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ones, cordate or cuneate at the base, ovate to ovato-lanceolate or 

 lanceolate; extreme segments ovate, obtuse or acute at the apex, 

 irregularly inciso-serrulate or denticulate, flabellate- veined ; veins 

 slightly visible. Fertile frond long-stiped, much exserted, attaining 

 about 35 cm. long; stij^e terete, erect from the lower portion of the 

 stipe of the sterile frond. 



Nom. Jap. Alca-lvmav;arahi (nov.). 



Hob. Prov. MUSASHI: Negishi in Hizaori-mura (T. Making! 

 Jan. 12, 1915). 



This species is very closely allied to Botrychium japonicum 

 Underw.(=^. daucifolnnn ß. japonicuyn Prantl, Beitr. z. Syst. der 

 Ophioglos. p. 340), differing from the latter, however, by having the 

 wholly latericious-coloured frond, more conspicuous and closer veins, 

 narrower and more tapering extreme segments, longer-petiolulate 

 and broader lower pinnules, and shorter and closer serration; both 

 species grow in the same place. 



Athyrium niponicum (Mett.) Hange m Journ. Linn. Soc. XIII. 

 p. 92 (1873). 



var. cristato-flabellatum Makino, nov. var. 



Apex of pinnse and of the frond flabellately divided into a few 

 to several narrow serrated lobes; lobes iisually again flabellato-cris- 

 tate at the apex. 



Nom. Jap. A'ingyo-inuwrtrabl (nov.). 



Hah. Prov. MUSASHI: Komaba, cultivated (T. Makino ! June 

 5, 1899). 



Yittaria sessilis (Eaton) Making, nov. comb. 

 Vittaria japonica var. sessilü Eaton ex Yoshinaga in Bot. Älag., 

 Tokyo, IV. (1890), p. 94. 



Vittaria Fudinoi Making in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, VI. (1892), p. 47, 

 XII. (1898), p. 28, et Phanerog. et Pterid. Jap. Ic. 111. I. (1901), 

 tab. 59-60. 



Nom. Jap. Nalmni-slmliiran (meaning a middle-soriferous Vit- 

 taria). 



Hah. JAPAN, southern. 



Sasa Tokugawana Making, nov. sp. 



About 1\ m. high. Culm erect, slender, loosely ramose towards 

 the top, terete, smooth, often purpurascent, fistulöse; nodes some- 

 what turged. Leaves 4-5 to a branch and palmately arranged 

 towards the end, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate at the aj)ex, rounded 

 subtruncato-roimded or subcordate and shortly petiolate at the base, 



