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terminales baud bracteati, sed involucris crustaceis instruct!. Perianthium 



campanulatum 2-3 mm. longum 3-4 mm. latum crassiusculum coriaceum 



glabrum ; tubo l|-2 mm. longo obconico, lobis rotundato-triangularibus vel 



oblongo -triangulari- 



bus 2 mm. longls 



totiusque latis vel 



latioribus apice ex- 



teriore recurvis gla- 



bris ; antheris 3-4cum 



lobis perianthii op- 



positis et eos adnatis 



oblongis vel obloiigo- 



linearibus l-2 mm. 



longis facie multi- 



porosis ; rudimentum 



ovarii imllum. Fl. : 



sessiles vel brevissime 



stipitati ; ovarium 



viride inferum ob- 



conico-lineare 1-1 % 



mm. longum 1 mm. 



latuni glabrum ; peri- 



anthium 4-partitum, 



segmentis oblongo- 



triangularibus glabris / S~ \ I g 



incrassatis coriaceis 



apice obtusis basi 



articulatim solutis ; 



stamina nulla ; stylus 



globosus 1 mm. longus totiusque latus apice rotundatus stigmatosus. 



HAB. Musha : Tsutsujigaoka, ad 6000 ped. alt., ad Alnum 

 crescens, leg. B. HAYATA, Aprili. 23, 1916. 



Approaches to I^'scwm album LINN., but differs from it in the male flowers 



Pig. 3, Fiscwm Alni-formosance HAYATA. a, b, pairs of male 

 flowers ; c, a bract ; d, a male flower ; e, section of. the same ; f, 

 female flower-cluster; g, a flower of the same; h, the same, 

 perianth off; i, section of ovary. 



