MATERIALS FOR A FLORA OF FORMOSA. 377 



tribnted in the tropical and temperate regions of Eastern Asia. Some 

 years ago, Mr. T. Kawakami sent me a specimen of a sedge which 

 is known as the best material for the Taikömushiro, and is called 

 by the name of Taikö-i (= Sedge of the Taikö-mat). Studying 

 the specimen, I saw that the plant is quite the same as a Japa- 

 nese sedge which is known to be identical with S. triqueter Linn., 

 although there are some small differences between them in point 

 of inflorescence. The differences are not, however, of such charac- 

 ters which botanically separate one from the other. While work- 

 ing here at Kew, I have compared the present sedge with 

 numeroQS specimens of the named species preserved here, and found 

 that there is a form of the species with which my plant is 

 exactly identical. I have, therefore, no further hesitation in referring 

 the present plant to S. triqueter Linn. It may be added, how- 

 ever, that the Formosan plant is not of the same form as the 

 Japanese, or as the type of the species, but is of a form peculiar 

 to itself and to a few specimens at Kew. 



Memirea Aubl. 



Remirea maritima Aubl. ; Bœck. in Linnaea XXXV. p. 435 ; C. 

 B. Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 677 ; Forbes et Hemsl. Ind. 

 Fi. Sin. III. p. 258 ; 



Hab. Formosa. 



DisTRiB. Kwangtung. On tropical sea-coasts tin'oughout the 

 world. 



Cladiutn P. Br. 



Cladium jamaicense Crantz.; Forbes et ITemsl. Ind. Fl. Sin. HI. 

 p. 202. 



Hab. Hakuliakusha, leg. T. Kawakami, 1900, Mai. (No. 1491). 



