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curved upwards, longer than the heads, thinly hirsute, bare or sometimes 

 with a few diminutive bracts. Involucre campanulate, rounded-obtuse 

 at the base, about 7mm in diameter ; involucral-bracts about 22-25 

 in number, imbricate, few-seriate, glabrous, rather hard, mainly rounded 

 obtuse at the apex, but sometimes acute in the innermost ones, obtuse at 

 the base, light green with several dark-green lines and usually tinged with 

 the purplish colour towards the tip, ciliated with short glandular hairs 

 along the margins, several-nerved, outermost ones 3j-4mm long, rounded 

 and thicker, gradually passing into the innermost narrowly oblong thinner 

 and scarious-membranaceous-margined ones, the intermediate ones obovate- 

 elliptical. Heads 3- 3 Jem in diameter. Eeceptacle slightly convex, 



minutely foveolate. Kay-flowers patent, 13-17 in number, bluish lilac ; 

 ligule oblong- linear, 11 -14mm long, 2-2-imm wide, tridentate at the apex, 4-6- 

 nerved : tubular part much shorter and glabrous. Disk-flowers numerous : 

 corolla yellow, 6j-7mm long ; tubular part narrow ; throat narrow-cam- 

 panulate, longitudinally angulate, thinly pilose below ; lobes reflexed, subulate- 

 lanceolate, acutish, shorter than the throat part. Pappus somewhat 

 copious, those of the ray-flowers a little shorter than those of the disk- 

 flowers, longer than the ovary and the tubular part in both kinds of flowers, 

 slightly stilly, scabrous, light reddish-brown. Stamens nearly equal in 

 night with the corolla ; anthers longer than the filaments, obtuse at the 

 base 1 , connective- tip prolonged into the subulate-oblong appendage; ray- 

 flowers have rudimentary stamens which are narrowly filiform-linear, 4-5 

 in number, free from one another, and exserted from the tubular part. 

 Style elongate, straight, erect ; arms 2-3 in number, sharply linear- 

 subulate in ray-flowers, 2 and sharply lanceolate and papillose-hairy on the 

 superior margin in disk-flowers. Ovary narrowly clavate-oblong, often 



slightly compressed, angular, thin-walled, conspicuously 5-nerved, about 

 3mm long, glabrous but thinly pilose in the apex. 



Norn. Jap. Tama-giku (Iinuma's Sdmoku-Dzusetsu XVI. fol. 46 recto), 

 Komono-fjihu (M. Miyoshi in Bot. Magaz., Tokyo, II. p. 71. tab. V.) 



J fab. Prov. Ise: Mt. Komono-yama (71/. Myosin I herb. 8c. Coll. 

 Imn. Univ. Tokyo, Aug. 1881)). 



Thia perennial mountainous herb is undoubtedly a rare species of the 

 middle part of Japan, and it is remarkable among the Japanese Aster 

 on bearing very broad involucral-bracts. Prof. M. Miyoshi once figured 

 and described in this Magazine as above quoted, but with no scientific 

 name. 



{To be continued. ,) 



