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annular nodular lines, 10-18 mm. long. Stem simple, erect, terete, fleshy, 

 pale flavescent, minutely pnrple-striato-spotted, with 2-5 adpressed thin 

 remote sheaths. Raceme erect, shorter than the stem, laxly 1-7-flovvered ; 

 bracts ovate, very thin, longer than pedicels. Flowers rather large, with 

 a short curved twisted pedicel, patent-nutant, 2 cm. Sepals and petals 

 erect-patent, snbequal, narrow-ovate, acute, pale flavescent, with purple- 

 striato-spots, thin, margin not involute. Lahellum inferior, large, sub- 

 horizontal, deltoid, entire, thickish and fleshy, deeply concave, with a few 

 inconspicuous rows of minute papillte internally, pale, purple- maculate. 

 Spur descending, stout, inflated, oblong, somewhat compressed, obtuse, slightly 

 2-4-lobed, about as long as the labellum, pale flavescent, streaked and 

 speckled with purple towards the base. Anther carnose, 2-celled, sessile ; 

 polliiiia 2, filiform-pedicellate, obovate, compressed, yellow. Column rather 

 short, erect, enlarged above, compressed ; clinandrium deeply concave ; rostel- 

 lum short and broad ; gland conspicuous, semiorbicular, snowy white, creamy. 

 Stigma broad, slightly prominent, distant from the rostellum, placed to the 

 base of column. Ovary ovoid, not twisted, yellow, streaked with purple, 

 subpapillose, 



Nom. Jap. AoJci-ran (nov.). 



Hab. Prov. Shimotsuke : Nikk5, in shady forest at the eastern foot of 

 Mt. Nyoho (N. Aold, and M. Kurushima \ Sept. 28, 1904 ; M. Kuruskima 

 and B. IoJd\ Sept. 29, 1904; T. 31ahino and B. loJd \ Oct. 16, 1904). 



Very rare. As described above, this differs from Epipogum aphyllum 

 S\v., which is also found in Japan. It was discovered on the 23rd of 

 September of this year (1904), by Viscount Nobumitsu Aoki. 



"Woodsia (Eu-woodsia) Yazawai Makino sp. nov. 



A tittle fern, attaining about 7 cm. high. Caudex short, with delicate 

 black roots, forming a thick mass with many bases of the old stipes, clothed 

 with fulvou-3 scales ; scales thinly membranaceous, lato-ovate to lanceolate, 

 irregularly subdenticulate, attaining about 4 mm. long. Stipes tufted, erect, 

 much shorter than the frond, gracile, stramineous but rufous below, scaly 

 towards the base, articulated above the middle, |-2 cm. long. Frond angus- 

 tato-lanceolate, acuminate, slightly narrowed below, bipinnatiparted, 3-5| 

 cm. long, |-l^cm. wide, quite glabrous, green, thickish; pinnee 9-12 on 

 each side, alternate but opposite or subopposite in the lower ones, erect-patent 

 or nearly patent, remote, sessile or very shortly petioled, ovato-deltoid and 

 cuneate at the base and attenuated towards the apex and with an acutish- 



