60 UKTICACE^E. 



apice obtusis margine apiceque setulosis intus glabris cxtus dorso versus apicem 

 plus minus sotulosis deorsum glabris interdum valde angustatis li near i-filifor mi- 

 bus. Capitula unisexualia ; receptaculum subplanum glabrum ; flores pediccllati, 

 pedicellis glabris mm. longis mm. crassis crassiusculis. Fl. minutissiuii 

 mm. in diametro : segmenta 3 triangularia vel linearia eirc. mm. longa 

 versus apiceni rubro-punctata ; staminodia 3 segnientis perianthii opposita 

 -^ mm. longa | mm. lata linearia verniiformia Jl-forme recur va infra 

 achsenium iiisita. Achsenium ovoideo-ellipsoideum mm. longum f mm. latum 

 apice obtusum ad summum stigniate penicillato niinuto coroiiatum basi 

 acutum stipite minute % mm. longo obconico stipitatuni sublseve vel minute 

 tuberculaturn. haud echinatum haud uiuricatum. Semina ovoideo-ellipsoidea ; 

 testa membranacea ; albumen nullum ; embryo amplus haud vel vix compla- 

 natus elliptico-obovoideus ; radicula supra conifornii basi gradatim ad cotyledones 

 abeuns cotyledones in longitudine f-plo aequans ; cotyledones crassse oblongse. 



HAB. Mt. Arisaii, leg. B. HAYATA, Jan. 1912. From the position of the 

 seed and embryo, it is justly considered that the ovules are erect and ortho- 

 tropous. Near Elatostema sessile, but differs from it by the smaller leaves. 



Elatostema minutum HAYATA (Fig. 7) Fl. Mont. Formos. p. 198 t. 36. 

 Descriptio aucta : Fl. J : cymosi, cymis axillaribus solitariis glabris capituli- 

 formibus breve pedunculatis, pedunculis 1 mm. longis basi minute bracteatis ; 

 cymis 6-floratis rarius 10-floratis bracteis et bracteolis involucratis, bracteis 

 ordinis I. late rotundatis 2 mm. longis totiusque latis apice rotundatis infra 

 apicem dorso brevissime cornuto-apiculatis margine minute ciliolatis utraque 

 pagine glabris valde concavis ; bracteis ordinis II. oblongo-iiaviculiformibus 

 2mm. longis explicate totiusque latis 

 apice 2 lobatis vel rotundatis dorso apice 

 hirsutis margine apice ciliolatis deorsum 

 haud ciliolatis intus glaberrimis, bracteis 

 ordinis III. (vel bracteolis) obovato-cuneatis 

 2 mm. longis 1 mm. latis apice rotundatis ^ jj 



latissimis leviter 2-lobatis apice margine 



Fig. 7, Elalostema minutum HAYATA ; 



ciliolatis cseteruni haud ciliolatis ; podicellis a diagram of a male inflorescence, 

 florum 1 mm. longis glabris haud bracteatis. Perianthii lobi 5, lobis obovato- 



