MATERIALS FOR A FLORA OF FORMOSA. 163 



The present plant is just intermediate between A. cordifoUa 

 Fr. et Sav. and A. apicidata ; It differs from the former in having 

 palmately lobed leaves, and from the latter, in having secund 

 spikes. 



Crépis Linx. 



Crépis formosana Hayata sp. nov. Herba humilis, 7 cm. alta. 

 Folia omnia radicalia csespitosa, spathulato-linearia, lyrata, cnm 

 petiolis 7 cm. longa, 2 cm. lata, apice rotundata, basi attenuata ad 

 petiolum 1-1-J cm. abeuntia, ntraque latere lyrato-lobata, margine 

 remote mncronato-serrulata, lobo terminali majuscnlo, inferioribus 

 minoribus, infimis minntis, lobis lateralibns descendentibus rotun- 

 datis, 1 cm. longis, lobis infimis acntis 2 mm. longis, membranacea, 

 supra minute punctato-pubescentia, subtus brevissime villoso-pubes- 

 centia. Capitula ad apicem caulis aphylli paniculata, paniculis 

 paucifloratis, bracteis linearibus minutis. Involucrum cylindricum 

 ~) mm. longum, 3 mm. latum, bracteis 1-seriatis, circ. S, subliberis 

 lanceolatis, (imni. longis, 1 Jmm. latis, apice obtusis margine hyalinis, 

 basi dorso subcordatis, basi involucri additis bracteolis ovatis 1 mm. 

 longis. Corolla liguliformis flava. Achoenia fasiformi-ovoidea 2J mm. 

 longa, il mm. lata, leviter compressa, leviter recurva prominente 

 multi-costata, ad costas scabro-hirsuta, apice leviter attenuata, 

 truncata, basi obtusa. Pappi setao albae 2 mm. longœ, minute hirsutae 

 deciduo?. 



Jl.vn. Takao, k^g. G. Nakahara, Feb. lOOr,, (No. 825). 



X(';ir C.japonica Benth., from whieli. the present plant differs in 

 having velvety leaves. 1 have examined various forms of C.japonica 

 frt^m China, Japan, India, and Malaya, in the Herl)arium at Kew, but 

 I have not found anv torm with volvotv leaves. 



