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Cyme corymbose, pedicels often rather slender, loosely bracteate. 

 Heads 2|-1 cm. across, with one-serial patent white ligulate 

 florets sometimes lately tinged with purple. Disk-florets yellow. 

 Involucral scales ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, tomentose towards 

 the centre, scarious on margin. 



Nom. Jap. Nodzi-giku. 



Hab. Prov. Tosa (T. Makinol); Amami Oshima (T. Uchi- 

 yama !) ; Loochoo. 



Chrysanthemum japonicum (Maxim.) Makino, non 

 Thunb. 



Pyrethrum sinense (i. japonicum Maxim, in Mel. Biol. VIII. 

 p. 518 ; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 235. 



Chrysanthemum sinense var. japonicum Matsum. Cat. PI. 

 Herb. Coll. Sc. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, (1886) p. 101. 



Much smaller than Ch. sinense Sabine, about 2—8 decim. in 

 height ; stem and branches slender. Leaves glaucescent, not 

 cordate and often broadly cuneate at the base, 3— lobed. Heads 

 loose, about 3-1 cm. across ; peduncles slender. Involucral 



scales narrow, tomentose, the outer ones herbaceous and sub- 

 spathulato-linear often longer than the inner ones, which are 

 scarious on margin. Ligulate florets loosel} r arranged. 



Xom. Jap. Ryuno-giku, Yama-giku. 



Hab. Japan. 



Xot uncommon through Japan. 



Chrysanthemum indicum Linn. Sp. PI. p. 889, excl. 

 syn.; Sabine in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIV. p. Ill ; Hook. fil. in 

 Curtis's Hot. Mag. (1903) tab. 7874. 



Pyrethrum indicum Cass, in Diet. Sc. Nat. XLIV. (182(5) p. 

 1 It). 



Leaves deep green, usually minutely glandular Oil both sur- 

 faces. Cyme corymbose. Heads not dense, about 2-3 em. 

 across, bright yellow. 



Xom. Jap. Hama-kangiku, Shima-kangiku. 



Hab. Japan, southern. 



Common. 



