Am. 1910.] 



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Distr. Endemica. 



Humulis, folia parva scabricla, orbicularia vel ovato-orbi- 

 cularia, obscuriter subangulato-palmatilobata, integerrima. 

 Capitula racemosa scapo gracile; squamis interioribus lanceolato- 

 linearibus, acuminatis. 



Gerbera Anandria, Schultz-Bip., Fr. et Sav. En. PI. Jap. 

 I. 263 ; — Yabe, FL Tsusim. 63 ;— Forb. et Hemsl. Jour. Lin. 

 Soc. XXIII. 472 ;— Komaro. Fl. Mansh. III. 762. 



Anandria Bellidiastram, DC. Prodr. VII. 40 ;— Korsh. Act. 

 Hort. Petr, XII. 361 ;— Max. Pr. Fl. Amur. 176 ;— Regel, Tent. 

 Fl. Uss. No. 300 ;- Herder, PL Radd. III. 4. p. 16. 



Perdicium tomentosum Thg. Fl. Jap. 319. 



Nom. Jap. Senhonyari. 



Hab. Nikko. 



Distr. China, Sibiria-orientalis, Manshuria, et Korea. 



(Finis) 



Observations on the Flora of Japan. 



{Continued, from p. 147-) 



By 



T, Makino. 



Eriocaulon cauliferum Makino, sp. nov. (Fig. XVI.). 



A caulescent annual, about 12— 21cm. high ; roots fascicu- 

 lated, white, spongy. Stem erect, stout, soft, foliiferous through- 

 out, 4-6Jcm. long, 3^-5mm. across Leaves dense, numerous, 

 setaceous, compressed, gradually tapering to a fine point towards 

 the apex, glabrous, 1— nerved, septate, entire, green above and 

 paler beneath, 3-8 Jem. long. Scapes several to numerous, fas- 

 tigiato-fasciculated at the top of the stem, erect, attaining about 

 14Jcm. in height, slender, about 1mm. across below, glabrous 

 dull green ; sheath narrow, tubular, indistinctly submany-nerved 

 with transverse venules, about 3— 3|cm. long, the mouth deeply 



