Plantse Japonenses nova) vel minus cognitae, 



(Continued from vol. XII. p. 120.) 

 By 



T. Makino, 



Assistant of Botany in tlie Science College, 

 Imperial University, Tokyo. 



Asplemum abbreviation Mafeino sp. nov. 



Small Fern. Caudex shorty densely rooting. Stipes tufted, rather 

 numerous, densely clothed the scales towards the base, naked above, 

 greenish, 1J-10 cm long ; scales black, linear, long and finely acuminate, 

 with very fine and minute areolae. Frond longer than the stipe, oblong- 

 lanceolate, acutely obtuse or often abruptly obtuse, tripinnatifid, thick, 

 subcoriaeeous, glabrous, upper surface shining in living specimens ; rachis 

 compressed, slender, glabrous, green : pinnae patent, 10-13 in number on 

 each side of the rachis, moderately apart from one another, abbreviate, 

 deltoid, truncate-cuneate at the base, abrupted at the apex, shortly petioled, 

 deeply pinnatifid into several pinnules, 1-2 \ cm long, J-l§ cm broad ; 

 pinnules erect-patent, lower ones cuneate-ovate and deeply pinnatifid into a 

 few segments acutely dentate above, upper ones oblong-cuneate, subtrnncate 

 and acutely paucidentate at the apex : veinlets simple or 2-forked. Sori 

 1-7 in number in each pinnule, oblong-linear, straight, covering nearly the 

 whole under surfaces of the pinnules when mature ; indusium membranaceous, 

 with irregularly subcrenulate margin. 



Nom. Jap. Tohhva-toranoo. 



Hab. Prov. Suruga : Tabi-mura (Z. Matsumura ! herb. Sc. Coll. 

 Imp. Univ. Tokyo, March 31, 1884) ; Prov. Awa in Shikoku : Shiro-yama 

 (R. Yatabel herb. I.e. July 19, 1888): Prov. Tosa: Sakawa (!T. Mateno ! 

 1884, July 16, 1887), Kochi {T. Makino ! 1889, 1892). 



Closely allied to A. pekinense Hance. but with shorter, more abbreviate, 

 and thicker pinna 3 . 



