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somewhat exceeding the double length of the tube ; those in the 

 disk-flower slightly longer than the corolla. Anthers some- 



what exserted, obtuse and inappendiculate at the base ; connec- 

 tive-tip subulato-ovate ; filament glabrous, filiform, as long as 

 the anther. Style erect, glabrous ; it in the ray-flower twice 



as long as the corolla tube ; arms linear, obtuse, glabrous on 

 margins ; it in the disk-flower exserted ; arms lanceolate, acute, 

 minutely ciliated half above. Ovary obovoid-oblong or narrow- 

 lv so, adpressed-piloso-puberulous ; annulus minute and short. 

 Achcne (immature) about 2}mm. long, obovoid, compressed, 

 pilose-puberulous with white and adpressed hairs. 



Xom. Jap. Higo-shion (now). 



Hah. Prov. Higo (H. Kodzuma ! Sept. 30, 1906). 



This species comes nearer to a variety of Aster trinervius 

 Roxb., l)ii t the stem is taller, head larger, and involucral-scale 

 broader. 



Streptolirion cordifolium (Griff.) 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 

 PI. p. 722. 



Tradescantia cordifolia Griff. ' Priv. Journ. p. 208.' 



Streptolirion Griffithii Kurz. 



Streptolirion volubue Edgew. in ' Proc. Linn. Soc. I. (1845) 

 p. 254,' et in Trans. Linn. Soc. XX. p. 90, tab. 2 (1845) ; 

 Wight, Ic. PI. Ind. Or. p. 32, tab. 2081 ; Walp. Ann. I. p. 885, 

 et VI. p. 163 ; Clarke, Comm. et Cyrt. Beng. p. 59, tab. 40, et 

 Commelin. in DC. Monegr. Phanerog. III. p. 261 ; Franch. PL 

 David. I. i). 311 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 389; Schonl. 

 in Engl, et Prantl, Nat. Pfl.-Fain. II. 4, p. 67; N. E. Br. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. XXXVI. p. 159; Diels in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. 

 XXIX. p. 237, et XXXVI. Beiblatt, p. 12. 



Xom. Jap. Aoi-kadzura (nov.). 



Bab. Prov. BlTCBTO {Z. Yoshino ! Oct. 14, 1906). 



Distrib. [ndia (Himalaya, Khasia), Burma, and China. 



New to i Ik- I ; 1oi-,'i of Japan. 



(To be continued.) 



