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anthesis, oval, broadly ovate, or oblong-ovate, entire, obtuse with a setose 

 acumen at the apex, tomentose above, thickish, green, tinged with purple. 

 Petals 5, but sometimes 6-8, patent, longer than the sepals, ovato-orbicular 

 or broadly ovate, shortly unguiculate, rounded at the apex, entire, deciduous, 

 12-15 mm. long, 9-13 mm. wide. Stamens very numerous, unequal iu 

 length, the outer ones longer and spreading, and the inner ones erect- 

 patent, the longest ones equalling the sepal in length, glabrous ; filament 

 filiform, white ; anther minute, oblong-elliptical, pale-yellow, about 1 mm. 

 long. Ovary-cluster globose, very shortly stipitate on the broad conical 

 viridescent disk which lines the calyx-tube and is pubescent above with white 

 soft hairs, about 3 mm. across, pale-viridescent ; receptacle ovoid-globose, 

 naked ; ovaries numerous, densely placed, minute, narrowly obovate, sessile, 

 glabrous, viridescent ; style terminal, equal to or scarcely longer than the 



ovary, filiform, glabrous, white, with a terminal stigma. Fruit 



Fl. April 



Hah. Prov. Mikawa : Kaifuku, cult. {G. Nagura ! May 20, 1895) ; 

 Prov. MusASHi: Tokyo, cult. {T. Mahlno\ April 21, 1902). 



This well-marked variety is found rarely in the middle Japan, and it is 

 said to grow on Mt. Fuzi, prov. tSuruga. The leaves are simple, wherefore 

 this plant seems to differ very much from the iypica, which has a compound 

 leaf. It is figured and described (in Japanese) in the inedited arboreous 

 part of Yokusai linuma's " Somoku-Dzusetsu." 



Chrysanthemum indicum Linn. var. hibernum Makino var. nov. 



Stem erect, attaining about 6 decim. in height, stouter, woody below, 

 thinly pubescent with addressed hairs, ramose throughout, flexuous and 

 more or less angulate above ; branches erect-patent. Leaves ovate in 

 outline, gradually decreasing in size and at length passing into bracts above, 

 petiolate, pinnatifid with a few lobes and narrow obtuse sinuses, truncate 

 at the base, the largest one about 4i cm. long, 31 cm. wide; the lower 

 lobes pauci-lobulate on the outside and dentate, the upper lobes dentate 

 with mucrouato-ovate teeth, very thinly pubescent beneath, green but 

 often shaded with purple ; stipules often conspicuous, flabellately inciso- 

 lobed. Heads approximate, about 3cm. across. Involucral-bracts patulous, 

 viridescent, margined with very thin and scarious darkish edges, obtuse, 

 the outer ones smaller and subulate-lanceolate, the middle ones deltoid - 

 ovate, the inner ones gradually longer and oblong-spathulate. Flowers 

 bright yellow. Ligulate flowers patent, often more or less reflexed, a little 

 unequal in length, oblong-ligulate, obtuse and with one or two minute 



