52 COMPOSITE. 



4. Head-clusters terminal 3. B. gnaphalioides. 



Head-clusters terminal or axillary, racemose B. sericans. 



5. Leaves deeply laciuiate -3. B. lacimata. 



Leaves serrate dentate, 1 nit not laciuiate 6 . 



6. Climbing 6. B. cliincnsis. 



Erect 7. 



7. Leaves membranaceous 8. 



Leaves chartaceous 1 1 



8. Leaves dentate '- 



Leaves ii regularly serrulate 10. 



9. Leaves densely hairy beneath 7. B. lacera. 



Leaves thinlv liairv beneath 8. B. onnaensis. 



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10. Heads 5 mm. long 9. B. oltinawensis. 



Heads 7-8 mm. long 10. B. Up 



11. Heads 7 mm. long 11. B. myrioceph 



Heads 10mm. long 12. B. conspicua 



1. Blumea balsamifera DC.: HAYATA I.e. p. 37. 



2. Blumea hieracifolia DC.: HAYATA I.e. p. 37. 



3. Blumea gnaphalioides HAYATA sp. nov. Caulis simplex 30-40 cm. 

 longus. Folia radicalia spathulata 9 cm. longa 2^ cm. lata apice rotundata vel 

 obtusissima basi attenuata sessilia margine irregulariter deuticulata membranacea 

 supra hirsuta subtus argenteo-tonientosa ; folia caulina minora. Capitula den- 

 sissime cyniosa, cymis terminalibus solitariis 2 cm. longis totiuscjuc lati> : 

 capitula cylindrico-campanulata 5 mm. longa et lata, bracteis involucri 3-seriatim 

 dispositis, interioribus linearibus 5^ mm. longis ^ mm. latis denticulatis barbatis. 

 Fl. ^. : marginales multi-seriatim dispositi filiforrnes 3^ mm. lougi ; stylo paullo 

 exserto. Fl. _?. : centralcs circ. 10 ; corolla tubulosa 3| mm. louga apice breve 

 5-lobata, lobis rotmidato-triangularibus -| mm. longis margine hirsutis. Acluo- 

 niuni cylindricum mm. longiim ; pappi seta? 4 mm. lougae 1 -seriatim disposita?. 



HAB. Yayeyama, leg. Y. TASHIRO, 1887. 



Near B. sericans HOOK, f., but differs from it by the anatomical characters 

 of the pappus-hairs and by the capitate heads on the apex of the stem. 



4. Blumea sericans HOOK, f.: HAYATA I.e. p. 38. 



