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iiiiilo.s anijilcctans glabra bicariniata, (carinis a marginc 3 nnn. distantiLus), a 

 lia.^^i usquc <v\ mcdiuui fissa aiiice liaud fissa. Vagiua ramuli (vcl perula) ad 

 liasiu ramuli foliiferi 2-3-seriatim sita, superrima (intima) basi ramidum tirmo 

 auqilectans elongato-elliptica 9-10 mm. longa 5 mm. lata utrac[ue pagiue glabra 

 :i]iice rotundata ad summum cuspidata, cuspide ^ mm. louga, intus nitida mar- 

 giue interdum ciliolata. Eamuli foliiferi graciles, nodiis prominentibus pul- 

 \ illis sujierioribus et inferioribus 1-2 mm. se distantibus, superioribus quam 

 iuferiore plus prominentibiLS, latere uno late sulcati vel subplani glabri. Folii 

 \ aginella 2o-30 cm. longa l-l^ cm. lata extus subglabra latere fisso imbricata 

 1 iliata, ore obliquo dense hirsuto ; setaj auriculares (vel pili aiuiculares) 6mm. 

 liiugiB scabraj utroque latere oris 5-10 disposittB ; ligula cylindrica 2 mm. louga 

 (irc denticidata extas hirsuta iutus glabra laterc uno fisso se imbricato ; folii 

 liimiua lanccolata 10-12 cm. longa 17 mm. lata apice acuminatissima basi 

 1 luieato-attenuata ad petiolum abeuns, margine latere imo aristato-denticulata, 

 ];itere uno haud denticulata integra, supra glabra, subtiis basi ad costas hirsuta ; 

 ucrvi secuudarii 5-6-parii, nervuli inter secundarios 9 ; tesselte 28 in 5 mm.; 

 deuticulis 7 iu 5mm.; petiolis 5 mm. longis IJ mm. latis glabris. 



Hats. Iu partibus mediis Formosa3 ubiq[uo culta. 



The prcsent plant is one of the most abundautly phiuted species of tlie 

 I'ambusace;e in the middle jiart of Formosa. The species was regarded for 

 some time past to be identical with PhijUoslachjs hamhusoides Sieb. et Zucc. 

 Thc first botanist who recorded om- plant under tlie same name from Formosa is 

 Iv lI.vcKEi.. In 1904, in his Suiiplementa Enumerationis Graminum", this emi- 

 iiiMit authority rei)orted " *P. hamhusoidcs SiEi!. et Zucc. iu Abli. Acad. Miiucli. 

 Jil. i>. 745, iu moutilnis prope Kebmg, F.vurie 765" witli a note "die mit * be- 

 ;j,leiclineten Arteu uud Yarietaten sind fur die Flora dcr betreffeudeu Liinder 

 11(11." In 1905, Professor M.vtsumura, referriug to Hackel's jiaper, meutioned 

 tlie occurrence of tlie species in Formosa iu liis Index Plautarum Japonicarum°'. 

 lyatcr on, in 1906, wheu I was working our Euumeratio Plantarum Formosa- 

 uarum'' in conjunction with the said professor, I e.xamiued one of the specimeus 



1) Hackei,, E. — Supplementa EnaraeratioiiLs Graminuni Japouia', Formosa?, Corea>, in Biill. 

 llorb. Bois. VI. (1904) p. 529. 



2) Matsumura, J. — In(Jex Plantariim Japonicarum II.-I, p. 92. 



■V) MATSuinTK.*, .1. et H.VYATA, B. — Eniimeratio Plantarum Formosanarum, p. 549. 



