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•ramulose; ramules foliiferous, flexuous, shortly branclied and flori- 

 ferous towards the top. Leaves alternate, "green above, glaucous 

 beneath, sessile and amplexicaul with short rounded auricles at the 

 base, often more or less cuneately attenuated towards the base, 

 more or less tliickish, obscurely repand on margin, elliptical to 

 oblong, obtuse at the apex, attaining about 13 cm. long and about 

 7 cm. broad; midrib prominent beneath; veins erect-patent, slightly 

 prominent beneath ; veinlets anastomotic between veins, visible 

 beneath. Heads numerous, dense, about 12 mm. in diameter, 8- 

 flowered, yellow; ligule deeply 5-fid at the apex. Involucre green, 

 sulcatei«^ 



Nom. Jax3. Yakusln-wcidan (nov.). 



Eih. Prov. SAGAMI : Hayama (T. Makino ! Nov. 7, 1915). 



This has the intei-mediats habit between Lactuca denticulata 

 Maxim, and L. lanceoliti Makino var. p/T/yp/i/yZ/z Makino. Compared 

 with L. denticulda Maxim., the stem of the present plant is much 

 stouter, the lower branches stouter, longer and much spreading, 

 leaves thicker and slightly repand, heads denser and much numer- 

 ous, bracts on the pedicel not much tapering, and florets of the 

 head fewer (8 in number). This plant also differs from L. lanceolata 

 Makino var. jil ityphylli Making by having the more slender stem and 

 branches, thinner smaller repand-margined and amplexicaul leaves, 

 longer and salcate involuore, more numerous florets (8 instead of 5), 

 longer ligule, slender and longer achene, and longer pappus. It was 

 rarely found in the locality, where two species L. denticuluta Maxim. 

 and L. lanceolata Makino var. phtyphylla Makino grow together. 



Ilex crenata Thunb. Fl. Jap. (1784), p. 78, a. typica Loes. 

 Monogr. Aquifol. in Nova Acta Acad. Caes. Leop. -Carol. Germ. 

 Nat. Cur. LXXVIII. (1901), p. 200. 



forma Watanabeana Makino, nov. 



Shrub, densely ramose; branches and branchlets cinereous. 

 ' Leaves small, very shortly petiolate, obovately elliptical or oblong, 

 obtuse or acute on both ends, depressed-serrulate except the base, 

 coriaceous, glabrous, deep green and shining above, paler and 

 minutely thin-punctate beneath, 8-17 mm. long, 4-9 mm. wide. 

 Drupe globose, pedicellate, axillary, 5-7 mm. across, smooth, viridi- 

 flavescent, with a persistent green 4-lobed calyx at the base, markeu 

 with a sessile dark stigma at the top; pyreme 4, pale, fusiform; 

 pulp pale-viridescent; pedicel viridescent, 5-Gmm, long, slightly 

 enlarged above, ]5rovided with opposite or subopposite subulate 

 dark minute bracteoles in the middle. 



Nom. Jap. Kimi-inutsuge. 



