104 THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. rvoi. xxiv.no. 2*0. 



Perennial, erect, attaining about 25cm. in height including 

 the fructiferous raceme, pubescent (not dense). Leaves long- (but 

 the superior short-) petiolate, ovate to ovato-lanceolate, obtuse 

 or subacute at the apex, truncato-subcuneate at the base, sub- 

 lobate and inciso-serrate, penninerved, attaining abont 3 Jem. 

 long, 2Jcm, wide. Raceme (fructiferous) elongate, attaining 

 about 13cm. long; rachis slender, sublaxly fructiferous; bracts 

 linear-lanceolate, \— \ as long as the pedicels, but the basal ones 

 leafy and confused with the cauline normal leaves ; pedicels gracile, 

 directed upwards and 8— 13mm. long in fruit. Calyx-segments 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, ciliated, about 4-5mm. long. Capsule 

 exserted upon the persistent calyx, ellipsoid-obcordate with a 

 deep sinus, compressed, turgidulous, about 6mm. long. Seeds 

 orbicular, hardly acute at the base, subrepand on margin, much 

 compressed, subplano-convex, fulvo-umber. 



Nom. Jap. Bandai-kuwagata (nov.). 



Hah. Prov. Iwashiro : Mt. Bandai (J. Matsumura ! herb. 

 Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Aug. 3, 1879). 



This variety differs from the type by having the erect stem, 

 much elongated raceme, and shallowly dissected leaves. 



Phyllospadix japonicus JVIakino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, 

 XI. (1897), p. 137, et XIII. (1899), p. 269; Matsumura, Ind. PL 

 Jap. II. 1 (1905), p. 24. 



Pyllospadix serrulatus ? Yabe in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XVII. 

 (1903), p. 124 ; Matsum. 1. c, non Rupr. 



A submersed marine perennial, densely tufted. Rhizome 

 short, thick, repent, ramose, close, hard, articulated with very 

 short internodes, firmely fixed on rocks with short strong roots, 

 coverded with the remains of brownish-black or blackish-brown 

 fibres of old leaves. Leaves (Fig. X. young ones, mag.) sheath- 

 ing at the base, much elongate, angustato-linear, tenaceously 

 coriaceo-membranaceous, flat, glabrous, smooth, green but nigres- 

 cent when dried, obtuse or retuso-emarginate at the apex, entire 

 but minutely serrulated with transparent spinulose teeth to- 

 wards the apex, about 3— 9Jdecim. in length, about l-2Jmm. 

 broad ; nerves 3, lateral 2 intramarginal and not conspicuous, 



