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Vittaria (Ta3iiiopsis) Fudzinoi Makino, Notes on Japanese Plants, 

 XV. in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, VI. 1892, p. 47. 



Caudex creeping, emitting fibrous roots below, clothed with dark- 

 brown scales above and also towards the apical end ; scales linear-subulate, 

 long and slenderly acuminate, denticulate, membranaceous, yellowish at the 



. dark-brown nerves cancellate, forming the longitudinal areolae. Fronds 

 approximately scattered on the caudex above, very narrowly elongate and 

 linear, carnose, opaque, glabrous, I5-40cm long, 3-5mm wide and 2mm 

 at the thickest median part, gradually attenuated below into the round 

 stipes clothed with the scales at its base, narrowly acuminate above with 

 a blunt tip, the margins half involute with rounded outside and nearly 

 acute edge ; midrib prominent on the upper surface forming a longitudinal 

 groove on each side, broadly elevated on the under surface, the nbro-vascular 

 fascile central ; lateral veins simple, oblique, distant, immersed, connected 

 to the intramarginal longitudinal vein on each side. Sori slenderly linear, 

 long-continued, intramarginal, lying in the deep longitudinal groove formed 

 by the half involute margin and the adjoining oblique portion of the frond 

 on each side of the broad midrib. Sporangia elliptical, shortly pedicellate : 

 aimulus with thick partitions; spores oblong-subreniform, very dilute-yellow ; 

 sporangiasters many, turbinate, yellow, long pedicellate, longer than the 

 sporangia. 



Vittaria japonica var. sessilis Eaton ex Y. Yoshinaga in Bot. Mag., 

 Tokyo, IV. 1890, p. 94. 



Nom. Jap. Nakami-shishiran (K. Fudzino), Miyama-shishiran (Y. 

 Yoshinaga). 



Hah. Prov. Iyo in Shikoku : Oda-miyama near Kuma-machi (K. 

 Fudzino, May 24, 1884. herb. Imp. Mus.) ; Prov. Tosa in Shikoku : Mt. 

 Kurotaki-yama (F. Yoshiuagal Aug. 15, 1889, herb. T. Mahino, and herb 

 Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, T. Mahino ! Nov. 1892), Mt. Honokawa-yama 

 (7'. Mahino ! Aug. 1889), Yasui-mura (S. Yanol Aug. "12, 1890. herb. Sc. 

 Co]]. Imp. Univ. Tokyo). 



The present species, a singular and carnose Vittaria, greatly resembles 

 in general habit the proceeding one, but the veins are free. It is also 

 specifically distinct from V. japonica Miq. I named after Mr. Kimei 

 Fudzino, a former assistant of Imperial Museum, who first collected it in 

 May L884 iii his botanical excursion to Shikoku. 



{To be continued.) 



