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basal portion, thinly pubescent. Leaves sparse, patent or reflexed, shortly 

 petiolate, oval-elliptical, or ovato-elliptical, acute with a mucronate point, 

 but shortly acuminate in the superior ones, acute and slightly decurrent at 

 the base, repand-dentate with mucronate-tipped teeth, scabro-ciliated, rigidly 

 chartaceous, subscabrous above, thinly pubescent beneath, triplinerved, at- 

 taining about 9 cm. long, 6 cm. broad ; petiole attaining about 11 mm. 

 long, more or less pubescent, canaliculate in front. Branches erect or 

 erect-patent, slender, solitary to an axil, 4-12 cm. in length, pubescent, with 

 the laxly placed few small leaves which are very shortly petioled ovate to 

 oblong-lanceolate acuto-acuminate triplinerved and repand-dentate patent or 

 reflexed. Heads sessile towards the top of branches, or sometimes sessile at 

 the leaf-axil of main stem above, about 1-4 to a branch, solitary or sometimes 

 binate in the terminal ones, the lateral ones axillary, erect or erect-patent, 

 2-2^ cm. long. Involucre oblong-cylindrical, lj-2cm. long, about 7-8 mm. 

 across, subobconical when dry ; involucral-scales numerous, erect, close, im- 

 bricated, villoso-pubescent towards the apex, obtuse or acutish, ciliated, 

 stiffly chartaceo-membranaceous but the interior ones thinner, slightly concave, 

 with delicate subnumerous veins, viridescent but interior ones purpurascent 

 towards the apex, exterior ones short and ovate, middle ones ovato-oblong 

 to ovato-lanceolate, and the interior ones narrowly lanceolate. Receptacle 

 somewhat convex, alveolate, glabrous, about 1J mm. across. Flolets about 

 11-12 in number, nearly 2cm. long. Corolla glabrous; the tube about 

 as long as the lobes, angustate ; lobes 5, linear, acute. Stamens inserted 

 at the throat of the corolla ; filament glabrous, about 4 mm. long; anthers 

 about 8 mm. long, angustate, with the angustate long tapering tails pointed 

 downwards and nearly 3 mm. long ; connective-tip triangularly acuminate. 

 Style glabrous ; stigma minutely puberulent, shortly bifid ; lobes patent- 

 recurved, lato-ovate, acutish, glabrous in the inner face. Ovary cylindrical- 

 oblong, straight, adpressed-pubescent, about 3 mm. long. Pappus copious, 

 as long as |-corolla, minutely spinuloso-ciliated throughout, pale but some- 

 what rosy above when dry. 



Nom. Jap. Kakoma-haguma (nov.). 



Hab. Prov. Musashi : Omiya-hachiman in Wada-mura (T. Makino\ 

 October 3, 1897). 



Very rare ; it was found growing in shady forest in above-cited locality. 

 It is demonstratively an intermediate form between Perfya robusta Makino 

 (=MacrocUnidium robustum Maxim.) and P. ovata Maxim. ; where this 

 hybrid occurs the two parental species are certainly found. It is, therefore, 



