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280. Cyanopis pubescem, Blume, De Caiid. Prodr. vol. v. p. 69. n. 2. Hongkong (Champion, 
teste cL Benth. ; Hance! Seemann!). 
281. Elephantopus scaher^ Linn., De Cand. Prodr. vol. v. p. 86. n. 1. In waste places 
(Champion, teste cl. Benth. ; Hance !) . 
Tribus II. Eupaxoiiiace2B. 
282. Agebatum conyzoides, Linn,, De Cand. Prodr. vol. v. p. 108. n. 1. Hongkong (Hance! 
Seemann !). 
283. EuPATomuM Reevesii, Wall., De Cand. Prodr. vol. v. p. 179. n. 251 + .— JS. Fortunei, 
Turcz.— Hongkong (Champion, teste cl. Benth.) ; North of Cliina (Fortune, n. 20!}. 
284. EuPATORiuM lAndleyanum, De Cand. Prodr. vol. v. p. 180. n. 254. Victoria Peak (Cham- 
pion, teste cl. Benth. J Hance ! Seemann !). 
The leaves of our specimens are scabrous on both sides, and densely punctate beneath ; their margin is 
very sharp, characters not mentioned by De CandoUc, whose brief diagnosis in all other respects agrees 
well. 
Tribus III. Asteboide^. 
285. Aster {Ortliomcris) striatuSj Champ, in Hook- /ourn. and Ke^v Misc. vol. iv. p. 233 + , 
Hongkong (Champion^ teste cl- Benth.). , 
286- Aster (Orthomeris, Torr. et Gray) Benthami^ Steetz.— Viphpappus la^m, Benth. in hond. 
Journ. Bot, vol, i. p, 487, et in Hook. Journ. Bot. and Kew Misc, vol, iv. p. 223. n, 10.— "Wlprs. 
Rep, Bot. Syst. vol. ii, p- 578. n- B.^Amphirhapis Chinenszs, C. H, Schultz, Bip, ! mas. in PI. For- 
tunei essicc, n. 110. On rather barren hills (Hinds, Champion, teste cl. Benth, ; Hance !) ; also at 
Shanghai (C. R Tonnerre !) and Chusan (Fortune, n. 110 !)• 
I adopt Eentham's view of placing this and the subsequent species, formerly referred hy him to the 
genus DiplopappuSy in the section OrtliomeriSy Torr. et Gray, oi Aster. The double pappus is indeed of no 
diagnostic value, if the exterior one is not complete and distinguishable at the first siglit. Two, three, or a 
few more short outer bristles are supposed to be of an occasional occurrencCj and may they therefore not be 
considered as an essential generic character, one constant throughout ? To this section also belongs Aster 
acuminatuSy Michx,, as noticed by Asa Gray in the 'Flora of North America,' vol. ii. pp. 156 and 157. It 
has quite the habit of the Hongkong plant, and must be removed from DipJostepTimmy Cass,, where it is 
placed by De Candollc, having the pappus neither clavellate at the apex, nor in a double series. In the 
specimens before me but few of all the acha)nia examined had a trace of outer pappus, and only sometimes 
I detected a few short bristles. The achsenia are ovate, broad, flat, marginated, and covered with appressed 
hair, but scarcely sericeous-villous, as is said to be the case in Hinds' specimens, which I have not seen. 
The pappus is rufous, as m Diplopapptis asperrimtiSj DC. The leaves are very variable in their size and 
shape, as well as in their indument; in some specimens they are very scabrous on both sides, in others very 
scabrous above, but somewhat soft pubescent beneath, or at least but slightly scabrous. Fortune's n. 110, 
from Chusan (Amphirhapis ChinensiSy Schultz, Bip,), is a mere variety of this plant, having leaves a little 
longer (sometimes 3 inches long, including petiole, and 15 lines broad), of thinner texture, and more scat- 
tered hair than the ordinary form. 
287. Aster (Orthomeris, T<yrr. et Gray) baccharoides, Steetz. — Diphpappus baccharoides^ Benth. 
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