38 RUBIACE.E. COMPOSITE. 



HAB. Giran, Shokei, leg. S. SASAKI. 



Near V. formosanum, but differs from it in the quite glabrous leaves. 



Rubiacese. 

 Mussaenda Lixx. 



Mussaenda taiwaniana KAXEHIEA Form. Tree. p. 303. 

 HAB. Holisha. 



Compositee. 

 Conspectus of Genera. 



After HOFFMANN'S system, in EXGLER'S JV(. Pfl.-fam. IV. 5, pp. 118-120. 



A. Plant without milky juice; corolla of disc-flowers not ligulate 



TUBULIFLOHJE. 



a. Heads homogainous, flowers tubuliformed, never yellow; anther 

 sagittate at the base; style-branches subulate, hairy... Vernon ice. 

 a. Heads not collected into a cluster 



* Pappus Eilivlki. 



* x Pappus setaceous deciduous 1'ernonia, 



fi. Head collected into a head-like cluster Elepliantopus. 



I). Heads homogamous, floAvers tubuliformed, never yellow : anther 

 truncate at the base : style-branches subterete, obtuse, shortly 



papillose Eupatorieae. 



a. Anthers not appendiculate Adenostemma. 



/9. Anthers appendiculate. 



Pappus scaly Ageratum. 



Pappus setaceous. 



Involucral bracts 6 or more than 6 Eupatoriuni. 



Involucral bracts 4, sometimes with small scales at 

 the base ...fifikania. 



c. Heads heterogamous liguli- or tubuliformed or, ray-flowers being- 

 wanted, homogamous : anthers obtuse at the base, subentire. 

 Style-branches complanate, appendiculate Asterese. 



