54 T1IK BOTANIt AL MAQAQINR [V oi. xxi. No. 24s. 



fasciculatis, flexuosis aseendento-patulis, ad nodnm infimum 

 usque ad 5cm. longis in parte inferiori nndis, superne breviter 

 ramulosis et remote spiculiferis. Spieulae ad apices ramulorum 

 paniculse ct laterales saepissime teniae, una sessili ceterae 

 stipitatae, stipitibus insequalibus mollis, floribus omnibus herma- 

 phroditis. Glumae 4-, 2-exteriores vacuae, tenuiter membrana- 

 cea, oblongae, extus longe barbatae, apice obtusae ciliatas ; gl. I. 

 3mm. longa 2mm. lata, 8— nervis; gl. II. 3mm. longa v. longior 

 S-nervis, nervis inconspicuis ; gl. III. l^alina minor 3 mm. 

 longa v.brevior, 2-nervis, paleam saepeque in spicula sessili floremj 

 fovens; gl. IV. hyalina, apice 2— fida 2 mm. longa, arista intra 

 lobos 8 mm. longa geniculata, palea tenuissima flore ^L v. 

 abortu $ . Stamina 3. Styli distincti, stigmatibus phimosis. 



Hab. Tainan leg. G. Nakahara, Oct. anno 1905. 



This species resembles 5. depauperatus, but differs from it by 

 the shorter spikelet and long ciliated glume. The arrangement 

 of flowers in the spikelet is rather variable in the species. In 

 the sessile spikelet, gl. I. and II. are always empty, gl. III. has 

 a male flower, and gl. IV. has a perfect flower. This arrange- 

 ment of flowers is generally kept in the .sessile as well as pedi- 

 celled spikelet. But sometimes, in a pedicelled spikelet, the 

 perfect flower is reduced to a female one or more often to no 

 flower at all. 



Spodiopogon Kawakamii Hayata, sp. nov. Culmi elati, 

 erecti, lj-tn. alti, validi, 5mm. in diametro aequantes, subcom- 

 pressi, in partibus infcrioribus unilateraliter sulcati. Folia latius- 

 cula plana, vaginis glabris membranaceis ad internodium 

 applicatis, 20-30 cm. longis, oribus extime ciliatis callosis, ligulis 

 brevibus, glabris, 4mm. longis, laminis angustis lanceolatis 

 acutis 50cm. longis 1.7cm. latis, supra glabris subtus hirsutis 

 ri pice acutissimis basi longe attenuatis et petiolum bialatum 

 usque ad LOcm. longum attenuatis, nervis utraque latere 6—7. 

 Panicula oblonga, 23cm. longa, 5cm. lata, longe pedunculata, 

 ram is ad nodofi multo fasciculatis flexuosis ascendento-patulis, ad 

 aodum infimum usque ad 10 cm. longis, in parte inferiorc nudis 



