D3C. 191^.] T. MAKim.- OBSERVATIONS ON THE FLORA OFJAPAX 337 



when mature, punctiforra, globular, exindusiate, 2-rowed in 

 the pinnules, loosely disposed, 1-8 on each side, usually 

 solitary or sometimes geminate antero-posteriorly in those 

 of the forked or subpinnate venules, dorsal in the midst 

 or slightly below the middle, about 1 mm. across, intermixed 

 with exserted persistent hairs (hairs broader in the middle, 

 angustately subcuneate below, piliform above, about i-f mm. 

 long, yellowish-fulvous, colourless towards the top) among the 

 sporangia ; receptacle shortly elevated, globose, protuberant, 

 with hairs and sporangia all over. Sporangia sessile, many 

 (about 20 in number), yellow, about 1 mm. long, compressed, 

 cuneato-obovate, rounded at the apex; annulus manifest, vertic- 

 al, septiferous and broadly rounded in back, straight and 

 non-septiferous except the upper portion ventrally ; septa 

 fulvo-brown in the upper ones. Spores obovato-rounded, 

 longitudinally 3-edged, smooth, nearly pale. 

 Nom. Jap. Kusa-maruhachi (nov.). 



Hah. Prov. TOSA (H. Yamamoto ! ; Z. Tashiro ! and 

 T. Making !). 



Microlepia pseudo-strigosa Makino, sp. nov. 



Rhizome elongate, creeping, dark, often loosely ramose, pu- 

 bescent with dark-brown hairy scales, rooting. Stipes erect, 

 remote, elongate, strong, thinly pubescent, then nearly glabrate, 

 3-5i decim. long. Frond 4-6 decim. long, If-Si decim. wide, 

 lato-lanceolate to ovato-lanceolate, long-acuminate, bipmnate 

 but bipintiatifid above; rachis densely villoso-pubescent and 

 browti dorsally ; pinnae many, spreading, linear-lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, attaining ISJ cm. long, 4cm. wide; pinnules many, 

 unequal-sided, ovato-oblong, obtuse at apex, cuneate below, 

 ^vith the base above parallel with the pubescent 2nd rachis, 

 crenato-lobed to subcrenate, subcoriaceo-membranaceous, deep- 

 green and glabrous above, thinly pilose on veins beneath; 

 veins slightlv prominent beneath. Sori 2-16 to a pmnule, 

 1-limm. wide, submarginal and placed near the sinuses; 



