calyx-teeth, ovate corolla-lobes, and la to-rounded and subentire or dentate 

 plaits ; possibly a variety of the latter species. 



Aspidium (Polystichnm) lachenense Hook. Sp. Fil. IV. p. 8, tab. 

 212 ; Hook, et Baker Syn. Fil. p. 250 ; Clarke Rev. Fern. N. Ind. in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. 2nd. Ser. I. p. 506 ; Bar. et Christ in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. 

 Ital. N. Ser. IV. (1897) p. 10. 



Polystichum lachenense Bedd. Ferns Brit. Ind. tab. 32, et Handb. 

 Ferns Brit. Ind. p. 203 ; Diels in Engl, et Prantl Nat. Pfl.-Eam. 1. 4, p. 

 191, et Fl. Centr.-Chin. in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. p. 192. 



A small fern, attaining 18 cm. in height. Ehizome short, oblique, 

 densely covered with castaneous ovate acuminate sub-dentate scales. Stipe 

 erect, very densely tufted forming a compact mass with numerous old ones 

 which are accompanied by a few or several marcescent rachises free from 

 fallen pinnae, 21-.5 cm. long, castaneous below, scaly. Frond longer than 

 the stipe, linear-lanceolate, simply pinnate, sub-coriaceous, 6-11 cm. long, 

 1^-2 cm. wide ; rachis slender, viridescent, apterous, disparsed with subulato- 

 linear pale-fulvous spinuloso-denticulate thin scales ; pinnae numerous, patent, 

 rather distant, sessile, green, disparsedly scaly beneath, more or less reduced 

 in size in lower ones, deltoid-ovate, rather obtuse with a subspinulose point, 

 slightly oblique and rounded-subtruncate at the base, attaining 10 mm. 

 long, 7 mm, broad, crenato-serrate with sub-spinulose point but sub-pin- 

 natifid below, the lowest lobe pauci-serrulate with sub-spinulose points ; midrib 

 subflexuous ; veins erect-patent, furcate, lower ones pinnate with simple 

 venules. Sori dorsal, 2-serial, 1-12 to a pinna, situated in the midway 

 between the midrib and margin but slightly nearer the midrib ; indusium 

 thinly membranaceous, pale, peltate, irregularly crenulato-subdentate. 



Nom. Jap, Tahane-shida (nov.). 



Hah. Prov, Shinano : Mt. Yatsugatake {H. Takeda ! July 27, 1903). 



Rare, New to the Flora of Japan, 



Disirih. Eastern Himalaya, and Central China. 



Cacalia palmata (Thunb.) Makino. 



Arnica palmata Thunb. Fl. Jap. (1784) p. 319 ; Willd. Sp. PI. III. 

 (1800) p. 2112 ; Pers. Syn. PI. II. (1807) p. 454; Spreng. Syst. Veg. III. 

 (1826) p. 567. 



