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viscoso-pubescent with patent hairs externally, densely pilose 

 with adpressecl hairs (which are directed towards the throat) in 

 the middle portion of the tube internally, depressed in the back 

 with a narrow-obovate face ; upper lip entire, deltoid, acute, 

 directed upwards obliquely, with 3 main nerves, the lateral 

 nerves very narrowly winged ; lower lip nearly equal to the 

 upper in length, bifid with deltoid acuminate lobes at the 

 apex. Corolla coeruleo-purple, widely ringent ; tube slightly ex- 

 ceeding the calyx, tubular, somewhat enlarged and curved 

 above ; lip thinly spreadingly viscoso-puberulent externally ; 

 upper lip slightly longer than the tube, erect, oblong, falcate, 

 bifid at the apex; lower lip much shorter than the upper, near- 

 ly rounded, concave, 3-lobed, lateral lobes very short and 

 rounded at the apex, midlobe longer and larger, often emargi- 

 nate, fimbriate-dentate. Stamens exceeding the corolla, in- 

 serted on the throat ; filament short and straight ; connective 

 long, sterile part oblanceolate, thickish, connate with the ends, 

 slightly pubescent below ; fertile part filiform, curved forwards. 

 Anther linear, about 4 mm. long, straight. Disk large. Style 

 filiform, glabrous ; stigma bifid, the lower lobe filiform and the 

 upper very short and dentiform. Ovary-lobes narrowly oblong, 

 obtuse, glabrous. Nutlets (immature) oblong, obtuse, sub- 

 triquetrous, erect, about 3 mm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Tanjin. 



Hab. LiUKiu : Shuri in Isl. Okinawa (Herb. Imp. Mus. To- 

 kyo, May 4, 1876) ; Isl. Kerama (Herb. ibid. 1876). 



Aster tataricus Linn. fil. Suppl. p. 373. 



var. minor Makino, var. nov. 



Aster hispidus Savatier in linuma's Somoku-Dzusetsu ed. 2, 

 XYI. n. 59, non Thunb. 



Much smaller, attaining about 4-6 decim. or ore in height. 

 Leaves smaller. Flower similar to the type. 



Nom. Jap. Ko-zion. 



Hab. Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, cultivated. 



Rare. 



