MATEEIALS FOE A FLOEA OF FOEMOSA. 385 



Carex Kawakamii Hayata sp. nov. Culmi ascendentes 7 cm. 

 longi acuto-trigoni sub-alati ad angiilos scabrinscali basi foliati. 

 Folia tenuia crecto-recurvata sursum patentia 8-9 cm. longa 

 ciilmos snperantia 2-2J mm. lata utraqne pagine et ad costas mar- 

 ginomque glabra subtiis distincte costata apice acuminata basi 

 vaginiformia (vaginis donium explicatis 2 cm. longis prope marginem 

 hyalinis). Spicœ pauci-floratae 3-4 alternatim dispositae, termi- 

 nales J, reliquse Ç, sub quoque spica unibracteatse, bracteis in- 

 ferioribns longioribus spicas 3-4-plo superantibus, spicis brevissime 

 pedunculatis. Spicae J : cylindricse 1 cm. longse 1 mm. latse 

 paucifloratao ; squamis oblongis 5 mm. longis 2 mm. latis apice 

 acutis minutissime hirtellis a basi contractis ad insertionem 

 1 mm. latis clorso costatis. Spicse Ç spicis J latiores pauci- 

 floratae, squamis dimidium squamas J sequantibus cuspidato-ovatis 

 2J mm. longis I4 mm. latis dorso costatis costis apice in cuspidem 

 productis glabris. Utri cuius valde exsertus squamas circ. 2-plo in 

 longitudine aequans ovoideo-fusiformis 5 mm. longus If mm. latus 

 sub-trigonus antice elevato-convexus postice subplanus apice 

 rostratus basi acutus apice 2-dentatus glaber non punctatus a 

 latere tenuiter costatus inter costas 2-nervatus. Achsenium obo- 

 voideum If mm. longum 1 mm. latum vel latins apice rotundatum 

 basi acutum subtrigonum, (angulis obtusis), flavo-rubesccns ; stylus 

 basi oblique erectus baud incrassatus supra medium 3-fidus, 

 ramis reflexis hirtellatis. 



Hab. in monte Morrison, (No. 2385). 



Near C. pseudo-japonica Hayata, but difTers from it in having 

 nearly erect styles and not punctate utricles. 



Carex ligata Boott var y formosensis (Lev. et A^vx.) Kükenth. 

 in Engl. PJl.-reicli IV. -20, Gyp.-Caricoid. p. 474. 



