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fruit ; calyculus under the flower cupuliforrn, 3-fid, thin, 

 glabrous, viridescent, scarious towards the margin, about 1 

 mm. long, persistent ; lobes deltoid, obtuse or acutish, each with 

 1 midrib and an accessory delicate vein parallel to the midrib. 

 Perianth 6, persistent, viridescent and ascending in fruit, to 

 which appressed, concave and boat-shaped, entire, 3-nerved, 

 spathulato-oblanceolate, subemarginato-obtuse at the apex, 

 herbaceo-membranaceous ; outer 3 shorter and 4 mm. long 

 in fruit; inner ones 5 mm. long. Stamens 6, slightly exserted; 

 filaments stout, linear-subulate, tapering -at the tip, aseendingly 

 erect, 1-nerved, glabrous, persistent. Capsules laxly disposed, 

 equalling the inner perianth in height, but the persistent 3 

 styles exserted, about 6 mm. long including the styles, fusiform- 

 ellipsoid, shortly acutely attenuated at the base, 3— furrowed, 

 viridescent, glabrous ; carpels turged, shortly free and tapering 

 to the style, thin, 1— ribbed dorsally ; style erect-patent, 

 narrowly subulate, shorter than the carpel. Seed several in 

 each carpel, fusiform-linear, about If mm. long, somewhat 

 angulate longitudinally, shortly white-beaked at the apex, 

 yellow ; coat thin ; embryo broad-linear. 



Nom. Jap. Yakushitna-chahozekishb (nov.). 



Hab. Prov. OSUMI : Isl. Yakushima, mountains (T. Maki- 

 no ! Sept. 1909, sterile; Y. Yoshii ! Aug. 1913, fructiferous). 



It grows on shady or exposed rocks in mountains. 



Lactuca Keiskeana (Maxim.) Makino, nom. nov. 

 (Ixeris.) 



Crepis Keiskeana Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 351 (1874) ; 

 France, et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. (1875), p. 272 ; Matsum. 

 Ind. PI. Jap. II. 2 (1912), p. 64-4. 



Hieraciodes Keiskeanum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. I. (1891), 

 p. 346. 



Nom. Jap. Aze-tona. 



Hab. JAPAN, central and southern, seaside. 



Lactuca lingusefolia (A. Gray) Makino, nom. nov. 

 (Ixeris.) 



