38 EUSTACES. 'COMPOSITE:. 



HAH. Giran, Shokei, leg-. S. SASAKI. 



Near V. formosamim, but differs from it in the quite glabrous leaves. 



Rubiacese. 



Lixx. 



Mussaenda taiwaniana KAXEHIRA Form. Tree. p. 303. 

 HAB. Holislia. 



Composites. 

 Conspectus of Genera. 



After HOFFMANN'S system, in. ENGLER'S Sat. Pfl.-fam. IV. 5, pp. US-ISO. 



A. Plant without milky juice: corolla of disc-flowers not ligulate ............... 



................................ ........................................... TUBULIFLOI :.E. 



a. Heads homogamous, flowers tubuliformed, never yellow; anth'.T 

 sagittate at the base; style-branches subulate, hairy... Vernonige'. 

 a. Heads not collected into a cluster 



* P;q >pn.s ................................................ Etli nli. 



xx Paj)pus setaceous deciduous ..................... 1'ernonia. 



ft. Head collected into a head-like cluster ......... Elepliantopus. 



1). Heads homogamous, flowers tubuliformed, never yellow : anther 

 truncate at the base: style-branches subterete, obtuse, shortly 

 papillose ......................................................... Eupatoriea?. 



a. Anthers not ap] >eiidiculate ........................ Adenostemma. 



/3. Anthers appendiculate. 



Pappus scaly .......................................... Ageratum. 



Papj)us setaceous. 



Involucral bracts G or more than 6 ......... Ettpatorium . 



Involucral bracts 4, sometimes with small scales at 

 the base ............................................. Mikania. 



c. Heads heterogamous liguli- or tubuliformed or, ray-flowers being 

 wanted, homogamous; anthers obtuse at the base, subentire. 

 frtyle-1 >ranches complanate, appendiculate ..................... Asteme. 



