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and placed at the base of the pedicel, minute, late-linear to lanceolate, 

 acuminate, glanduloso-ciliated, thinly pubescent, about 4-7 mm. long. Flow- 

 ers rosy, about 4-1^ cm. across, pedicellate ; pedicels strict, thinly pubescent, 

 or glabrous and glandular-pilose, attaining about 1\ cm. long. Calyx-lobes 

 retiexed, ovato-lanceolate to lanceolate, attenuato-acuminate, entire or with 

 a few linear laciniaj on margin, ciliated, sparsely glanduloso-hirsute dorsally, 

 lanato-pubescent internally, about 10-12 mm. long ; tube ellipsoid, very 

 thinly pubescent, 4-5 mm. long. Petals 5, patent, cuneato-.leltoid, emar- 

 ginate often with a minute deltoid point in centre of the broad sinus, or 

 subtruncate, sessile, about 1^-2^ cm. long, 1^—2 cm. broad. Stamens nu- 

 merous, spreading, attaining about 8 mm. long. Styles about 10-11, long- 

 exserted, erect, filiform, piloso-pubescent, about 8 mm. long ; stigma capitate ; 

 ovary lato-linear, densely hirsute. Fruit pedicellate, ovoid, smooth, glabrous, 

 naked from fallen calyx-lobes, red, with a fleshy wall, about 8—11 mm. long ; 

 achene few to several, ovoid-oblong, more or less compressed and angulate, 

 pilose, about 51 mm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Kaido-bara. 



Bab. Prov. Musashi : Ohichibu (Herb. ! Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo), 

 Mt. Bukd (T. Mahinol July 20, 1888), Tokyo, Bot. Card. Koishikawa, 

 cult. (Herb. ! Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo; T. Malano\ 1901, Dec. 4, 1905). 



Larger than the type in every respect, and has much less flowered 

 corymbose inflorescence and rosy petals. I have named this variety in 

 memory of Mr. Tomijiro Uchiyama, the chief gardener of the Koishikawa 

 Batanic Gardens, Science College, Imperial University of Tokyo. 



Ligularia japonica (Thunb.) Less. Syn. Comp. p. 390; DC. Prodr. VI. 

 p. 31G; Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 112; Diels in Eugl. Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. p. 622. 



Arnica japonica Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 319, et Ic. PI. Jap. tab. 49 ; 

 Willd. Sp. PI. III. p. 2112; Pers. Syn. PI. II. \\ 454; Spreng. Syst. Veg. 

 TIL p. 567. 



Senecio japonicus Schultz-Bip in Flora, XXVIII. (1845) p. 50; Maxim, 

 in Mel. Biol. VIII. p. 14; Franch. et Sav. Ennm. PI. Jap. I. p. 248; Hance in 

 Journ. Bot. (1882) p. 290; Franch. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, XXXIX. (1892) 

 p. 307; Matsum. Catal. Herb. Coll. Sc. Imp. Univ. Tokyo (1886). p. 106. 



Erylhrochcete palmatifida Sieb. et Zucc. in Abh. Akad. Muench. IV. 

 3, p. 189. 



Senecio japonicus forma dissecta Savat. in linuma's Somoku-Dzusetsu, 

 ed.2, XVII. n. 28. 



