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subulate acute and concave scales ; roots fibrous, elongate, filiform, loose or 

 fasciculate, villose with white spreading hairs. Stem erect, usually simple, 

 or sometimes with a branch, straight or more or less irregularly curved, 

 often with very distantly placed a few adpressed concave subulate or ovato- 

 subulate scales about 3 mm. long, terete and subangulate, 2-1^ mm. across. 

 Raceme terminal, simple, laxly and alternato-subsecundly about 3-8-flowered, 

 male above and female below, 1-3| cm. long: rachis straight or reflexed,. 

 gracile ; bract subten<ling the pedicel, erect-patent, sessile, ovato-subnlate to 

 oval, acute, entire or nearly so, very concave, membranaceous, shorter or 

 longer than the pedicel, shortly projected at the base in the lower ones, 

 1^-3^ mm. long. Flowers (male and female) about 7 mm. across ; pedicel 

 erect or ascending, gracile, straight or substraight, i-S mm. long. Perianth 

 patent, deeply 6-parted, sometimes abnormally 4-parted in the superior one, 

 thin, glabrous, densely celluloso-subbullate, persistent ; lobes narrowly subulate, 

 gradually filiform towards the naked apex, entire, 1-nerved, about 3-3| mm. 

 long, |-| mm. broad at the base. Stamens 3, sliort ; filaments thick, 

 minutely papillose, connate below, the free portion very short and lobe-form ; 

 anther oppo-ite to perianth-lobes, terminal, sessile, slightly depressed, trans- 

 versely elli[)tical or oval-elliptical, l-celh-d, extrorse, dehiscing transversely, 

 about ^ mm. long; pistillode none. Ovaries numerous, densely aggregated 

 into a sessile globose head shorter than the perianth and about l§-2 mm. 

 across, sessile on the elevated globular receptacle, obliquely obovoid, minutely 

 granulated, about ^ mm. long ; ovule solitary, obovoid, erect; style ventral, 

 inserted to the infra-medium, slightly exceeding the ovary, clavellato- 

 filiform, celluloso-bullate, about | mm. long ; stigma simple, obtuse, spiculo- 

 scabrous. Carpels numerous, conglomerate into a globose sessile head about 

 3-4 mm. across, accompanied by the persistent perianth below and also by 

 persistent style which much shorter than carpels, obovoid, attenuated towards 

 the base, rounded at the top, sessile on the elevated central receptacle, 

 minutely papilloso-verruculose above, 1-seeded, about 1^ mm. long ; pericarp 

 thin, densely cellulose, dehiscing vertically towards the top. Seed oblong- 

 obovoid, rounded at the top, erect, minutely striate vertically under lens, 

 ferruginous, about 1 mm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Uyematsu-so, ToklMsa-so (nov.). 



Hah. Prov. Tosa : Chigaido-yama in Kami-yasu, Yasu-mura, Kami- 

 gori (Yoshima ToJcihisal July 26, 1905; Yeijiro Uyematsu\ Sept. 10, 

 1905). 



This species seems to me to stand near by Sciaphila secundijlora 

 Thwaites, a Ceylon plant. It is the second species of this family found 



