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pie laxe plumosis. Caryopsis breviter oblonga, glabra, a palea 
ibera. 
manner in which the fruiting inflorescence with its subtending 
leaf breaks off from the stem or peduncle has not, as far as I am aware, 
been observed in any other grass. The genus is otherwise, as ob- 
served by Nees, allied to Sesleria. Drege’s specimens are all past 
flower, so that the stamens are unknown.—G. BrenTHAM. 
Fig. 1. Spikelet. 2,3, 4,5. Glumes. 6. Palea. 7. Pistil. 8. Caryopsis. 
PuatTe 1364. 
YOANIA JAPONICA, Mazin. 
Orcuipea, Tribe Nrorriex (Avethusee). 
Y. japonica, Mawim. in Bull. Acad. Sc. Petersb., xviii. 68; Mel. 
Biol., viii. 647. 
B. Japan, in Alpine woods in middle Nippon, whence Maxi- 
a received three specimens from his collector, Tschonoski, in 
864, 
‘Caulis crassus, decolor, erectus, spithameus v. pedalis, aphyllus, 
_ parte subterranea ramosus, sparse squamatus, villosus, parte epigza 
glaber, basi crebre sursum remote vaginis concavis ovatis mem- 
medio i ulum breve excavatum, e 
» pl ; stigma transversum, profunde excavatum, 
rostello obsoleto; clinandrii Jobus medius triangulari-ovatus, laterales 
 semiovati, in alas columnam marginantes abeuntes. An lobo 
e 
medio adnata, persistens, longe rostrata ; loculorum facies a margin 
solute; pollinia 4, oblonga, pulposa, sectilia, per bina eaudiculis 
(stipitibus rostelli P) arachnoideo-viscidulis glandulee affixa, que quasi 
semilunaris margini superiori stigmatis inserta.—(Abridged from 
Mawimowicz). 
Of this curious plant, more nearly allied to Epipogon than to any 
other, I have seen no specimen. The accompanying plate is copied 
from a drawing obligingly sent to us by Dr. Maximowicz, taken from 
the above-mentioned specimens. He has also sent a copy of a sketch, 
