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THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. 



[Vol. V. November lo, 1891. No. 58.] 



New or Little Known Plants ^Japanp. ^^ ^\ 



No. 16. // fetiOlJuAN^.'- 



Ryokichi Yatabe, Sc. iX - ^ I. Mi ^ i^ -^ ^ ^Sl 



Arenaria chokaiensis, nov. sp. 



Nom. jap. Chokai-fusuma. T ^y 1j y] y 7, ^ . 



Caryopliyllese. 



(Plate XXXI.) 



Rhizome slender, long-creeping, somewhat woody. Stems c^sspitose, 

 branched from the base, tomentose, 2—5 inches high. Leaves sessile, rather 

 thick, oval or oblong, or oblong-lanceolate in luxuriant specimens, i^ — nerved, 

 acute, pubescent on both surfaces, ciliate at the margins, 3 lines to i inch long, 

 2 — 4 lines broad; lower leaves reduced to small ovate scales, i — 2 lines long. 

 Flowers few towards the apex of stems or branches, solitary, erect, axillary 

 and terminal; peduncles 3 — 6 lines long. Sepals 5, lanceolate, acutish, 3 — 4 

 lines long Petals ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, short-clawed, about as long as or 

 a little longer than the sepals, white. Stamens 10, inserted on the hypogynous 

 annular disk, about as long as the petals, 5 longer ones on the 5 lobes of the 

 disk; filaments filiform; anthers 2 — celled, dorsifixed, each cell oblong and 

 about ^ line long. Ovary ovoid, i — celled, i J lines long; styles 3, filiform, 

 recurved and divergent towards the apex, stigmatose on the inner side, i J 

 lines long; ovules several, subreniform, amphitropous, on rather slender funicles 



