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The present plant is just intermediate between A. cordifolia 
Fr. et Sav. and A. apiculata; It differs from the former in having 
palmately lobed leaves, and from the latter, in having secund 
spikes. 
Crepis Lixy. 
Crepis formosana Havata sp. nov. Herba humilis, 7 em. alta. 
Folia omnia radicalia ceespitosa, spathulato-linearia, lyrata, cum 
petiolis 7 em. longa, 2 em. lata, apice rotundata, basi attenuata ad 
petiolum 1-14 em. abeuntia, utraque latere lyrato-lobata, margine 
remote mucronato-serrulata, lobo terminali majusculo, inferioribus 
minoribus, infimis minutis, ‘lobis lateralibus descendentibus rotun- 
datis, 1 em. longis, lobis infimis acutis 2 mm. longis, membranacea, 
Supra minute punctato-pubescentia, subtus brevissime villoso-pubes- 
centia. Capitula ad apicem caulis aphylli paniculata, paniculis 
paucifloratis, bracteis linearibus minutis. Involucrum eylindricum 
5 mm. longum, 3 mm. latum, bracteis 1-seriatis, cire. 8, subliberis 
lanceolatis, 6mm. longis, 1$mm. latis, apice obtusis margine hyalinis, 
basi dorso subcordatis, basi involucri additis bracteolis ovatis 1 mm. 
longis. Corolla liguliformis flava. Achznia fusiformi-ovoidea 24 mm. 
longa, # mm. lata, leviter compressa, leviter recurva prominente 
multi-costata, ad costas scabro-hirsuta, apice leviter attenuata, 
truncata, basi obtusa. Pappi sets albee 2 mm. longee, minute hirsute 
deciduee. 
Has. Takao, leg. G. Naxanara, Feb. 1906, (No. 825). 
Near C. japonica Benta., from which the present plant differs in 
having velvety leaves. I have examined various forms of C. japonica 
from China, J apan, India, and Malaya, in the Herbarium at Kew, but 
I have not found any form with velvety leaves. 
