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and very thinly pubescent, tumid at the nodes. Leaves opposite, 



lanceolate, or broadly lanceolate, petiolecl, narrowly acuminate, attenuated 

 at the base, very obscurely repand and very thinly ciliated, thin, her- 

 baceous, deep green, very thinly pubescent, dispersed with very minute 

 white dots above, well developed ones about 4 cm or sometimes 6J cm 

 wide and 21 cm long including the petiole. Spike rather long ; rachis 

 slender, filiform, villose-pubescent. Flowers 5-5J mm long, horizontally 



spreading, strongly deiiexed in a later stage to be nearly parallel to the 

 rachis, very shortly pedicellate ; bracts ovate, rather gradually tapering into 

 the cuspidate-acuminate apex, scarious membranaceous, glabrous, slightly 

 ciliated, one-nerved, about 2-21 mm long; 2 bracteoles hardened and 

 spinescent, nearly equal in length, shorter than the sepals, 3 J mm long, 

 glabrous, minutely 2-auricled at the base, the lobe ovate, membranaceous, 

 enerved, glabrous but ciliated at the margin. Sepals 5, greenish, unequal 

 in length, subulate-lanceolate, tapering towards the apex, glabrous but 

 scarcely ciliated, 3-nerved, the midvein strong and the lateral ones obscure. 

 Stamens 5, much shorter than the sepals and included within them, connate 

 into a cup at the base ; staminodes square, suberose in front ; anther 

 ovate-elliptical; filament filiform. Ovary obo void-globose ; style erect, 

 straight, filiform, slightly longer than the ovary; stigma hairy. Utricle 

 elliptical, a little longer than the persistent style. 



Nom. Jap. Yanagi-inol:odzuchi (T. Makino). 



llab. Prov. Tosa in Shikoku : Godai-san (T. Makino ! Sept. 29, 1892); 

 Prov, Musashi: Adzusawa (T. Mafdnol Septem. 1894), Dokwan-yama near 

 Tokyo (T. Makino ! June 19, 1898). 



This variety is much less common than A. bidentata var. japonica 

 Miq., a commonest Japanese weed, in this country. Its elongate and 

 diffusely divaricate branches and Willow-like leaves are the characteristics of 

 my plant. 



(To he continued.) 



