112 THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. CVoi, xxxvi. No. 430. 



Quelpaert : Loco sine indicato (TaouEt). 



OSTERDAMIA, Necker Elem. Bot. III. (1790) p. 218 ; Hitchc. 

 in U.S. Dept. of Agric, Bull. No. 772 (1920) p. 16, 165. 



Zoysia, Willd. in Gesellsch. Nat. Fr. Berlin, Neue Schrift III. 

 (1801) p. 440; Kunth Enum. PL I. (1833) p. 471; Steud. Synop. 

 Glum. I. (1855) p. 414; Benth. et Hook. Gen. PL III (1883) p. 1124. 



Matrella, Pers. Syn. PL I. (1805) p. 73. 



1.1 



3. 



CONSPECTUS SPECIERUM. 



Folia lineari-lanceolata, plana, non involuta 



j O. japonica, Hitchc. 



IFolia canaliculato-involuta v. subconvoluta 2. 



(Folia tenuissime acicularis v. filiformis 3. 



" \Folia non filiformis 4. 



Vaginae ad oram villosae, foliis longioribus 



. O. Zoysia, Honda var. typica, Honda. 



Vaginae ad oram subglabrae, foliis brevioribus 



O. Zoysia, Honda var. tenuifolia, Honda. 



J Spiculae breviores quam 5 mm. v..*. O. Matrella, Kuntze. 



ISpiculae longiores quam 5 mm 5. 



(Spicae anguste lineari-lanceolatae O. sinica, Honda. 



\Spicae late lanceolatae 6. 



{Spiculae 5—7 mm. longae, glabrae O. liukiuensis, Honda. 

 Spiculae 7-10 mm. longae, margine ciliolatae 

 « O. macrostachya , Honda. 



2) Osterdamia japonica, (Steud.) Hitchc. in U.S. Dept. of Agric, 

 Bull. No. 772 (1920) p. 166. 



Zoysia japonica, Steud. Synop. Glum. I. (1855) p. 414. 

 Zoysia pungens, (non Willd.) Fr. et Say. Enum. PL II. (1879) 

 p. 186 ; Tashiro in T.B.M. IX. (1895) p. 171, 342 ; Kawak. in T.B.M. 

 XI. (1897) p. 54, et XX. (1906) p. 201 ; Hack, in B.H.B. (1904) p. 

 527 ; Matsum. et Hayata Enum. PL Formos. (1906) p. 516 ; Nakai 

 Fl. Kor. II. (1911) p. 344, et in T.B.M. XXVI. (1912) p. 46; Hayata 

 Icon. PL Formos. VII. (1917) p. 68. 



Zoysia pungens, Willd. var. japonica, (Steud.) Hack, in B.H.B. 

 (1899) p. 642 ; Matsum. Ind. PL Jap. II. 1. (1905) p. 87 ; Makino 

 in T.B.M. XXIV. (1910) p. 344. 

 Nom. Jap. Shiba. 

 Hab. 



