tubular part measuring one-third of the ligule, narrow. Disk-flowers 

 numerous, yellow ; the throat campanulate and shorter than the lower 

 tubular part, somewhat pilose in the lower portion as well as the upper 

 part of the tube ; lobes 5, deltoid-lanceolate, acute, reflexed. Stamens 



exserted ; anthers scarcely longer than the filiform filaments, the connective 

 tip produced into the acute and narrowly ovate appendage, obtuse at the 

 base. Style slender, filiform, glabrous, erect, straight ; arms lanceolate in 

 the ray-flowers and acute spathulate-oblong in the disk-flowers. Pappus 

 longer than the tubular part of the ray- and disk-flowers, rather copious, 

 whitish-drab, somewhat unequal in length, sub-1-serial, scabro-hispidulous. 

 Ovary narrowly oblong, compressed, angular, hirsute with white hairs, 

 2- nearly 3mm long, 3-6-nerved. 



Aster hispidus Th. ? /. minor Savat. ex Y. Tanaka et M. Ono in 

 Iinuma Somoku-Dzusetsu, ed. 2, XVI. fol. 48. 



Norn. Jap. Kurunta-giku. 



Hab. Prov. Musasht : Bot. Gard. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, cult. (Herb ! Sc. 

 Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, 1883-84). 



Pare species ; I have only two specimens which were perhaps grown 

 among the cultivated plants in the Botanic Garden of Imperial University 

 of Tokyo. 



Aster komonoensis Makino sp. nov. 



Perennial, 22-45cm high. Rhizome rather stout, thick, oblique, 

 branched, often elongate, emitting the stout fibrous roots. Stem erect, 

 terete, striate, thickest one 4Jmm in diameter at the base, leafy but in 

 flower season bare of the radical leaves, mostly simple, terminating 

 in a loose corymb. Leaves very thinly pubescent on both surfaces, 

 scabrous-ciliated on the margins ; radical leaves rosulate on the summit 

 of the innovations from the old stock, ovate, 3-6cm long, 2J- nearly 

 5cm wide, obtuse or rounded at the base and decurrent to the petiole, 

 mucronate-obtuse at the apex, coarsely dentate with broad and mucro- 

 nate-obtuse teeth, rather thick, paler on the under surface, with loose 

 veins, the petiole longer than the blade, winged, gradually narrows 

 towards the base, amplexicaul ; cauline leaves sparse, moderately dense, 

 inferior ones oblong-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, long attenuated towards 

 and rather stem-clasping at the base, mucronate-obtuse at the apex, 

 coarsely dentate, superior ones gradually becoming smaller and lanceolate, 

 and passing at length into small oblong-lanceolate bracts. Corymb 

 loose ; peduncle striate, loosely bracteate, erect-patent ; pedicel often 



