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in height ; 2 long ones exserted but lower than the upper lip ; filament filiform, 

 glabrous, white; connective white, thick; anther minute; cells divergent, 

 purplish, with white pollen. Ovary-lobes 4, minute, ovoid, glal)rous, smooth, 

 viridescent, ^ mm. long ; disk thick, yellowish-green ; style filiform, glabrous, 

 white, slightly higher than the long stamens, but lower than the upper Jip ; 

 stigma simple, subulate, white. 



Nom. Jap. Yama-kurumahana (nov.). 



Hah. JAPAN, not uncommon. 



This species resemble C. chinense O. Kuntze, but the former has the smal- 

 ler and lighter coloured flowers. 



Erigeron musashensis Makixo, nov. sp. 



A stout annual, attaining about 1| m. in height ; tap-root elongate, per- 

 pendicular, emitting filiform branch-roots. Stem erect, tall, straight, terete, 

 green-streaked and striate, hirsuto-pubescent with spreading white hairs, nu- 

 merously and öfter densely leafy throughout, simple or sometimes little branched 

 above, the largest one about 11 mm. in diameter. Leaves rather thin and flac- 

 cid in texture ; radical ones tufted, long-petiolate, oblanceolate, acute at the 

 apex, narrowly cuneate below, coarsely and irregularly dentate, green and 

 thinly puberulous above, paler and with pubescent loose nerves beneath, cilia- 

 ted, attaining about 27 cm. in length including the pubescent narrow petiole, 

 4§ cm. wide ; cauline leaves numerous, sparse, narrowly ol^laneeolate, oblanceo- 

 lato-linear, or broadly linear, acuminate at the apex, narrowly attenuated below 

 into a petiole, remotely or coarsely dentate or deeply dentate (or irregularly 

 so) in the lower ones, few-dentate or entire in the superior ones, subappres- 

 sedly puberulous or hirsuto-puberulous with antrorse hairs on both surfaces, 

 cUiated on margin with curved antrorse hairs, 2-15 cm. long, 2-30 mm. wide ; 

 midrib slender, prominent beneath ; veins loose, ascending and finally con- 

 nected with others ; usually provided with a short sterile branch or a normal 

 fertile branch above in the leaf-axils. Panicle often large, ovate or narrowly 

 ■ovate, repeatedly ramose and copiousely capituliferous, about 1-5 decim. long ; 

 rachis erect, straight, hirsuto-pubescent with patent hairs below and pubescent 

 with antrorse hairs above, green-streaked and striate as in the stem ; 

 branches and branchlets numerous, erect-patent, puliescent with antrorse 

 liairs ; bracts leafy, broad-linear to linear ; ultimate bracteoles minute and 

 subulato-linear. Capitulum small, discoidal, pale-yellowish, narrowly ovoid, 

 about 5 mm. long, 3 mm. across, but globoso-ovoid and about 4 mm. across 

 after anthesis, rounded-obtuse at the base, pedicellate; pedicel gracile, puberu- 

 lous with antrorse hairs. Receptacle flatly convex, pale, naked, exasperate, 

 about 2 mm. across. Involucre little imbricate ; scales linear-subulate, acumi- 

 nate, minutely spinuloso-ciliated on margins towards the apex, green, scarious- 

 margined, pul:)erulous with ei'ect-patent hairs dorsally, glabrous within, about 

 4 mm. long, but the external ones shorter, spreading in fruit and at length 

 dried and strongly reflexed. Flowers numerous, the outer pistillate and the 

 inner hermaphrodite; ray-flower none. Corolla in the pistillate flower filiform- 



