Japan Flora: the frond fleshy, green, irregularly orbicular, rarely more than 10 cm. across, 0.2-0.3 mm. thick; subulate leaves 2_4 mm. long, in scattered fascicles of 2*s to 5’s; flowers smaller and fewer on a frond than in the preceding, the spathe smaller; stamens 2, the filaments vari­ously connate; stigma cylindric to long-subulate, 0.4-0.5 mm. long, rarely to 0.8 mm. long; capsales 6- to 12-ribbed. Dec.

Kyushu (Yakushima).