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linear-lanceolate, or ovato-lanccolate, acuminate, obtuse or roundeil-obtuse 

 at base, remotely mucrona to-serrate, scabro-pubescent and green above, 

 thinly pubescent and often very minutely glandular and paler beneath, 

 triplinerved below, 2-8 cm. long, J -2 cm. wide; veinlets numerously 

 reticulated. Cyme terminal, pauci-i)luri-cephalous (2 to 10 in number), some- 

 times monocephalous ; branches loosely disposed, simple, gracile, pubescent ; 

 bracts similar to 'leaves; bracteoles similar to leaves in form but smaller or 

 much so, loosely placed, the uppermost one situated close the head. Head 

 2-2^ cm. across, whitish or c^eruleo-lilac. Involucre semisphrerical, round- 

 ed-obtuse at base, about 5-6 mm. across ; involucral scales depressed-im- 

 bricated, glabrous, darkish-viridescent-purpurascent and viscid above, sub- 

 scarious towards the margin, 1-nerved, obtuse at the apex, the outer ones 

 ovato-oblong, the middle ones oblong to narrowly oblong, the inner ones 

 longer than the rest, linear-ol)long, attaining about .5mm. long. Ray-flowers 

 pistillate, patent, rather many : corolla about 9-12 mm. long ; ligule nar- 

 rowly oblong to linear-oblong, 5-7-nerved, rounded and minutely 3-dentate 

 at apex; tube short. Disk-flowers hermaphrodite, numerous, yellow : corolla 

 about 3mm. long ; throat cami)anulate ; lobes 5, recurved, narrowly deltoid, 

 acute. Anther often slightly exserted, longer than the filamert, connective- 

 tip ovato-deltoid. Style exserted ; arms lanceolate and acutish in the ray- 

 flower, but subulato-lanceolaie, acute and hairy above in the disk-flower. 

 Pappus longer than the corolla-tube, scabrous. Ovary narrowly obovoid-ob- 

 long, pubescent above. Achene narrowly obovoid, compressed or trigonous, 

 smooth, pubescent above, 2.^-3 mm. long; papjms longer than the achene, 

 pale-purpurascent when dried. 



Hah Prov. Sag ami : Mt. Komagadake in Hakone (7', Maklno\ Se[)t. 

 15, 1886); Prov. Echigo : Mt. Shimidzu-toge {T. Maldnol Sept. 1888); 

 Prov. Shimotsukk: Nikko {T. 3IaJdnol Aug. 29, and Sept. 1901, Aug^ 

 1903); Prov. Kai : Mt. Shichimen (7'. Jnui and F. Askuawal herb. Sc. 

 Coll Imp. Univ. Tokyo, July 28, 1895). 



Abelia spathulata Sieb. et Zucc. var. sanguinea Makino in Bot. 

 Mag., Tokyo, XII. (1898) p. 17. 



A shrub, attaining about 2mm. or more in height; branches terete, fer- 

 rugineo-castaneous, castaneous, or griseo-umlwr, glabrous ; branchlets slender, 

 glabrous. Leaves opposite, very shortly petiolate, ovate or elliptical-ovate, 

 attenuatedly long-acuminate, laxly [)auci-pluri-depressed-mucronato-serrate, 

 greeu and thinly pubescent above, paler and pubescent along the midrib 



