52 COMPOSITE. 



4. Head-clusters terminal 3. B. gnapltaUoldes. 



Head-clusters terminal or axillary, racemose B. ser leans. 



5. Leaves deeply laciniate 5. B. laciniata. 



Leaves serrate dentate, l>ut not laciniate 6. 



6. Climbing 6. B. chincnsis. 



Erect 7. 



7. Leaves membranaceous 8. 



Leaves chartaceous : 11. 



8. Leaves dentate 9. 



Leaves irregularly serrulate 10. 



9. Leaves densely hairy beneath 7. B. lacera* 



Leaves thinly hairy beneath 8. B. onnaensis. 



10. Heads 5mm. long 9. B. olrinaivensis. 



Heads 7-8 mm. long 10. B. leptopliylla. 



11. Heads 7mm. long i 11. B. myriocepliala. 



Heads 10mm. long 12. B. conspicua 



1. Blumea balsamifera DC.; HAYATA I.e. p. 37. 



2. Blumea hieracifolia DC.; HAYATA I.e. p. 37. 



3. Blumea gnaphalioides HAYATA sp. nov. Caulis simplex 30-40 cm. 

 longus. Folia radicalia npathulata 9 cm. longa 2^ cm. lata apice rotundata vel 

 obtusissima basi attenuata scssilia margine irregulariter denticulate membranacea 

 supra hirsuta subtus argenteo-tomentosa ; folia caulina minora. Capitula dcn- 

 sissime cymosa, cyniis terminalibus solitariis 2 cm. longis totiusque latis ; 

 capitula cylindrico-campanulata 5 mm. longa et lata, bracteis involucri 3-seriatim 

 dispositis, interioribus linearibus 5^ mm. longis ^ mm. latis denticulatis barbatis. 

 Fl. ^ : marginales multi-seriatim dispositi filiformes 3^ mm. longi ; stylo paullo 

 exserto. Fl. _ ; centrales circ. 10 ; corolla tubulosa 3-| mm. longa apice breve 

 5-lobata, lobis rotundato-triangularibus J mm. longis margine liirsutis. Aclu- 

 nium cylindricum f mm. longum ; pappi set 4 mm. longae 1 -seriatim dispositae. 



HAB. Yayeyarna, leg. Y. TASHIRO, 1887. 



Near B. sericans Hoo]v. f., but differs from it by the anatomical characters 

 of the pappus-hairs and by the capitate heads on the apex of the stem. 



4. Blumea sericans HOOK, f.; HAYATA I.e. p. 38. 



