﻿394 ON THE BOTANY OF JAPAN. 



To Valeriana dioica (apparently wanting in Northern Asia) I now refer better 

 specimens of the plant which I formerly named V. Tripteris : it ranges through the 

 northern part of the American continent (but is rare eastward) under the name of 

 V. sylvatica. 



Compositce. Specimens gathered at Tanegasima, off the south end of Kiu-siu, mani- 

 festly of Thunberg's Aster hispidus (excl. sjii. Ksempf ), have led me to the correction 

 of a mistake, which originated in a wrong reference by Thunberg to Ksempfer's Amce- 

 nitates, and the consequent application of the name, Aster hispidus, to plate 29 of 

 Ksempfer's Icoues Selectee, ed. Banks, representing a plant w'hich by no means accords 

 with Thunberg's description. This, not ha\dng been perceived by Zuccarini, has led 

 to further confusion. Suffice it briefly to say, that Heteropappus hispidus. Less. & 

 DC, excl. sjTi. Kaempf. {Aster hispidus, Thunb.), is clearly identical with Heteropappus 

 rigens, Sieb. & Zucc, perhaps H. suhserratus also ; and the genus ought to subside into 

 a section of Calimeris* Ka;mpfer's plant, on the other hand, is manifestly what I 

 had named DcelUngeria scahra ? in Perry's Expedition, and is the " Dcellingeria n. sp.," 

 Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 195, but is hardly D. trichocarpa, DC. It is a gen- 

 uine Aster, and may (for all I see to the contrary) take the name of Aster Kccnqiferi. 

 Zuccarini would appear to have received the Siberian Calimeris incisa from Japan: 



busque pro genere maximis, alaribus scssilibus ; calycis limbo brevi fere integerrimo ; corolla hypocrateri- 

 morpha, tubo lobis ter longiore intus nudo ; pyreniis 2 cartilagineis latissime ovatis valde complanatis dorso ad 

 medium et margines teniiiter cristato-coslatis ; semine piano lamellaeformi. Bonin Islands. — A remarkable 

 species of Bentham's section Notopleura. 



Sttlocortne ? suBSESsiLis (sp. nov.) : fruticosa ; foliis brevissime petiolatis e basi rotundata ovato- 

 oblongis acuminatis subcoriaceis supra glaberrimis subtus cum ramulis junioribus striguloso-pubescentibus ; 

 cyma terminal! sessUi densa ; baccis globosis 1 - 6-spemiis. Bonin Islands. 



Hedtotis leptopetala (sp. nov.) : suffruticosa, glaberrima ; caule quadrimarginato ; stipulis brevibus 

 nudis ; foliis ovato- seu oblongo-lanceolatis subacuminatis mucronato-acutis basi soepius acutis brevissime petio- 

 latis chartaceis subtus fere aveniis ; cyma terminal! composita densiflora ; calyce cyatbiformi truncate brevis- 

 sime 4-dentato pedicello 2 - 3-plo breviore ; corolla; 4-partita3 nudoe tubo globoso, segmentis longe linearibus ; 

 filamentis styloque gracillimis glabris ; capsula ovoidea apice libera primum loculicida demum septicida dicocca- 

 H. multiflora, Hooh ^ Am. Bot. Beech, p. 264, non Car. Bonin Islands. 



* The following, from one of the islands south of Japan, is very closely related to Heteropappus hispidus, 

 but is a true Calimeris : — 



Calimeris ciliata (sp. nov.) : subpedalis ; caulibus ramisve adscendentibus foliosis fere glabris mono - 

 oUgocephalis ; foliis radicalibus oblongo-spathulatis obtusis crenato-serratis, caulinis oblanceolatis linearibusque 

 basi anoTistata sessilibus integerrimis, omnibus hispido-cUiatis, paginis glabris ; involueri squamis biseriatis 

 laxis herbaceis lineari-attenuatis cuspidatis hispido-ciliatis ; pappo rufo rigido achenio hirsute subdimidio bre- 

 viore, radio conformi sed parciore. Ousima. 



