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apex, attenuated towards the base into the short and broad petiole, 

 superior ones gradually smaller and very often entire, at length passing 

 into sessile bracts. Inflorescence terminal, loosely 1 -few-several-flowered ; 

 peduncle elongate, straight, striated, ascending, bare or bracteate, termi- 

 nating with a single flower. Head 3-4-J cm in diameter. Involucre 

 broadly campanulate ; involucral-bracts 3-seriate, somewhat curved outwards, 

 slightly unequal in length, subulate- lanceolate, 4-8 mm long, gradually 

 attenuated into a very sharply acute or acuminate apex, glabrous or 

 slightly pubescent, wholly green with a rather distinct midrib, thicker 

 towards the base, irregularly ciliated at the margin, the inner ones with 

 hyaline membranaceous edges. Receptacle conical, pitted, glabrous or 

 intermixed with white tomentose hairs. Ray-flowers about 10-19 in 

 each head, pistillate, sometimes furnished with rudimentary stamens ; corolla 

 bluish-lilac : ligule spathulate or oblong-linear, obtuse and triclentate at the 

 end, l-J-2 cm long ; tubular part short, very thinly villose. Disk-flowers 

 numerous, hermaphrodite ; corolla yellow, glabrous : lobes 4-5, acuminate 

 deltoid-lanceolate, re volute backwards ; throat campanulate ; inferior tubular 

 part narrow. Stamens exserted ; anther acutish deltoid-ovate at the 

 sterile tip, obtuse or very shortly and obtusely lobed at the base ; filament 

 barely shorter than the anther. Ovary obovoid-cylindrical, slightly com- 

 pressed, 1J-2 mm long, obscurely angular, glabrous ; style slender, filiform, 

 glabrous ; arms, in the ray-flowers, minute, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 

 margined wholly with stigmatic lines, and glabrous on the outside ; in the 

 disk-flowers, narrowly linear-lanceolate, attenuated obove, papillose hairy 

 outwards, stigmatic lines short and appendage very much longer. Pappus 

 none,, but very rarely with a ciliated, white, short, often incised and 

 sub-paleaceous seta. Achenium clavate-oblong, slightly compressed, about 

 3 J mm long, glabrous, obscurely ribbed, 3-4r-nerved ; seed clavate-obovate, 

 slightly compressed with broad cotyledons. 



Boltonia Savatieri Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, VIII. p. 174. 



Asteromcea Savatieri Makino in sched. herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. 

 Tokyo. 



Boltonia incisa Miq. Prol. fl. Jap. p. 102, excl. Syn. non Benth. 



Boltonia cantoniensis Fr. et Sav. Enum. pi. Jap. I. p. 226, et Aster 

 cantonensis Fr. et Sav. 1. c. II. p. 398, non Hisutsua cantoniensis DC. 

 Prodr. VI. p. 44. 



Nom . Jap. Nosh, u n hihu, Miyam a-yomena . 



Bab. Prov. Settsu : Mt. Maya-san (Herb ! Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. 



