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THE JOURNAL OF JAPANESE BOTAXr. 



\Xo\. I. No. r 



hispid hairs, attaining 8 cm. 

 long, 5 cm. Avide. Heads larg- 

 er, about 3 cm. in diameter. 

 Involucral-scales broad. Ka^^- 

 floAvers yellow, about 7-8. 



Nom. Jaj). O-lunnagurumu. 



Hab. Prov. TOSA : Kashi- 

 Ava-jima in Hata-gori (T. Maki- 

 ng ! Sept. 1881, Oct. 1885). 



This differs from Wedelia 

 hißwa DC. (Jap. KidacM-hama- 

 gvruma, Tomiira-hamagi/nnna) 

 Avhicli has the smootish, as- 

 cending and long -branching- 

 stems, many-serrated and non- 

 scabrous leaACs haAdng the 

 tapermg apex and broader l)ase, 

 more numerous and smaller 

 heads, and nurroAA'-iuAolucral- 

 scales. 



Artemisia vulgaris Linn. 



Sp. PI. p. 848. 



Yar. kiusiana Makino, nov. 



Fig. 2. AVailelia prostrnta Heislsl. v.ir. 

 robiista jSIaktno. . x i' 



Leaves lato-ovate, densely albo-tomentü.se beneath, about o -t- 

 cleft ; lobes erect-patent, OA^ate, short-acuminate, irregularly subin- 

 ciso-dentate ; leaACS among the inflorescences small and often entire. 

 Involucre thinly albo-tomentose. 



Nom. Jaji. Hiroha-yamayomogi. 



Hab. KIUSIU, mountains. 



Siegesbeckia pubescens IVIakino, nov. comb. 



SiegeshscJda orientaUs forma a. j^t'bescens IVIakino in Bot. Mag., 

 Tokyo, XVin. (1904), p. 100. 



Siegesbsckia orientaUs var. pubescens Marino, ined. 



Stem stout, green and sometimes purj)le, patently villoso- 

 pubescent, oppositely branched above ; main stem nearly continited 

 to the top. Leaves large, deep-green, flaccid, orbiculato-ovate, short- 

 acuminate, broadly cuneate or rounded-cuneate and angustately 

 cuneatel}^ decurrent to the petiole at the base, numerously irregularly 

 mucronato-dentate Avith acute or acutish teeth, softlj^ pubescent on 

 both surfaces. Heads rather large, numerous and often dense. 



