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2-lobed, lobes erect, ovato-elliptical, acute or obtuse and hyaline 

 at the apex. Heads nigrescent, depressed-hemisphasrical, 4mm. in 

 diameter. Receptacle glabrous. Involucral bracts not exceeding 

 the head in length, subnumerous, oval or orbicular, round or obtuse 

 at the apex, thin, scarious; flowering bracts very scarcely longer 

 than the flowers in length, obovato-cuneate or spathulato-cune- 

 ate, acute, or acutish at the apex, minutely crenulate above, 

 concave, subhyaline, very minutely nigro-punctulate above in- 

 ternally, white-puberulent above dorsally, about ljmm. long. 

 Flowers numerous, close and dense, very shortly stipitate, tri- 

 merous, about ljmm. long. Male flower: Calyx erect, deeply 3- 

 parted, thin, hyaline, about 1mm. long ; lobes subcarinate dor- 

 sally, oblong -rectangular, truncate or subretuso-truncate with 

 the minutely suberoso-crenulate and ciliated margin at the apex, 

 entire, slightly minutely nigro-punctulate above internally, white- 

 puberulent towards the apex dorsally, delicately 1-nerved. Pe- 

 tals 3, minute, shorter than the stamens, oblong or lanceolato- 

 oblong, ciliated at the apex, 1-nigro-spotted on the inner face 

 above; tubeobconical. Stamens 6, the oppositipetalous 3 slight- 

 ly longer; filament subulate, the oppositipetalous ones slightly 

 longer than the anther; anther blackish, oval or ovato-oval, an- 

 ther-cells oblong or linear-oblong. Rudimentary style short, trifid 

 at the top, branches black at the apex. Female flower : Sepals 

 3, erect, obovato-elliptical, rounded and subciliated at the apex, 

 entire, hyaline, subcarinate dorsally, delicately 1— nerved, 1mm- 

 long. Petals 3, erect, hardly exceeding the sepals in height, 

 spathulato-linear, 1-nigro-spotted and often few-ciliolated at the 

 acutish apex, entire, hyaline, delicately 1— nerved ; tube minute 

 and short. Ovary sessile, rotund, 3— lobed and 3-sulcate, 

 glabrous, Jmm. across ; style erect, about equal to the petals in 

 height, parted down to the middle into 3 erect filiform branches. 



Nom. Jap. Takano-hoshikusa (nov.). 



Hah. Prov. Kodzuke : Tatara-numa in Ora-gori (T. Taka- 

 no ! Aug. 10, 1909). 



A very singular species among the Japanese ones. 



(To be continued.) 



