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ferous portion and obtu.se with papillose hairs. Pappus sessile ; in the 

 ray-flower very short, ascending, white, connate into *a cup at the base, 

 setae numerous, unequal in length, somewhat scabrous, sometimes a few 

 sefee evolved to the normal state ; in the disk-flower normal, about 3mm long, 

 shorter than the corolla, but longer than its tubular part, purplish -rufous, 

 setae numerous, slightly unequal in length, somewhat rigid, hispidulous- 

 scabrous, ascending but erect-patent or nearly spreading in fruit. Ovary 

 obovate- oblong, not beaked, compressed with two ridges, rather densely 

 pilose with mostly ascending white hairs on the ridges and both faces, but 

 mixed with glandular hairs at the upper portion of the ridges, about 1 jmm 

 long in ray-flower, but'2|mm long in disk-flower; ovule compressed, nar- 

 rowly obovate. Achenium stramineous-drab, obovate, very compressed, 

 shortly somewhat narrowed below, not beaked and rounded or truncate- 

 rounded at the top, with hard carpel, covered with adpressed hairs on 

 both faces and nearly wing-like ridges, but with short glandular hairs on 

 the superior portion of the ridges, 4-4imm long, 2J- nearly 3mm broad, 

 a little longer than the normal pappus. Seed compressed, obovate, pointed 

 below ; testa diaphanous, membranaceous ; embryo compressed, similar in 

 form to the seed. 



Nom. Jap. Sonar e-nogihn (T. Makino nom. no v.). 



Hah. Prov. Tosa in Shikoku : I si. Kashiwa-zima, in littoral place 

 (T. Makino ! Oct. 1885). 



Unquestionably a rare species ; its glabrous habit is the principal 

 peculiarity to this plant, and the leaves are usually broader and thicker 

 than those of Aster liispidus Thunb., a common species in places near sea 

 in Japan. 



Aider liispidus Thunb. ( = Heieropappus hispidus Less.) bears the 

 popular name of Jlamabe-no-kihu, and Yamadzi-no-kiku is the Aster 

 altaicu8 Willd. ( — CaHmeris altaica Nees.), which commonly occur in 

 mountain regions in this country. 



Franchet et Savatier's Aster hispidus a. isochceta in their Enumeratio 

 plantarum Japonicarum IT. p. 396, exclusive of the synonyms, maybe refer- 

 ral to Aster altaicu8 Willd., but the /?. mesochceta and the y. heterochceta 

 to Aster liispidus Thunb. itself. 



Aster trinervius Roxb. var. semiamplexicaulis Makino. 



Rhizome short, thick, woody, oblique, emitting fibrous roots and often 

 a few -louder and horizontal stolons. Stems 1-3 from a stock, erect, slender, 

 terete, sub-striate, slightly flexuous, leafy, hispid-pubescent with white hairs, 



