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Kong-tsen-chau (&U$i), Oct., (no. 539); Ya-feng (&jg), 

 Mai., (no. 1316). 



Nom. Jap. Fushige-chigaya. 



414. Ischaemuin Hondae n. sp. 



Culm erect ? , branching below, simple above, about 7 dm. 

 high ; sheath loose, pilose with long patent hairs, ligule 2 mm. 

 long, ovate, obtuse, somewhat reddish, lamina about 15 cm. 

 long, 7 or 8 mm. broad, acuminate, adpressedly pilose above 

 and underneath, sub-7-nerved, the median one conspicuous, the 

 margin scabrous ; spike 5 cm. long, articulate, spikelets of two 

 kinds, the sessile and pedicellate ; pedicels 4 mm. long, articuli 

 a little over 4 mm., the exterior angle of both pedicels and 

 articuli albociliate, the interior and anterior angle smooth ; 

 sesssile spikelet including callus (1.5 mm) 8 mm. long, glume I. 

 subacute, bidentate, elevatedly sub-5-striate upwards, smooth 

 towards the base, 2-carinate, carina narrowly winged, scabrous, 

 II. glume equaling I., carinate, narrowly winged, scabrous ; III. 

 acuminate, glabrous ; IV. aristate with arista attaining more 

 than 1 cm. ; grain oblong, 2.5 mm. long ; pedicellate spikelet 

 5.5-6 mm. long, glume I. carinate, carina winged, scabrous ; 

 arista obsolete in IV. gl. 



This sp. is very similar to I. Sieboldi Miq. in general aspects, 

 but diners from it in the exterior angle of the pedicel ciliated, 

 and in the IV. glume of the sessile spikelet long aristated. In 

 I. Sieboldi, the anterior and exterior angles of pedicel are ser- 

 rulato-scabrous, the interior albo-ciliate ; the arista of IV. gl. 

 of the sessile spikelet obsolete or inconspicuous. In the present 

 sp. the articulus is subequal to the pedicel or very slightly longer 

 than it, but in /. Sieboldi the articulus is a little shorter than 

 the pedicel. 



Tai-pin-mun (^3^), Nov., (no. 367); Tsu-yun-dong (^g 

 M), Sept., (no. 437); Swi-shing-kaw (7KMH), Oct, (no. 93); 

 Ya-feng (-gfjj£), Oct., (nos. 430, 479); Chi-ling (££), Nov., 

 (no. 111). 



415. Miscanthus japonicus Anders. ; Hack. Monogr. Androp. 

 107, et in Herb. Boiss. VII. 639; Pilger in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 

 XXIX. 221 ; Rendle .1. c. 347. 



