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raembranaceons, hyaline, ciliated above, scaberulose towards 

 the edges, the upper portion reddish-brunneous ; Ill-glumc 

 slightly shorter than the I-glume, lanceolate, flatly boat-shaped, 

 attenuated towards and acuminate with an extremely thinly 

 membranaceous tip at the apex, membranaceous, hyaline; mar- 

 gins reflexed, ciliated obove, 2-ncrved near the margin ; the 

 dorsal surface dispersed with short hairs and reddish-brown- 

 coloured above. Flowering glume oval, membranaceous, hya- 

 line, 2-2|mm. long, deeply 2-cleft nearly down to the middle 

 with the acutish lobes, which are fringed with cilia on the 

 outer margins, 3-nerved and the lateral 2-nerves curved ; 

 awn very long, arising from the bottom of the sinus, erect, 

 filiform, extremely exserted beyond the spicula and nearly 2|-3i 

 times as long as the spicula, canaliculate and dark-brown be- 

 low, yellowish-brown above and nearly straight when fresh, 

 but twisted and geniculate in the midst when dried, 15-19 mm. 

 long. Palea minute, 2 mm. long, shorter than the flowering 

 glume and hardly shorter than the one-half of Ill-glume, mem- 

 branaceous, hyaline, ovato-lanceolate, bifid at the apex, ciliated 

 on the margin but glabrous at the lower. Lodicules 2, 

 minute, wrincled, rather thick, colourless, flabellate, truncate 

 with 2 angles at the front both edges. Stamens 3 ; filament 

 long and filiform ; anther large, longer than the filament, 3| mm. 

 long, reddish-brunneous, cylindrical-oblong, bifid at the apex, 

 deeply auriculate at the base. Styles 2, divided to the bcnse, 

 filiform, much longer than the ovary ; stigmas hardly shorter 

 than the style, 2 mm. long, plumose, dark-brown. Ovary 

 obovato-oblong, 1 mm. long, attenuated towards the base, 

 yellowish-brown. 



Norn. Jap. Unnake-modoki (T. Making), Ko-kariyasu (Id.). 



Hah. JAPAN, Central and Western (T. Making!; K. Naga- 

 NUMA ! ; K. Tsuji! ; G. Nagura ! ; J. Umemura !). 



The species is called Kariyasu in the western countries of 

 Japan, but the true Kariyasu is Mtscanthus tinctorius Hackel. 

 It differs doubtless from the preceding PolUma Tanakx Making. 



(To be continued.) 



