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Fig. 10. Leaf of Q, serrata with teteutospore columns. 



Fig. 11. Transverse section of nredospore layer on a leaf of Q. glanduli- 



fera produced by artificial infection, x 200. 

 Fig. 12. Uredospores of the same magnificed. 



Fig. 13. A column of teleutospores produced on a leaf of Q. serrata by 

 artificial infection, with some of its spores germinating. 



Plantse Japonenses novae vel minus cognitee. 



(Continued from />. 65.) 



By 



T. Makino, 



Amstant of Botany in the Science College, 

 Imperial University, Tokyo- 



Nephrodium erythrosorum Hook. var. obtusum Makino nov. van 



Stipe slender, hard, scaly throughout, but densely clothed towards the 

 base with rufo-casta neons or darkish-brown subulate-lanceolate to subulate- 

 linear acuminate scales. Frond deltoid-ovate or ovate- oblong, acuminate, 

 bipinnate, subcoriaceous, naked above, sparingly covered with small vesiculose 

 acuminate rufous scales towards the rachis of pinnte and costa of pinnules 

 beneath ; main rachis slender, dispersed with rufous or darkish-rufous 

 linear scales ; pinnae spreading, triangular-lanceolate or lanceolate, often 

 falcate, acuminate, pinnate, but pinnatind at the apex, shortly petioled, not 

 closed from one another, alternate, or subopposite : pinnules ovate-oblong, 

 often slightly falcate, obtuse or rounded obtuse at the apex, truncate, sub- 

 cordato-truncate, or obtuse-truncate at the base, dut adnate in the superior 

 ones, crenato-serrate, often pinnatifid into obtuse and ovate lobes in the 

 lower ones, the both lowest lobes usually larger than the rest, largest one 

 about 3 Jem long, ljcm broad. Sori closer, when mature confluent to each 

 other, in 2 rows near the costa of primaries and often also in 2 rows on 

 the lower lobes. 



Nom. Jap. Maruba-benishida (T. Makino nom. nov.). 



Eab. Prov. Tosa : Sakawa (T. Makino ! Autumn 1884, July 16, 1887) ; 

 Prov. Awa in Isl. Shikoku : Nishiu-mura (R, Yatobe ! herb. 8c. Coll. Imp. 

 Univ. Tokyo, July 24, 1888). 



