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lobis infimis angustatis 1 cm. loiigis 5 mm. latis, acutis pauci- 

 dentatis, a lobo superiore Ü mm. remotis, infra lobos inflmos linearia 

 33 mm. longa, 3 mm. lata, basi dilatata, caulem amplectantia, (folia 

 superiora remota, mntabilia in magnitudine, minora, lobo terminali 

 generaliter angnstiori) utrinque ad marginem costas venasque 

 breve hirsuta, supra paucissime liirsuta, siibtuö pallidissima. 

 Capitula late globosa, 7 mm. in diametro, axillaria solitaria vel 

 terminalia, longissime pedunculata, pedunculis rectis ascendentibus 

 15 cm. longis, bracteis minutis 2-3 instructis. Involucrum 

 patens, bracteis 5-6-seriatis, patento-reflexis, angustato-ovatis, 

 3 mm. longis, 1 mm. latis, sursum ciliolato-laciniatis, receptaculo 

 lato convexo, infra marginem subcontracto, elevato, nudo. Corolla ^ : 

 liguliformis parva, tubo J mm. longo, limbo | mm. longo, apice 

 obtuso, liguliformi, extus basi papillose. Styli J mm. longi, apice 

 2-lobati. Corolla ^ regularis, tubo J mm. longo, limbo campanulato 

 f^ mm. longo, 5-lobato, lobis ovatis obtusis, marginatis ; antheris 

 oblongis, apice obtusis basi truncato-obtusis, ^ mm. longis ; stylo 

 1 cm. longo, ramis J mm. longis, lanceolatis. Achsenia oblongo- 

 obovoidea, 1 J mm. longa, -| mm. lata, la?via, apice truncato-contracta, 

 basi obtusa, compressa prominente 2-costata. 



Hab. Tôzan, leg. (J. Nakahaea, Oct. 1001). 



The present plant, wliich was erroneously referred to M. 

 Wlghiil DC. by myself, is quite different from that species. This 

 differs from any other species of the genus preserved at Kew. 

 Tlie nearest I have found ;)t Kew is M. WallicJiii DC. 



Ulimiea DC. 



Blumea conspicua IIayata sp. nov. 



Blumea tipeclabiUs Hayata in Matsu^m. et Uayaïa Enum. PI. 



