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of the corolla, setee rather copious, nearly rigid, sub-unequal, hispidulous- 

 scabrous, erect-patent in fruit. Ovary shorter than the pappus, narrowly 

 obovate-oblong, mostly compressed with 2 ridges, hirsute with white and 

 ascending hairs, l|mm long; ovule oblong. Achenium hairy, spathulate- 

 oblong, compressed, about 3mm long. 



Aster semiamplexicaulisW&kmo in Bot. Magaz., Tokyo. VI. 1892, p. 55. 



Norn. Jap. Inaka-gikit (T. Makino). 



Hab. Prov. Tosa : Mt. Yokogura-yama (T. Makino ! 1884, 1892); 

 Prov. Yamasiiiro : Mt. Takao-yama, forma (T. Makino ! herb. Sc. Coll. 

 Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Nov. 7, 1893), Mt. Hiei-zan (T. Makino ! loc. cit. Nov. 

 7, 189-4). 



A remarkable variety of the Aster trinervius Roxb., having tomentose 

 and usually amplexicaul leaves. 



Saussurea Tanakse Franch. et Sav. var. robusta Makino nov. var. 



Perennial. ►Stem pilose-pubescent, attaining about 80cm high, robust, 

 ilexuous, winged by the decurrence from the leaves. Leaves ample but 

 gradually decreasing in size up the stem, the inferior ones long and winged- 

 petiolecl, cordate-ovate, acuminate at the apex, thinly pilose above, pilose- 

 pubescent along the nerves beneath, ciliated on the margins, the largest 

 one 27cm long, 17cm broad, somewhat regularly subsinuate-dentate w r ith 

 sub-deltoid mucronate and about 3-7mm apart teeth ; superior ones shortly 

 petiolate, rounded at the base and decurrent into broadly winged-petiole 

 and the wing then even decurrent to the stem, most superior ones much 

 smaller, at length passing into the ovate or lanceolate bracts ; nerves ele- 

 vated on the under surface, veins about 10 or more on each side of the 

 midrile in inferior leaves, veinlets reticulate. Corymb lax. , Involucre 

 canipanulate-obovoid, obtuse at the base; 14-17mm long, about 10mm in 

 diameter; involucral-bracta imbricate, thinly woolly, with acutish and often 

 recurved tip, in outermost ones ovate, in intermediate ones oblong or narrowly 

 oblong hut in innermost ones longest and linear-lanceolate, scarious. 



Nona, -hi ) i. O-tohiren (T. Makino nom. nov.). 



Hab. Prov. Tosa: Mt, Tebako-yama (T. Makino I Aug. 1885; 

 //. Yatabe\ herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Aug. 8, 1888; S. Yanol 

 herb, 1. c. Aug. JO, 1890; /. Doi\ Aug. 11, 1892); Prov. Iyo : Mt. Ishi- 

 dzuchi-san (A'. Yatabel herb. 1. c. Aug. 9, 1888; Z. Umemural Aug. 18, 

 IS 97). 



This comes nearest to var. ph/jllolejris Maxim., but is more robust. 



(To be continued.) 



