Observations on the Flora of Japan. 



{Continued from p. 290.) 



By 



T. Makino. 



Lecturer of Botany in the Science College, 

 Imperial University of Tokyo. 



Senecio (Cineraria) Kawakamii Makino, sp. nov. 

 Senecio sp. Kawakami in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XIV. (1900), 

 p. 139. 



Perennial, attaining about 3 decira. in height, flaccid. 

 Rhizome short, erect or ascending, rooting, dark-brown, with 

 old dark-brown petioles at neck ; roots fibrous, filiform. Leaves 

 membranaceous, thinly pubescent and slightly adpressedly 

 mcano-lanuginous above, thinly adpressedly incano-lanuginous 

 beneath, laxly veined ; radical leaves tufted, spreading or erect- 

 patent, long-petiolate, ovate, ovato-oblong, oblong, or elliptical, 

 obtuse or acute at apex, usually obtuse or sometimes acute 

 and often decurrent to the petiole at base, irregularly dentate 

 with deltoid or depressed-deltoid mucronate coarse patent 

 teeth, about 4-11 cm. long, 24-51 cm. broad; petiole often 

 longer than the blade, winged above or wholly, attaining about 

 9 cm. long, incano-tomentose at the base ; cauline leaves few to 

 several, loosely placed, sessile and amplexicaul but winged- 

 petiolate in the basal ones, oblong-lanceolate, mucronately 

 dentate or denticulate, the superior ones smaller and rounded 

 or subauriculate at base. Stem erect, simple, rather stout, 

 striate when dry, thinly adpressedly incano-lanate and thinly pu- 

 bescent with glandular crisped hairs. Inflorescence corymboso- 

 subumbellate with several to many heads, subcompound ; rachis 

 short; bracts leafy and amplexicaul below, but small-sized 

 above, angustate, shorter than peduncles, thinly incano-lanate, 

 laxly glanduloso-ciliated ; bracteoles small, linear, laxly glandu- 



