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hairy, simple or with short branches above. Leaves opposite, lanceolate, acuminate, 3—5—nerved, 
smooth on both surfaces, sharply serrate-dentate and ciliate at the margins, connate and embracing the 
stem at the base, 一 4 inches long, 2—12 lines broad; those near the base of the stem elliptical; those 
on the peduncles alternate, lanceolate, reduced in size. Heads homogamous, tubuliflorous, campanulate, 
2 inch long, in terminal cymose panicles; peduncles densely pannoso-lanate with soft white hairs, 1—2 
inches long. Scales of the involucre 7—10, imbricate, erect in flower, reflexed in fruit, lanceolate, minutely 
pubescent on the outside, green or tinged with dark-purple, 4—5 lines long, 1—12 lines broad, outer ones 
somenwhat broader than inner ones. Receptacle slightly convex, alveolate, densely pilose with short white 
hairs. Florets about 20 in each head. Pappus-hairs ェ ーseriate。 brownish, minutely barbellate under the 
lens, a little shorter than the corolla. Corolla regular, equal; its tube narrow, greenish, 13 lines long; 
its limb campanulate, brownish-yellow, shortly 5-lobed at the apex, 1% lines long, the lobes deltoid, 
recurved, Anther-tubes much exserted; anthers appendiculate at the apex, obtuse at the base. Style- 
arms recurved, flattened, somewhat thickened at the apex. Ovary linear-clavate, 2 lines long. Achenes 
pentagonal, faintly 10-ribbed, slightly pubescent. 
This plant grows in the mountains of the central and northern parts of the country. It flowers in 
summer. Specimens cultivated in the Botanic Garden of the Imperial University flower in July. My 


