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below ; pinnules numerous, patent, moderately closed, oblong, obtuse at the apex> 

 truncate at the base, very shortly petiolulate or sessile, pinnatisected or bipin- 

 natifid, but merely pinnatifid in superior ones, with fibrillose midveins, the 

 largest one -6 J cm long, 2 j cm wide; segments spreading, regularly arranged, 

 moderately closed, oblong, rounded or truncate-obtuse at the apex, mostly pauci- 

 crenate, or nearly entire, or pinnatifid when well developed, the largest one 

 13 mm long, 6 mm wide, costa more or less hairy ; veinlets erect-patent, loose, 

 all free, simple, or bifurcate, or pinnate with a few venules. Sori each dorsal 

 on a veinlet, generally 1-4 or sometimes 5-9 to a segment, in two rows midway 

 between margins and costa of segments, orbicular-reniform ; indusium orbicular- 

 reniform with a deep sinus, smaller than the heap of sporangia, thinly mem- 

 branaceous, light brown towards the centre, papilloso-ciliated on the margin. 



Aspidium Matsumurce Makino Notes on Jap. Plants, XV. in Bot. 

 Mag., Tokyo, VI. 1892, p. 46. 



Nom. Jap. Kiyosumi-himeiuarabi (Z. Matsumura). 



Hab. Prov. Awa (Boshu) : Mt. Kiyosumi-yama (Z. Matsumura ! herb. 

 Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, June 12, 1882 ; T. Makino ! April 1898) ; 

 Prov. Ku : Mt. Nachi-yama (M. Miijoshi ! herb. loc. cit. Aug. 18, 1887) ; 

 Prov. Tosa : Mt Yokogura-yama (T. Makino ! Aug. 28, 1887), Mt, Hono- 

 kawa-yama (T. Makinol Aug. 10, 1887), Tsubayama-mura (S, Yam ! 

 Aug. 1888), Nanokawa-mura (K. Watanabe ! Feb. 28, 1891). 



This mountaineous Fern is well marked by the dense spreading per- 

 sistent scales on the stipe and the main rachis. I have named this species 

 in honour of Prof. Z. Matsumura, 



Nephrodium (Lastrea) gymnosorum Makino sp. nov. 



Caudex short, thick, oblique. Stipes tufted, slender, hard, fulvous- 

 brown, shorter or longer than the frond, the longest one about 45 cm, densely 

 scaly at the base ; scales fuscous, subulate-linear, long acuminate, firm, 

 with longitudial and close areoke, the largest one about 13 mm long. Frond 

 ovate-deltoid or subdeltoid, acuminate, 28-40 cm long, 21-27 cm broad, 

 tripinnatificl, naked except the main and secondary rachises and the 

 midvein of the pinnules, thin, firmly herbaceous, fulvous-brown when 

 dry ; main rachis very thinly scattered with fulvous small scales ; pinnae 

 patent, about 7 on each side, opposite, or nearly so, generally distant from 

 one another, but closer above, very shortly petiolate, but sessile above, 

 triangular-oblong-lanceolate, often falcate, acuminate, truncate at the base, 

 largest one about 17 cm long, 9 cm wide, the lowest the largest, rachis 

 sparingly covered with fulvous minute vesiculose scales ; pinnules patent, 



