veinlets delicate and loosely anastomosing; reduced leaves minute, squarai- 

 form, 4-9 or SDmetimes 12, very loosely disposed on the stem between the 

 leaves and raceme, adpressed or erect-patent, or spreading, subulate or 

 linear-subulate, long-acuminate, viriilescent, tliin, glabrous, 1-nerved, li-5mm. 

 long. Raceme erect, loosely 6-21 -flowered ; racliis fiiitbrm, straight, or 

 subfiexuous above, 2t^-7 cm. long ; bracts {Fig. II. 1-2.) erect -patent, 

 adpressed to dnd apparently shorter than the pedicel, subulate, acuminate, 

 1-3 mm. long. Flowers small, viridi-scent with no trace of purple ; pedicels 

 erect-patent, gracile, puberulent ^r glabrous, 2-5 mm. loi g. Perianth erect- 

 patent or recurvo-patent, equal in length, thinly membranaceous, 1-nerved, 

 reflexed on margin, 2-2 1 mm. long. Sepals: the superior one [Fig. II. 3.) 

 oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or acutish-obtuse ; lateral ones {Fig. IL 4.) similar 

 but slightly oblique iu form. Petals {Fig. II. 6.) linear, very obtuse. 

 Labellum {Fig. II. 6-7.) 2-2i-times the length of the perianth, narrowly 

 obovato-cuneate, gradually attenuated below and without basal teeth, obcor- 

 date with oval or oval-ovate lobes (rounded at the apex and entire or 

 obscurely crenulate on margin) and a closed sinus above, rarely obcordato- 

 cuneate {Fig. II. 8.) with an open sinus and divergent oval lobes, often 

 pointed with a minute depressed-deltoid or depressed-rounded projection in its 

 bottom between lobes, 5-6^ mm. long, 2-4 mm. wide in the upper broad 

 portion, the median nerve thicker ; veins which run into the lobes branched. 

 Column l§-2 mm. long, straight ; clinandrium deeply concave, the dorsal 

 edge obscurely crenulate ; anther elliptical-ovate ; rostellum broadly deltoid- 

 ovate ; stigma rounded. Ovary oblong or obconico-oblong, glabrous, 

 2-2| ram. long. 



Nora. Jap. Ao-futaharan (T. Makino), Futaha-ran. 



Hah. Prov. Tosa : Mt. Yokogura {T. 3Iakino\ Aug. 28, 1887), 

 Nauokawa {K. Watanabe ! herb. He. Coll. Irap. Univ. Tokyo, Aug. 15, 1889) ; 

 Prov. Hitachi : Mt. Tsukuba {C. Oicatari ! herb. ibid. July 25, 1895) ; 

 Prov. Shimotsuke : Nikko (//. Takedal Aug. 11, 1900; T. 3Iakino\ June 

 1901, and Aug. 1903), Nikko ? (Herb.! ibid. July 15, 1879); Prov. Iyo : 

 Nametofe* (Z. Umemura\ July 189G) ; Prov. Iwashiro: Kaneda iu Aidzu 

 {G. Nalcahara ! July 1903). 



Listera Yatabei ]\lakino sp. nov. 



Whole })lant 1G-I9cn). in height. Rhizome subterranean, creepin 

 filiform ; roots filiform, with root-hairs. Stem enct, slender, glabrous 

 below the leaves but above them pubescent with patent short glandular 



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