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towards the centre, with a conspicuous midrib, the margin usually scarious 

 and with glandular hairs towards the edges on the outside. Ray-flowers 

 pistillate, about 20 in number: corolla bluish-lilac, 12-14mm long; ligule 

 lignlate, often slightly narrowed below, obtuse and 3-2-dentate at the 

 apex, thin, 4-3-nerved ; tubular- part short, narrow, thinly pilose outside. 

 Disk-flowers hermaphrodite, numerous : corolla about 4-4 Jmm long, yellow^ ; 

 tubular part shorter than the throat, glabrous ; throat campanulate, very 

 thinly pilose below ; lobes 5, narrowly deltoid, acutish, recurved, with 

 glandular hairs externally. Anthers slightly exserted, about 2mm long, 

 obtuse at the base, connective-tip produced into an acute ovate-deltoid 

 appendage ; filament filiform, glabrous, equal to or shorter than the anther. 

 Style filiform, glabrous, those of the ray-flowers shorter than those of the 

 disk-flowers ; arms in the ray-flow r ers obtuse lanceolate, those in the disk- 

 flowers acutish oblong-lanceolate, the appendage scarcely larger than the 

 stigmatiferous portion and papillose-hairy on its margin and dorsal surface. 

 Pappus sessile ; in ray-flow r ers very short, erect, white, setie numerous, un- 

 equal in length, scabrous, connate into a cup at the base ; but in disk- 

 flowers l-2mm long, purplish-rufous, seta3 numerous, slightly unequal in 

 length, longer than the tubular part of the corolla and shorter than the 

 achenium, somewhat rigid, scabrous-hispidulous, erect-patent in fruit. Ovary 

 obovate-oblong, not beaked, compressed with two ridges, sometimes triquetrous 

 or occasionally 4-angled, about ljimu long, hirsute with white ascending 

 dense hairs on the ridges and also on the faces; of the latter, in the 

 upper portions mingled with short glandular hairs. Achenium amber- 

 coloured, broadly obovate, compressed, not beaked and trunca to-rounded at 

 the top, 3mm long, 2-2|min wide, 2- sometimes 3- or rarely 4-ribbed, 

 hirsute along the back of the ribs, hirsute and glandular on the faces, 

 carpel hard and thick at the ribs. Seed obovate, narrowed below, com- 

 pressed, about 2mm long, with white smooth testa; embryo compressed, 

 similar to the seed in form, cotyledons oval, caulicle tapering below and 

 much shorter than the cotyledons. 



Nom. dap. Yanagi-nogiku (T. Makino nom. nov.). 



Bab. Prov. Tosa in Shikoku: Ikku-mura (T. MaMnol Sept. 27, 1892, 

 May 1893). 



It grows on open dry ground of hill-sides of Ikku-Village in the province 

 el' Tosa in the island of Shikoku, and it blooms in autumn, but sometimes 

 continues to do so through the winter until next year. The diffusely 

 and slenderly prolonged branches present the peculiar characters to this 



