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Kiang-su : Shang-hai. 

 Nom. Jap. Otentsuki. 



F. miliacea Vahl; Kunth, Enum. PI. II. 230; Benth., Fl. 

 Hoiiglv. 393 ; Boeck. m Linntee XXXYII. 43, et in Engl. Bot. 

 Jahrb. VI. 51 ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 644 ; 

 Diels in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XXXIX. 229 ; C. B. Clarke in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. XXXVI. 239. 



Kiang-sn : Alou-sek (M^). 



Xom. Jap. Hideriko-tensuki. 



? E. Stauntoni Debeaux, Fl. Tchcfou (1877) p. 151 t. 3, fig. 

 1 char, emend, ex C. B. CI. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXVI. 245. 



Annual, glabrous, subglaucous tufted ; stem slender; com- 

 pressed, l-2y2 dm. Leaves mostly shorter than the stem, flat, 

 about 2 mm. broad. Inflorescence compoundly umbellate, 2-4< 

 cm. across, with about 20 spikelets when well developed, radii and 

 pedicels unequal ; bracts several, the longest a little overtopping 

 the umbel. Spikelets (fruiting ones seen) ellipsoid, 4 x 2 mm. 

 light brown. Rachilla straight, glabrous. Glumes numerous, 

 imbricate, oblong, navicular, very shortly aristate, 2 mm.-long 

 (incl. arista). Stamens 1, overtopping style, filament filiform. 

 Su k' with its base tliickened and disc-like. Caryopsis oblong, 

 l)alc, -;{nini. long (IVijmm. incl. the main portion of style). 



Kiang-su : Shang-hai. 



This plant is iicrhaps F. Stautoni Debeaux, of which Clarke 

 run.iiks "Lhc siylo vari.-s from 2-fid to 3-fid (a rare variation in 

 tl!c genus Fimbristylis)." I noticed both 2-fid and 3-fid styles 

 mixed in the same spikclct. F. tonensis Makino is closely allied 

 tc> the 1 rexeuL -pccic- ihc author remai ks. The following 

 ditfcrenccs. though very sligiit, are found between the two 

 plants. In F. tonensis glume is more distinctly keeled, nearly 

 3 mm. long (incl. arista nearly 1 mm long) ; style branches are 

 longer than the main portion of the style ; caryopsis oblong 

 cylindrical, and so on. In the present specimen glume is 2 mm. 

 long (incl. arista which is very short or obscure) ; style branch- 

 es are subequal to the main portion ; caoyopsis oblong, and 

 so on. In every respect the flower and fruit cf F. tonensis 

 seem to be slightly larger. ( To be continued.) 



