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Frond often narrower, crenate or sinuato-crenate ; crenatures 

 obtuse, patent or erect-patent, entire or crenulated ; midrib 

 often nigrescent ; veins erect-patent. Sori as in the type, or 

 on both sides of veins, or towards the margin and the top of 

 venules. Otherwise as in the type. 



Nom. Jap. Nokogiri-herashida. 



Hab. LIUKIU (Yasusada Tashiro !) ; Prov. TOSA (Z. 

 Kumon !). 



Kochia littorea Makino, nom. nov. 



Kochia scoparia var. littorea Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, 

 XXIII. (1909), p. 12. 

 Nom. Jap. Iso-hbkigi. 

 Hab. JAPAN. 



Miscanthus sinensis Anderss. in Oefvers. Vet. Akad. 

 vStockh. (1857), p. 166. 



var. condensatus (Hackel) Makino. 



Miscanthus condensatus Hackee in Bull. Herb. Boiss. VII. 

 (1899), p. 639. 



Miscanthus chrysander Maxim, in litt. 



Nom. Jap. Hachidyb-susuki. 



Hab. JAPAN : Pacific coast and islands. 



Growing far away from the coast this plant is passing 

 gradually to the type species. 



Deutzia gracilis Sieb. etZucc. Fl. Jap. I. p. 22, tab. 8. 



var. Nagurai Makino, var. nov. 



Flowers minute, about 4 mm. across. Calyx-segments 5, 

 patulous, deltoid, obtuse or acutish, entire, few-nerved, with a 

 stronger midrib, glabrous but slightly puberulent above, ljmm. 

 long, green. Petals 5, patulous, oval, oval-ovate, or oval- 

 elliptical, obtuse, entire, very minutely puberulent externally, 

 2-2^ mm. long, 1^-2 mm. wide, greenish. Stamens 10, very 

 .short, the oppositisepalous ones somewhat longer ; filament 



