covered in Japan by the late Prof. Maximovicz, growing 

 in mountain meadows of Hakodate, at two thousand to seven 

 thousand feet elevation, and has more recently been found 

 in the Chinese provinces of Hupeh, Kansu and Szechuen. 

 In 1900 plants of it were sent to Messrs. James Veitch & 

 Sons from the mountains of Western Hupeh by their 

 traveller, Mr. B. H. Wilson. In 1902 a plant of it was 

 exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society by Messrs. 

 Veitch, who kindly supplied the specimen here figured. 



Descr. — A robust herb four to five feet high, glabrous 

 or the inflorescence more or less clothed with a cobweb- 

 like tomentum. Radical leaves on long, stout petioles ; 

 blade reniform or orbicular-cordate, twelve to sixteen 

 inches across, coarsely callous-toothed, three- or five- 

 nerved from the base; nerves depressed in the upper 

 surface, and raised on the lower. Stem-leaves few and 

 relatively small; petiole with a large, inflated, stem- 

 clasping sheath. Inflorescence loosely corymbose-panicu- 

 late, six to eight inches across; branches and peduncles 

 thick, bractless or the lower branches with leafy bracts 

 at the base. Flower-heads erect, three to four inches 

 across. Involucre rounded, and broader at the base ; bracts 

 eight to ten, thick, red, linear, half an inch long, acute or 

 obtuse, margin scarious. Receptacle flat. Ray-floicers 

 twelve to fourteen, linear-lanceolate, one to one and a 

 half inch long, minutely two- or three-toothed at the tip, 

 orange-coloured. Disk-flowers orange, with exserted, 

 dark brown anthers. Achenes linear, compressed, glabrous ; 

 bristles of the pappus rigid, rough, purple-red.— J". D. H. ' 



Fig. 1 ray-flower with most of the ligule removed; % the same with the 

 tube laid open snowing the attachment of the barren stamens ; 3, disk-flower • 

 4, hair of pappus ; 5, anthers ; 6, arms of style -.-all enlarged. 



