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7-lobed or angulate with very wide sinuses, firm in texture, 

 chartaceo-membranaceous, glabrous above, thinly adpressed- 

 arachnoid-pubescent beneath, the lower larger ones attaining 

 about 15cm. long and 18cm. broad; lobes deltoid, mucronoto- 

 acuminate, loosely few-mucronato-dentate and merely mucro- 

 nate on margin ; venation prominent on both surfaces when 

 dried; main-veins palmato-radiate ; veinlets numerously reticu- 

 lated ; petiole slender, very thinly arachnoid-pubescent, longer 

 than the blade in the lower ones, often auriculate with the 

 lunato-semiorbiculate lobes in the stipule-form embracing the 

 stem at the base. Panicle terminal, loosely or subdensely sub- 

 numerous- or numerous-flowered, about 8-32cm. long, ovato- 

 pyramidal or pyramidal, loosely spreadingly or erect-patently 

 ramose ; rachis slender, subflexuous, thinly crisped-pubescent as 

 well as the branches and pedicels, the lower sometimes foliifer- 

 ous ; bracts small or minute, the lower ones often more or less 

 leafy and the upper ones passed into the minute subulate squami- 

 form ones ; bracteoles minute and deltoid- subulate, those closed 

 to the involucre deltoid and imbricated. Heads about lfcm. 

 long, white, shortly or very shortly pedicellate. Involucre 

 cylindrical, about 1cm. long, glabrous ; scales 5, broadly linear, 

 auctish or subobtuse, firmly membranaceous but subhyalino- 

 membranaceous on margins, several-nerved. Flolets 5-6, ex- 

 serted. Corolla glabrous, membranaceous, nearly 10 mm. long; 

 tube gracile, throat subcampanulato-tubular, somewhat longer 

 than the tube ; lobes 5, patent-revolute, subulato-linear, acutish 

 and minutely subcorniculato-papillose at the back of the point, 

 entire, delicately 1-nerved, one-half as long as the throat. 

 Anthers exserted, narrowly cylindrical, straight, about 3Jmm. 

 long ; cells sagittate at the base ; connective-tip oblong-ovate, 

 acutish ; filament filiform, glabrous, slightly longer than the 

 anthers. Style exserted, filiform but thicker towards the base, 

 glabrous, branches revolute, filiform, subspathulate at the apex, 

 pubescent. Pappus slightly shorter than the corolla, delicate, 

 subclavellate towards the top, minutely spinulose, drab when 

 dried. Ovary linear, glabrous, about 3mm. long. 

 Nom. Jap. Momidzi+komori (nov.). 



