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Huc fortasse ducenda exempla nimis juvenilia ca- 

 pitulis plerisque vagina inclusis, e Ye^o: prov. Kusuri 

 ad Hamanaka, 7 Aug. '84 (K. Miyabe!). In specc. e 

 Yedo Sieboldianis in hb. Acad. Petrop. servatis, cum 

 floribus iiondum apertis, capitula nonnulla ovaria fere 

 omnia habent granulis nigris globosis firmulis 10 et 

 ultra funguli cuiusdam repleta. Figuram Soo bokf 

 huc duxi ob nomen japonicum, nam E. parvim ob ca- 

 pitula nigrescentia Kuro hoshikusa appellatur. 



Parvulum herbaceoviride glabrum. Folia subulata 

 scapique pluries longiores leviter sulcati numerosa. 

 Capitula parva globosa albida in sicco compressa. 

 Bracteae involucrales et florales flores superantes 

 1-nerviae subconsimiles sed obtusae. Flores 2 mm. 

 longe pedicellati hyalini, $ multo numerosiores. Flos 

 $ perigonio externo spathaceo circa internum convo- 

 luto apice leviter trilobo 3-nervio, interioris tubus 

 farctus limbo 3-fido campanulato plus 2-lo longior, 

 lobis lanceolatis acutis cum glandula nigrescente ad 

 apicem. Filamenta vix limbo longiora subaequilonga, 

 anthera didyma ochroleuca. In flore $ perigonii exterio- 

 ris phylla 3 libera anguste linearia uno minore, peri- 

 gonium interius deficiens. Germen longiuscule stipita- 

 tum stylo sesqui longius, stylus stigmata 3 sesquisupe- 

 rans. Semina ellipsoidea transverse striolata0,3 mm. 



4. E. echinulatum Mart. in Wall. PI. as. rar. III, 

 29. Koern. in Linnaea XXVII, 619. Hance in Journ. 

 of bot. XVI, 14. 



China: in paludosis circa Cantonem (Hance!, 

 Sampson!) — Tenasserim (ex Koernicke). 



Inter nostra excellit bracteis omnibus subsimilibus 

 longe cuspidatis, unde capitulum echinatum fit. Ob 



