i sb. i9io.] MAKING.— OBSERVATIONS ON THE FLORA. 35 



which are shorter than the involucre. Involucre campanulate, 

 about 9 mm. long, very thinly pubescent externally, virides- 

 cent ; scales narrowly lanceolate in the outer but the inner ones 

 lanceolate and broadly scarioso-membranceous on margins, en- 

 tire, acuminate and deusely minute-papillose at the apex, 3—8- 

 ncrved. Receptacle somewhat convex, alveolate, about 3-4 

 mm. in diameter. Ray-flowers female, about 9-12, loosely ar- 

 ranged, patent, about 18— 20 mm. long including the ovary ; 

 ligule oblong-linear, 3-rarely 4-dentate at the apex, 4-rarely 

 5-nerved, 3 — 3 J mm, broad ; tube angustately cylindrical, 

 straight, nearly J-J as long as the ligule. Style filiform, longer 

 than the pappus, arms 2 or rarely 3, divergent-revolute, linear, 

 pubescent at the rounded top. Disk-flowers hermaphrodite, 

 many, about 9-13 mm. long including the ovary, straight ; 

 corolla 5-fid with deltoid or subulato-deltoid acute-tipped re- 

 curved segments ; limb campanulated ; tube a little shorter 

 than the limb, angustate. Anthers exserted, about 2J— 3 j mm. 

 long, minutely sagittate at the base ; connective erect, oblong- 

 ovate, acutish. Style filiform, glabrous, slightly exserted upon 

 the anthers, arms 2, divergent-recurved, lato-linear, pubescent 

 at the rounded top. Pappus white, scabrous ; those of the 

 ray -flowers longer than the corolla-tube; those of the disk- 

 flowers as long as the corolla. Ovary cylindrical, adpressed- 

 pubescent, about 2\— 3 mm. long; ovule oblong-linear. 



Nom. Jap. Kan-tsuwabuki (Winter Senecio). 



Hah. Prov. Osumi : Miyanoura in Yaku-shima (T. Makino I 

 Sept. 1909; T. Ho kita ! commun. Y. Nakano, Dec. 15, 1909), 

 Minamitane-mura in Tane-ga-shima (Toki Nishimura ! commun. 

 Y. Nakano, Dec. 12, 1909, form having the depressed-lobate 

 and depressed-mucronato-dentate leaves). 



This species is allied to Ligularia tussilaginea (Burm.) 

 Makino ( = L. Kaempferi Sieb. et Zucc. ; Senecio Ksempferi DC), 

 having the more lanate thinner more deeply labate and cordate 

 leaves, smaller and more numerous heads, and more angustate 

 purple bracts. 



(To be continued.) 



