion, very laxly foliate. Leaves rigid, angustato-linear, attaining 

 3 mm. broad, trigonous in the apical portion, obtuse at the apex, scabrous- 

 margined, much shorter than the culm. Corymbs 3-8, more or less 

 compound, fasciculately 6-9-spiculose ; apical ones subcontinued, with Horal 

 bracts which are slightly exserted ; inferior ones distant and long-pedunc- 

 led, sometimes binate from a vagina ; bracts angustato-linear, attain- 

 ing 2mm. wide; floral bracts very angustately subulato-Hnear. SpicuUe 

 erect, linear-lanceolate, subulate, acuminate, 2-6-flowered, brunneo-rufescent, 

 8-10 mm. long. Empty glumes 3, oblong-ovate ; flowering ones ovato- 

 lanceolate. 8ett^ 6-5, finely capillary, delicately retrorsely piloso-scabrous, 

 3-3i times as long as the mature acliene. IStamens 3 ; filament as long 

 as set£e. Achene oval-obovate, biconvex, transversely rugiilose, 14 mm. 

 long, ferruginous ; rostrum acuminately conical, scarcely equal to the achene 

 in length, the base slightly abruptly dilated ; style deeply bifid, the branches 

 long, filiform, longer or much so than the main portion. 



Hah. Prov. Iwashiuo : Yama-gori {J. Matsumura ! herb. 8c. Coll. Im]). 

 Univ. Tokyo, Aug. 11, 1879); Prov. Mqtsu : Kuniyoshi-mura {T. Iwakaiva ! 

 herb. ibid. July 30, 1880), Okitate-mura in Higashi-tsugaru-gori (H. Sakurai\ 

 herb. Imp. Househ. Mus. Aug. 1885), Hyaknzawa (//. Sakurail herb. Imp. 

 Househ. Mus. Aug. 1885); Prov. Shinano : Togakushi {H. Sakurail herb. 

 Imp. Househ. Mus. Aug. 6, 1892), Nigori-zawa in Togakushi (Herb. ! Imj). 

 Househ. Mus. Aug. 10, 1885); Prov. Mikawa : Takashi-hara {H. Sahara i\ 

 herb. Imp. Househ. Mus. July 1903) ; Prov. Ise : Mt. Tarusaka in Miye- 

 gori {K. L,iai\ June 7, 1903). 



Rynchospora (Dichostyleai) Yasudana ]\Iakino, sp. n.A-. 

 (PI. VII. fig. 10.) 



Crespitose, estoloniferous, attaining 33 cm. in height ; rhizome ascending, 

 covered with scaly leaves. Culm erect, very gracile, setaceo-fililorm, slightly 



