j.iiy. 30, mr.] T. MAKISO.-COXTRIB. TO PLOJIA OP JAPAX. 



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Ray-flowers yellow. 



Nom. Jap. Me-namomi. 



Hah. JAPAX, common. 



This species is more robust than the next SiegeMßeckia glabre^cens 

 Makixo, and scales of the involucre are broader than those of the 

 latter species. 



Siegesbeckia glabrescens Maktso, nov. comb. 



Sieae-^beH-i I "rientaV.-< forma b. glabfe-'<t.'ens Makixo in Bot. Mag., 

 Tokyo, XVni. (1904>, p. 100. 



Si.sg€ä)8cL'ia orientaUs var. glabt-es/.^ns ^Lkktso, ined. 



Stem slender, often purple, thinly pubescent with adpressed 

 hairs, oj^positely branched above ; main stem continued to the top. 

 Leaves broadly ovate, oval-ovate, or ovate, acuminate, broadly 

 cuneate or rounded-cuneate and angustately cuneately decurrent to 

 the petiole at the base, irregularly many-serrato-dentate with acute 

 or acutish teeth, pul^escent \\'ith short hairs on both surfaces. 

 Heads i-ather small, rather laxly disposed. Ray-flowers yellow. 



Xom. Jap. Ko-nienamomi (nov.). 



Hah. JAPAX, common. 



Siegesbeckia orientalis Linn. Sp. PI. p. 000; DC. Prodr. V. p. 

 495; Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. m. p. 304. 



Siege^teck'ia orientalis ronni c. awjusti/olia Makxso in Bot. ^lag., 

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



S>egsshet^h'a orientals var. angu.äifdia Mxeino. ined. 



Stem attaining about 1 m. or more long, pubescent, viridescent, 

 repeatedly dichotomously branched above; top of the main stem 

 soon stopping with a peduncled head and branching dichotomously. 

 Leaves light green, puliescent with short hairs, deltoid -ovate, 

 truncato-cvmeate or deltoid-cuueate at the base, irrv^gularly coarsely 

 sinuato-dentate with usually obtuse or sometimes acutish täeth, the 

 superior ones narrower, cuneate at the base, deltoid-lanceolate or 

 lanceolate; petiole narrowly cuneately winged by the decurrence of 

 the blade. Heads very numerous, small. Involucral-scales -5, patent, 

 slender, minutely glandular. Rey-flowers 5-6 ; ligule short and 

 broad, 3-lobed ; lobes obtuse. Disk -flowers several or subnumerous. 



Xom. Jap. Tsukushi-tnenamorni (nov.). 



Hah. KIL'SIU, southern, common iT. K^vvtakamiI; T. M.\ki>o!; 

 Z. TashigoI); Prov. TOSA in Shikoku : Urado tS. YaxoI ) ; Prov. 

 SAG-On. Kurihama (T. Makin>: Oct. 15, 1916). 



This species is very common in Formosa, Loocho<>, and southern 

 parts of Kiusiu. 



