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wliite, soft ; nodes remote, with a sheathing membranaceous scale at each 

 node. Leaves few, erect, sheathing towards the base (the sheath not 

 connate and thinly membranaceous), elongate, slender, triquetrous with 

 .smooth edges, acute at apex, smooth, green, 1^-5 mm across, shorter than 

 the stem. Stem solitary, erect, slender, very acutely triquetrous with 

 -smooth edges, smooth, green, aphyllous, the base enclosing by the lower 

 portion of leaves. Inflorescence pseudo-lateral, sessile, much shorter than 

 the bract, loosely and divaricately few-branched, 3-8-spiculose, simply raceme - 

 like or compound ; rachis short, geniculate, triquetrous, not scabrous, branches 

 often bin ate (the inferior one longer) to a joint of the rachis, unequal in 

 length, corai)resso-triquetrous, attaining 4cm. long, the superior ones shorter; 

 bracteoles subulate, carinate dorsally, mostly thin-membranaceous, the inner 

 one thick and gibbose at the base, the longest one attaining 22mm. in 

 length ; bract continued to the stem, erect, slender, acute, triquetrous, 

 not scabrous, green, about 10-19 cm. long. Spiculas ovato-cyhndrical or 

 cylindrico-fusiform, acutish on both ends, 10-16 mm. long, many-flowered, 

 bay-ferruginous, pedicellate and mixed with sessile ones ; rachilla glabrous. 

 Olumes imbricated, ovato-lanceolate, acute or obtuse or emarginate and 

 with a minute mucronate tip which is the ai)ical end of the midrib, 

 ciliolate on margin, membranaceous, fulvo-ferruginous, but green in the 

 midrib, nerveless on sides of the midrib, concave, ecarinate, 5^-6 mm. long. 

 Setee 4, twice or a little more as long as the caryopsis, somewhat unequal 

 in length, erect, setaceous, tapering, rigid, spreadingly spinuloso-pubescent, 

 fulvous. Stamens 2 ; filament filiform, exceeding the glume, glabrous ; 

 anther lato-linear, mucronate at apex, 2 mm. long. Style long, filiform, 

 exserted, deeply bifid; arms slightly shorter than the main portion, filiform, 

 obscurely puberulent. Caryopsis stramineous, lato-obovoid, shortly attenuat- 

 ed at the base, compressed with obtuse edges, smooth* 2mm. long, cuspidate- 

 ly beaked with the base of the style, the beak about i nmi. long. 



Nom. Jap. SJddzu-i (T. Makino). 



Hah. Prov. Iwaki : Takamatsu in Yawata-mura, Uta-gori (T, 3Iakino\ 

 Aug. 16, 1890); Prov. Shimoosa : Mama (T. Makino I August 1893). 



Rather rare. 



Symplocos paniculata (Thunb.) Wall. ' Catal. (1828) n. 4429.' 

 Prunus paniculata Thunb. Fl. Jap. (1784) p. 200. 

 Symplocos craicegoides Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 

 (1825) p. 145. 



