Japan Flora: Stems long-creeping, prostrate, slender, loosely leafy, 7-8 mm. wide inclusive of the leaves, the branches creeping, simple to thrice forked; leaves of the lower plane membranous, narrowly oblong-ovate, 3-4 mm. long, acute, cordate at base, horizontally spreading, green, toothed, those of the upper plane ovate, 2-2.5 mm. long, cus pidate, rounded at base, appressed; spikes dorsiventral, 2,5-3 mm. wide, the bracts of upper plane larger, obliquely spread- rare. ing, broadly deltoid-lanceolate, about 2 mm. long, acuminate.

Reported to occur in Honshu (Hachijo Isl. in Izu Prov.); Bonins, Formosa, and Philippines.