Tas. 7660. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM wnipponicum. 
Native of Japan. 
Nat. Ord. Compositz.—Tribe ANTHEMIDER. 
Genus CurysantuEemuM, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 424.) 
CHRYSANTHEMUM nipponicum; fruticulus 1-2-pedalis, erectus, caule simplici 
robasto paucifloro, foliis confertis 3~4-pollicaribus, sessilibus oblongo- 
obovatis oblanceolatisve obtusis basi angustatis integerrimis sursum 
crenato-serratis coriaceis supra late viridibus subtus pallidis, pedunculis 
monocephalis robustis foliis paucis abbreviatis instructis, capitulis 2-3} 
poll. diam., involucri hemispherici bracteis late ovatis obtusis herbaceis 
fusco marginatis, fl. radii ligulis linearibus albis apice 5-dentatis, fl. 
disci tubulosis pallide flavido-virescentibus, tubo tereti, dentibus brevibus 
erectis, antheris breviter appendiculatis, styli fl. fem. ramis brevibus 
ee truncatis stigmatosis, achzeniis teretibus glabris, pappo squamu- 
oso. 
C. nipponicum, Wien. Ili. Gartenzeit. 1895, p. 12. W. Watson in Gard, 
Chron. 1897, vo). i. p. 46; 1898, vol. ii. p. 348, fig. 104. 
Leucanthemnm nipponicum, Franch. ee Mawxim. in Bull. Acad, Pétersb. 
vol. xvii. (1872) p. 420; Mél. Biol. vol. viii. p. 512. 
Somoko Zusetsu, vol. xvii. t. 15 (13 litt. Jap.) 
Hama-giku, Jap. 
A very distinct species, cultivated in the gardens of 
Japan, where, according to a note by Maximowicz 
attached to specimens collected by him at Jedo on 
his second journey (1862), it is considered to be a plant 
introduced into Japan, but from what country is not 
known. There are specimens in the Kew Herbarium 
from Father Faurie, ticketed *‘ Yokohama,” probably pro- 
cured from a nursery. The species was introduced into 
Europe by Messrs. Damman & Co. of Naples, from whom 
the plant grown at Kew, from which the accompanying 
figure is taken, was purchased. 
But for its sensitiveness to frosts, C. nipponicum would 
be a very valuable open border plant. The specimen 
figured flowered in the Temperate House of the Royal 
Gardens in October, 1898. This year, owing to the 
absence of frosts, it has flowered freely in the open air in 
the same month; but it has in former years been so often 
cut " by early frosts that it cannot be regarded as 
hardy. 
JUNE Ist, 1899, 
