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numerous, moderately closed, sessile or subsessile, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, 

 truncate at the base, deeply pinnatifid, but pinnatilobed in the superior ones, 

 or cut down to the midvein in the inferior ones, the lowest the largest, 

 midvein sparse with fulvous vesiculose minute scales ; segments spreading, 

 moderately closed, ovate to oblong, obtuse with a mucronate tip, sharply 

 pointed crenato-serrate, the largest one 12 mm long, 4J mm wide ; veins flexu- 

 ous, pinnate : veinlets delicate, erect-patent, loose, free, simple, or bifurcate, 

 or pinnate with a few venules. Sori copious, 1-11 to a segment, small, 

 orbicular-reuiform when young and then orbicular, prominent, in 2 series in 

 nearly the midway between the costa and margins, terminal, or subterminal, 

 accompanied with a few hairs below ; indusium obsolete. 



Norn. Jap. Nuha-itachisMda (T. Makino). 



Hah. Prov. Tosa : Omoto in Ogawa Village ( T. Makino ! Autumn 

 1884, Aug. 17, 1887, Nov. 1891), Mt. Honokawa-yaina (T. Mahlno\ Aug. 

 10, 1887) ; Prov. Ise : Mt. Onigazyo (Z. Umemura ! April 1, 1S94). 



The young frond is frequently of rose-colour. 



Var. indusiatum Makino. 



Ultimate segments mostly obsoletely serrate, or entire. Sori indusiated ; 

 indusium orbicular, with a closed sinus, reddish-coloured towards the centre. 

 Others like the typica. 



Hah. Prov. Tosa : Omoto in Ogawa Village ( T. Makino ! Aug. 17, 

 1887). 



Very closely approaches to N. erythrosorum Hook. var. cystolepidotum 

 (Miq.). ' 



{To he continued.) 



The Annual Meeting of the Tokyo 

 Botanical Society. 



The annual meeting of the Tokyo Botanical Society was held in the 

 city, on April S and 9. About sixty of the members from different parts 

 of the country assembled. In the morning of the first day, the members 

 were invited to visit the well known private garden of Count Okunia as 

 well as the Pioyal Botanic Garden at Shinjiku. The same afternoon was 



