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viridescent, thin, herbiceoiis, |nnnafcely veined, 3-6 mm. long, 1-3 mm. 

 wide, persistent. Flower solitary on the top of axillary peduncles, white, 

 3-31 cm. acros=!, the bud ovato-globose, truncate at base ; peduncle solitary, 

 narrow, straight or hardly flexuous, about 3-6 cm. long, leafy, the lower 

 leaves rudimentary, the basal scales small and subulate. Calyx 5-parted 

 in the normal one, but sometimes 6-8-parted, disparsed with glandular 

 patent purple hispidulous hairs and eglandular fine pubescent hairs 

 outwards, about 2-2i cm. across, persistent ; sepals patent, reflexed after 

 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 in 

 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 ram. 

 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. 



Hab. Prov. Mikawa : Kaifuku, cult. (G. Nagura ! May 20, 1895) ; 

 Prov. MusASHi: Tokyo, cult. {T. BlaJcinol 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 Yokus li linuma's " Somoku-Dzusetsu." 



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



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

 thinly pubescent with addressed hairs, ramose throughout, flexuous and 

 more or h'ss 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 



