114 THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. W- xxxvi. No. 430. 



Matrella juncea, Pers. Syn. PI. I. (1805) p. 73. 



Ischaemum muticttm, (non Linn.) Matsum. et Hayata Enum. PI. 

 Formos. (1906) p. 526, p.p. 



Norn. Jap. Koshun-shiba. (nov.) 



Hab. 

 Formosa : Koshun (Y. Tashiro, no. 34, A., anno 1895). 



Distrib. ins. Philippinae. 



5) Osterdamia sinica, (Hance) Honda nom. nov. 



Zoysia pungens, (non Willd.) Munro in Seemann Bot. Voy. 



' Herald,' p. 424 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. (1861) p. 418. 



Zoysia sinica, Hance in Journ. Bot. VII. (1869) p. 168, et in 

 J.L.S. XIII. (1873) p. 134 ; Rendl. in J.L.S. XXXVI. (1903-5) p. 344. 



Nom. Jap. Nagami-no-onishiba. (nov.) 



Hab. 

 Quelpaert (Taquet). 



6) Osterdamia liukiuensis, Honda sp. nov. 



Ischaemum muticum, (non Linn.) Matsum. et Hayata Enum. PI. 

 Formos. (1906) p. 526, p.p. 



Caespitosa. Culmi ramosi, ramis erectis, 10—20 cm. alti, ad apicem 

 usque foliatis et vaginis tectis. Folia angustissime linearia, 3-8 cm. 

 longa, 1—2 mm. lata, praesertim superiora mox involuta, pungentia, 

 striata, glabra. Vaginae laxae, striatae, glabrae, ad oram pilosae, 

 superiores inflatae, spicae basin involventes ; ligula vix conspicua. 

 Spicae oblongo-lanceolatae, 2 cm. longae, 4 mm. latae ; rachis angu- 

 lato alata, glabra. Spiculae solitariae, brevissime pedunculatae, 5 

 mm. longae, 1.5 mm. latae, fuscQ-flavae, glabrae ; gluma chartacea, 

 indnrata, minutissime punctulata, sub apice breviter mucronulata, 

 glabra ; glumella inferior gluma dimidio minor, hyalina, glabra. 

 Stamina 3 ; styli exserti, stigmatibus dense papulosis, fuscis. Ovarium 

 ovatum, glabrum. 



Nom. Jap. Ko-onishiba (vov.) 



Hab. 

 Liukiu : ins. Okinawa (Y. Tashiro, no. 9, anno 1887). 



7) Osterdamia macrostachya, (Fr. et Sav.) Honda nom. nov. 

 Zoysia macrostachya, Fr. et Sav. Enum. PI. II. (1879) p. 



187, 608 ; Kawakami in T.B.M. XL (1897) p. 54 ; Hack, in B.H.B. 

 (1899) p. 642, et (1904) p. 523 ; Yubuki in T.B.M. XVI. (1902) p. 

 20 ; Matsum. Ind. PI. Jap. II. 1. (1905) p. 87. 



Ischaemum muticum, (non Linn.) Hack, in litt. ex Matsum. in 

 T.B.M. XL (1897) p. 442; Hack, in B.H.B. (1899) p. 641; 



