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bent and often radicant below, flaccid, ramose, sparsely or sparingly retrorsely 

 strigoso-pilose on the surface ; internodes shorter than the leaves. Leaves 

 very shortly petioled, the upper ones nearly sessile, linear-lanceolate, or 

 linear, but oblong-lanceolate in the basal ones, attenuated above and with 

 an obtuse or acutish tip, auriculato-hastate or subcordate at the base, 

 flaccid- membranaceous, 2-1 1cm. long, |-2cm. wide, glabrous, but antrorsely 

 minutely ciliated on the margin, and the midrib very thinly antrorsely 

 pilose above and retrorsely so below beneath ; lateral veins not conspicuous, 

 many, patulous ; the basal auricles divaricate or subdivaricate, falcately 

 ovato-lanceolate or oblong, usually obtuse, attaining 13mm. in length ; petiole 

 subglabrous, attaining 7mm. long ; sheath long, attaining l|cm. long, 

 glabrous, not cihated, with a retrorsely piloso-strigose ring at the base. 

 Peduncle lateral, patent, usually longer than the leaves, divaricately 2-3- 

 branched above, sometimes compound and provided with leafy bracts ; the 

 branches filiform, thinly glanduloso-hispid, attaining about 6cm. long; 

 bracts vaginate, short, obliquely truncate, glabrous, but often piloso-ciliated 

 or loosely ciliolate. Flowers 2~6-fasciculate, shortly pedicellate, 3mm. 

 long, rose ; pedicel longer or shorter than the bracteoles, very laxly glanduloso- 

 pilose above ; bracteoles pellucid-membranaceous, connate below, entire, 

 rlabrous, longer than the bracts. Perianth 4-cleft ; segments oval-ellipticalo 

 gounded-obtuse at the apex. Stamens 4-6, included. Ovary ovoid ; 

 i§tyles 3, connate excepting the upper portion, nearly as long as the ovary. 

 Akene completely enclosed in the persistent perianth and shorter than 

 them, l|mm. across, subtrigonous-globose, minutely beaked with a short 

 base of the styles, minutely ruguloso-reticulated, nigro-castaneous. 



Hah, Prov. TosA : Eno-mura in Hata-gori (T. 3Ialdno ! Aug. 5, 1889), 

 Kyti-mura {T. Maldno \ Oct. 16, 1892; S\ Yanol 1892), Asakura (T. 

 MaJcinol Sept. 1892, Oct. 1.5, 1892), Erasawa (I. Doi\ Aug. 15, 1890), 

 Iwado (7. Doi ! Aug. 28, 1890) ; Prov. Iyo : Shoyenzi-mura in Onsen-gori 

 {K. Okudaira ! July 1894) ; Prov. Micawa : Near Toyohashi {T. Makino ! 

 Oct. 25, 1893 Oct. 29, 1894), Kameyama in Atsumi-gori {T. Maldno \ 

 Oct. 27, 1893), Noba in Hadzu-gori {G, Nagura ! Sept. 5, 1897) ; Prov. 

 Kadzusa : Nakahara-mura in Nagara-gori (Herb. ! Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. 

 Tokyo, Sept. 1880) ; Prov. Hyuga : Takanabe {R. Yatahe and J, Matsu- 

 mura ! herb. ibid. July 27, 1882) ; Prov. Mino : Iwato-mura (Herb. ! ibid.) ; 

 Prov. Suo : Ouchi-mura {D. '*Nikai ! herb. ibid. July 10, 1892) ; Loochoo : 

 Uizato-magiri in Isl. Okinawa (Herb.! ibid. May 1887), Isl. Kume-shima 

 {H, Kuroiioa ! ) ; Formosa : Daihoku {T. BIdJdno ! herb. ibid. Nov. 10, 

 1896). 



