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with an open throat, posterior lip, sub-horizontal, rounded or obscurely 

 2 fid ; anterior lip much larger, 3-fid, lateral lobes rounded and obtuse, 

 middle lobe broader and longer than the lateral ones, horizontal, rounded 

 or sub-emarginate, irregularly crenulate, with 2 longitudinal ridges within. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous, included, inserted on the base of the corolla-tube ; 

 filament complanate-nliform, spreading-villose ; anthers approximate, 2-celled, 

 cells divergent, ciliated at each end. St} T le filiform, somewhat longer 

 than the stamens, glabrous, 2-fid at the top, posterior lobe subulate, 

 anterior one much shorter and obtuse. Ovary-lobes 4, minute, erect, 

 rounded-ovoid, compressed, smooth, situated on sub-unequal thick disk. 

 Nutlets 4, included in the persistent and inflated calyx, erect, large, ovate 

 to oblong, obtuse, compressed, about L cm long ; carpels loose, wing-like at 

 the upper portion, smooth, with many longitudinal nerves. Seeds ovate 

 to oblong, obtuse, compressed, lenticular. 



C. moschata var. longipes Makino, Notes on Japan. Plants, NV. in 

 Bot. Magaz., Tokyo, VI. p. 54. 



Nom. Jap. Tani-zyakaso (T. Makino). 



Hab. Prov. Tosa in Bhikoku : Shinzyo-mura near Susaki in Takaoka- 

 gori (T. Makino I 1885), Tosa-yama (T. Makino ! Oct. 6, 1892), Sakawa- 

 mura, cult. {T. Makino ! Nov. 1892), Mt. Washio-yama near Kochi (K. 

 Naganurna ! Oct. 1885). 



A rare species coming nearest to C. moschata Miq., but with leaves 

 narrower, peduncles much longer and more slender, corolla smaller and 

 intensely purplish. It is almost inodorous even when w r e touch it. 



Aster (Asteroimea) Savatieri Makino in Bot. Magaz., Tokyo, VIII- 

 L894, ]». 174. 



Rhizome shortly creeping, often slightly ligneous, emitting fibrous roots. 

 Stem erect, slender, pubescent, striated, leafy, 25-60 cm high. Leaves 

 thinly pubescent on both surfaces, ciliated, erect-patent, rather loosely sparse 

 on the stem and tufted at the apical end of innovations ; basal ones usually 

 rather densely crowded, Jong and narrowly winged-petioled, ovate, rounded 

 o ate, or ovate-lanceolate, 2 \ -5 cm long, 1^-4 cm broad, usually shorter 

 than the petiole, coarsely pluri-dentate with mucronato-obtuse or mucronato- 

 acute teeth, mucronato-obtuse at the apex, obtuse or rounded or even 

 subcordate and narrowly dccurrent into the petiole-wings at the base; 

 cauline ones ovate-lanceolate, sometimes lanceolate, about 6-9 cm long, 

 2 v>\ ini broad, coarsely pluri-dentate, mucronajjo-acute or obtuse at the 



