136 A.RT. 19. — B. HAY ATA : 



Hab. Tappansha, ad 3138 ped. alt., leg. S. Nagasawa, Oct. 

 1905, (No. 780) ; Kagi : Kodensho, leg. T. Kawakami et U. Moki, 

 Oct. 1906, (No. 1740) ; Tozan, in montibns Morrison, leg. Gr. Naka- 

 haea, Oct. 1906. 



DiSTRiB. Japan and China ; westward to North India, from 

 Kashmir to Khasia, Pulney mountains in the Madras Peninsula 

 (after Hemsl.) ; also in North America. 



Artemisia niitakayamensis Hayata, (PL XX.), in Tokyo Bot. 

 Mag. XX. p. 16. Herbse perennes basi suffruticosse hirsutge 

 odoratse multicaules, caulibus simplicibus 10 cm.-16 cm. altis. 

 Folia alterna ambitu obovata 2 cm. longa 1 cm. lata basi longe 

 angusta decurrentia semi-amplexicaulia bipinnatisecta, segmentis 

 utrinque 2-3 obovatis 2-3 lobatis, lobis ovato-acutis. Capitula 

 majuscula 1 cm. in diametro aequantia erecta rarius cernua race- 

 mosa longe pedicellata, pedicellis 2 cm. longis. Involucrum late 

 campanulatum, bracteis 3-seriatis margine scariosis, intimis 5 mm. 

 longis spathulatis, interioribus oblongis margine denticulatis, 

 exterioribus gradatim minoribus ovato-acutis. Eeceptaculum semi- 

 orbiculatum sparce pilosum. Fl. ^ in ambitu 1-seriati fertiles; 

 corollse tenues tubulosse apice breviter 4-fid9e. Fl. ^ fertiles ; coroUae 

 teretes limbis parum ampliatis basi limbi constrictis apice 5-fidis. 

 Antherse apice appendiculatae basi obtusae. Styli rami apice truncati 

 dilati penicillati. Acha3nia obovoidea compressa 2 mm. longa 

 1 mm. in sectione scquantia leviter incurva apice truncata facie 

 dorsali ssepe ecostata ventrali prominente 4-costata. 



■ Hab. in monte Morrison, ad 13000 ped. alt., (Nos. 2282 et 2130.), 

 et in montibns centralibus, leg. T. Kawakami et U. Mori, Nov. 1906, 

 (No. 2195). 



As the original description is drawn from an imperfect 



