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a finely acuminate point. Corolla glabrous ; tube angustate, 

 slightly longer or shorter than the pappus, often curved above, 

 white, 1|— 2cm. long; limb shorter than the tube, purple; lobes 

 5, linear, obtuse or acute, tortuous, about 7— 8mm. long; throat 

 shorter than the lobes, subovato-tubular, subinflated towards 

 the base, about 4mm. long. Syngenesious anthers angustate- 

 ly cylindrical ; connective- tip subulate ; basal lobes linear-subu- 

 late, sublacinulate towards the apex; filaments slightly shorter 

 than the anthers, white then fuliginous, minutely pubescent 

 with patent papillose hairs. Style exserted, filiform, purple, 

 puberulent at the neck; branches connate into a straight filiform 

 one. Pappus sordid and avellaneo-isabellinous, plumose, If— 

 2cm. long. Ovary short, oblong, glabrous, nearly 3mm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Hama-azami, Hama-gobo, Gobo-azami. 



Icon. Iinuma, Somoku-Dzusetsu, XV. n. 38. 



Hah. Prov. Kn: Wakanoura (J. Matsunwra and 5. Okubol 

 herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Dec. 29, 1878) ; Prov. Musa- 

 shi : Tokyo, Bot. Gard. Koishikawa, cult. (Herb. ! ibid. Oct. 

 17. 1879 ; T. Makino ! Sept. 27, 1910) ; Prov. Awa in Shiko- 

 ku : Kamoda-saki in Tsubaki-mura, Naka-gori (D. Nikai ! herb, 

 ibid. Aug. 25, 1906); Prov. Tosa: Hata-gori (T. Makino ! Aug. 

 1889), O-tani (T. Makinol Dec. 1892), Oyama in Aki-gori (T. 

 Makinol Nov. 1892), Shimoyama in Aki-gori (T. Makinol Dec. 

 3, 1892) ; Prov. Osumi : Ohama near Konejime-mura (T. Ma- 

 kino ! Aug. 27, 1910). 



This species grows always on the coast; it is very closely 

 allied to Cirsium brevicaule A. Gray from Liukiu Islands, from 

 which my species differs by the lack of the not cleft lobes of leaves, 

 and by the arachnoid midrib, pubescent (not villose) peduncles, 

 heads with few and smaller bracts, spinuloso-ciliated and several- 

 nerved involucral scales, smaller florets, shorter pappus, corolla- 

 lobes shorter than the throat, subglabrous filaments, etc. 



Cirsium brevicaule A. Gray, Bot. Jap. in Mem. Amer. 

 Acad. Art a. Sc. (1859), p. 396. 



Cnicus brevicaulis Henry, List PL Formos. in Trans. Asiat. 



