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at the base, the Lirgest one about 4i cm. hmg, 3i cm. wide; the hjwer 

 lobes pauci-lobulate on the outside and dentate, the upper lobes dentate 

 with mucronato-ovate teeth, very thinly ]mbescent beneath, green but 

 often shaded with purple ; stii)ules often conspicuous, flabellately inciso- 

 lobed. Heads approximate, about 3cm. across. Involucral-bracts patulous, 

 viridescent, margined with very thin and scarious darkish edges, obtuse, 

 the outer ones smaller and subulate-lanceolate, the middle ones deltoid - 

 ovate, the inner ones gradually longer and oblong-spathulate. Flowers 

 bright yellow. Ligulate flowers patent, often more or less reflexed, a little 

 unequal in length, oblong- ligulate, obtuse and with one or two minute 

 notches at the apex, with 2 folds on surface, 10-14 mm. long including 

 its tubular portion, 3^-42 mm. wide. Disk-flowers numerous, collectively 

 depressed hemisphterical, the corolla considerably developed, exserted, 7- 

 10 mm. long; lobes 5, patulous, deltoid-lanceolate acute, genital organs 

 included. Ovaries minute. 



Hah. Prov. Tosa: Kochi, cult. (T. Mahinol Dec. 1892); Prov. Musashi : 

 Tokyo, cult. (T. Maldno\ 1894, 1901). 



A remarkably and distinctly marked variety in garden, having its 

 disk-flowers developed considerably. This seems to have been cukivated 

 in Japan from the former times, and it is called by the name of Kankiku, 

 or Winter Chrysanthemum, 



The ty[)ical one of C. indicum Linn., is common and grows wild 

 in the southwestern Japan, and the variety horeale Makino (var. nov.) 

 is found in the middle Japan. The descri[)tion of the latter one will soon 

 a])pear here. 



Orchis Chondradenia (Maxim.) Makino nom. nov. 



Chondradenia Yatabei Maxim, in litt. ; Matsum. Catal. PI. Herb. Sc. 

 Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, (1886) p. 287, et Shokubutsu-Meii, ed. 2, (1895) 

 p. 78; Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XI. (1897) p. 413. 



Orchis Fauriei Finet in Journ. d. Bot. XII. (1898) p. 340, tab. 5, 

 fig. A-K. et in Bull. Bot. Soc. de France, XLYII. (1900) p. 276. 



Hah. Prov. Shimotsuke : Mt. Nikko (Herb.! Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. 

 Tokyo, June 1879); Prov. Sagami : Mt. Futago in Hakone {S. Okubo\ 

 herb. ibid. June 1884); Prov. Echigo : Mt. Shimidzu-t5ge {R. Yatabe and 

 S. Okubo ! herb. ibid. July 19, 1886) ; Prov. Hikuchl: : Mt. Kurikoma 

 {T. 3fakino\ Aug. 1890). 



