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ous, slender, glabrous ; bracts foliaceous, gradually decreasing upwards, ovate, 

 rounded at the base, shortly acuminate, coarsely dentate but sometimes 

 mucronate-repand-dentate in superior ones, very shortly petioled or 

 sessile ; bracteoles much smaller, ovate or subulate-ovate, paucidentate or 

 entire, mucronate-acute, sessile, those close the head below smallest and 

 subulate. Head with single and hermaphrodite floret, sessile or very shortly 

 pedicellate, l|-2 cm. in diameter at full anthesis, 1-3 sometimes 4-approxi- 

 mate towards the top of first and second peduncles. Involucre cylindrical, 

 straight, 1 J-2 cm long, 2-2J mm in diameter ; involucral-bracts appressed 

 imbricate, several-serial, glabrous, thin, chartaceous, scarious on the margin, 

 ciliated with deflected hairs, rounded-obtuse, convexo-concave, several-nerved, 

 lower ones smaller and ovate, intermediate ones longer and ovate-oblong, 

 and upper ones longest and narrowly spathulate-oblong. Keceptacle 

 elongate, with involucral-bracts ascending spirally in the surroundings, 

 minute and glabrous at the top. Corolla white, exserted ; tubular part 

 narrow, glabrous, longer than the ovary ; lobes 5-parted, patent and 

 revolute, linear-ligulate, entire, acutish, with two intramarginal nerves, longer 

 than the tubular part. Anthers cylindrical, nearly erect, highly exserted 

 exposing the whole body above from the corolla- tube, connective-tip acute 

 deltoid, sagittate at the base, the auricles connate into narrowly oblong 

 white and membranaceous tails ; pollen orange- coloured, spheroid, covered 

 with numerous points ; filament glabrous, shorter than the anther. 

 Pappus copious, exserted from involucre ; seta3 white, rather weak, hispidu- 

 lous-scabrous, slightly thick towards the interrupted tip, unequal in length, 

 longer than the ovary and tubular part of the corolla, spreading in fruit. 

 Style elongate, filiform, glabrous, obclavate with a short pedicel at the base 

 and the pedicel standing in the centre of a short tubular disk which 

 situated on the top of the ovary ; arms connate and a little swollen below, 

 free and patent-recurved above, pubescent externally, lobes ovate and 

 obtuse. Ovary cylindrical-oblong, obtuse at the base, hirsute with ascend- 

 ing hairs, thickly walled, 10-nerved ; ovule erect, narrow. 



Ainslicea triloba Makino Notes on Jap. PL XV. in Bot. Magaz., 

 Tokyo, VI. 1892, p. 55. 



Macroclinidium trilobaturn Makino in Bot. Magaz., Tokyo, VKI. 

 1894, p. 302 j Idem XII. 1898, p. 194. 



Nom. Jap. Oyari-haguma (T. Makino). 



Bab. Prov. Iwaki : Between Namie and Nakamura (T. Makino \ 

 Aug. 16, 1890) ; Prov. Iwashiro : Moniwa (T. Makino ! Sept. 2, 1890), 

 Fukushima (K. Nemotol Sep. 1897). 



