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small flowers and foliaceous stems. It was collected in Etorofu by Dr. K. Jimbo, 

 now the Professor of IMineralogy in the Imperial University of Tokyo, while he 

 was engaged in the geological sm-vey of Hokkaido in 1891. The plant is named 

 in honor of the collector. 



5. Luzula Kjellmanniana Miyabe et Kudo. nam. nov. 



L. arcuata Wahlenb. f. hififoUa Kjellm. Wiss. Ergebn. der Vega Exped. 

 (1883) p. 374 ; Kurtz, in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 19 (1895) p. 476.— i. confma Lindeb. 

 var. latifdia Fr. Bnch. Mouogr. Juncac. (1890) p. 125. — L. arctica Blytt, var. 

 latifdia Nilssou, in Fr. Buch. Juncac. (1906) p. 69. 



Kootstock short, tufted ; stolons Stems erect, ratlier stout, straight, 



12-20 cm high, foliaceous. Radical leaves shorter than the stem, 4-16 cm long, 2- 

 3.5 mm In-oad, flat, linear, canaliculate and tapering toward the calloso-obtuse apex, 

 often curved, gi-een or rufescent, long-ciliate at the basal portion ; cauline leaves 

 2-3, the uppermost leaf longer than the inflorescence, 5-9 mm long, 4-6 mm broad, 

 green or rufescent, flat, canaliculate towai-d the calloso-obtuse apex, long-ciliate 

 sparingly at the margin and densely at the junction with the sheath. Inflorescence 

 terminal, erect, congested, composed of 2 to 6 small many-flowered heads ; lower 

 bract foliaceous, often longer than the inflorescence ; the others hypsophyUous. 

 Floral bracts and prophylla all)o-meml)ranaceous, hght chestnut -colored in the 

 middle ix)rtion, lacerate, fimbriate. Flowers 3 mm long, chestnut-colored ; perianth- 

 segments all alike in size and shape, lanceolate, acuminate, crenulately denticulate 

 towards the apex. Stamens of about half the length of the inner segments, 

 anthers nearly as long as the filaments. Seeds obovatc, provided with slender 

 fibres at the base. 



NoM. JAP. CMshima-sitznmenoIdye. 



Hab. Northern Kuriles. Shimushu : Kataoka-Bay (Capt. Gimji ! '' 1897 ; K. 

 Yendo!^' July 20, 25, 1903).— Paramushir : Ottomai (C. Tarao!'' Aug. 25, 1892). 

 — Kashuwa (I. Kodama !« July, 1893).— Shimushir (J. Tochinai ?^ June 19, 1900). 

 — Urup : Yoshinohama (K. Uchida !^^ Jmie 18, 1891). 



DiSTEiB. East Siberia, Behring-Sea regions and Northern Kmiles. 



The present s^jecies was collected for the first time during the Vega-Expedi- 

 tion, and ti-eated as a form of Lusida arcuata by Kjellmann. Afterward, Buche- 

 nau considered it as a variety of Luzula confusa, but at the same time he expressed 

 a doubt, thinking that it might lie a hybrid between Läiziäa arctica and confusa. 



