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Nom. Jap. Kimi-no-senryd . 



Hab. Japan, cultivated. 



Litsea glauca Sieb. in Verh, Batav. Genoot: XII. p. 24. 



var. xanthocarpa Makino, var. nov. 



Fruit yellow. 



Nom. Jap. Kimi-no-shirodamo. 



Hab. Prov. Tosa : Karatani in Takaoka-gori (T. Makino I). 



Rare. 



Ligularia hiberniflora Makino, sp. nov. 



Senecio hiberniflora Makino in sched. herb. 



An evergreen perennial ; rhizome thickish, horizontally or 

 ascendingly short-repent consisting of a series of few to several 

 erect joints, adpressed-lanate with griseo-avellaneous-tomen- 

 tum ; loosely rooting ; roots elongate, tomentoso-pubescent. 

 Leaves tufted, long-petiolate ; blade cordate, orbiculato-cordate, 

 or ovato-cordate with an open or closed sinus at the base, 

 shortly acuminate at the apex, unequally lobate into deltoid 

 mucronately acuminato- acute- or sometimes obtuse-tipped 

 short lobes, which are unequally dentate with mucronately ar- 

 gute or subincised deltoid teeth or sometimes depressed teeth, 

 glabrate not shining and often shaded with more or less 

 metallic colour and subbullate-rugose above, paler prominent- 

 nerved and thinly covered with lanate hairs beneath, herba- 

 ceous but subcoriaceo-membranaceous when dried, palmately 

 7— 11- nerved, about 4— 29cm. long, 3-27cm. broad ; petiole about 

 4— 41 cm. long, terete, nanalicnlate in front, virid-purpurascent, 

 griseo-avellaneo-lanate. Scapes solitary or few, simple or 

 rarely loosely ramose, about 20-50 cm. in height, erect ; exceed- 

 ing the leaves, purpurascent, covered with lanate hairs, provid- 

 ed with a few subulato-linear scales. Inflorescence simply or 

 compoundly umbel-corymbose or subpaniculate with few to 

 many loose or dense heads ; pedicels gracile, about J— 19 cm. 

 long, naked or loosely bracteolate, thinly or densely lanate ; 

 bracts and bracteoles angustato-linear, purple, thinly to- 

 mentose. Heads erect, medium-sized, yellow,- about 3— 3f cm. 

 in diameter, the base with several linear-filiform bracteoles, 



