71. COMPOSITE : ASTEROIDE.E. 409 



Calimeris coronata, Schultz-Bip. in Flora, 1852, p. 48 (Fortune, 97). 



Calimeris ciliata, A. Gray, Bot. Jap. p. 394. 



Aster striatus, Franch. et Sav. Enum. PL Jap. i. p. 222, non Champ. 



China : without locality (Fortune, 30, 97 !) ; Chihli 

 near Peking (Williams] Bushelll Bretschneiderl Hancock I) 

 Shantung: without locality (Maingayl), Chefoo (Forbes \) 

 Chekiang : Ningpo (Everard !) ; Fokien : Amoy (Hance, 276 !) 

 Kansuh (ex Kanitz); Hainan (Swinhoel) ; Coeea (Perry I) 

 Luchu Archipelago (Wright \). Mus. Brit.; Herb. Kew. 



Afghanistan and Altai mountains to Mandshuria and Japan. 



Fortune's and Hance' s numbered specimens were referred to 

 this species by the late Mr. Bentham, but both Schultz and 

 Turczaninow regarded them as specifically different. They are 

 of dwarfer growth, with rather broader achenes and a rusty 

 pappus. Calimeris ciliata, A. Gray, from Luchu is the same, and 

 they are possibly different from true A. altaicus. 



4. Aster alyssoides, Turcz. Dec. Fl. Nov. Chin. Bor. p. 19 ; 

 Kanitz, Bot. Bes. Szech. Centr. As. Exped. p. 9. 



Calimeris alyssoides, DC. Prodr. v. p. 259. 



Kansuh (ex Kanitz). 



Mongolia. 



5. Aster baccharoides, Steetz in Seem. Bot. Voy. ' Herald' 

 p. 385; Henriq. in Bol. Soc. Brot. iii. p. 147. 



Diplopappus baccharoides, Benth. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. iv. p. 233 ; 

 Ft. Hongk. p. 175 ; Walp. Rep. ii. p. 578. 



Shantung: Chef oo ( Forbes !) ; Chekiang: Ningpo (Everard !) ; 

 Kiangsu : hills near Shanghai (Bullock !) ; Kiangsi : Kiukiang 

 (Forbes I)-, Pokien: Poochow (Swinhoel)-, Formosa : Tamsui 

 (Oldham, 245, 246 !) ; Kwangtung (Tate I) ; Hongkong (Hinds ! 

 Wilford ! Seemann ! Champion !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Some of the forms of this and of A. trinervius approach each 

 other very closely. 



6. Aster brevipes, Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 175. 

 Hongkong (Wright \ Champion^. Herb. Kew. 



This species was founded on two fragmentary specimens, and 

 may prove, as Bentham suggests, a variety of A. baccharoides. 



