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inch lon^; upper leaves smaller, and those on the peduncles 5^ften lanceolate or 

 linear. Stipules small, ovate or 2-3-lobed, absent in the upper leaves. Flower- 

 heads terminal and axillary, on long peduncles, 1I-2 inches in diameter. Involucre 

 hemispherical, 5-6 Ihies across; its bracts imbricate, densely tomentose outside, the 

 outer ones linear, dilated at the base, the inner larger, lanceolate, scarious at the 

 margins. Receptacle conico-hemispherical, without palese. Florets without 

 pappus, geniculate at the apex of the ovary. Ray-florets pistillate, in a single 

 series, 15-25 in number, ligulate, white, at length purplish, with a tubular greenish 

 base, entire and obtuse or slightly 3-toothed at the apex, i-i inch long, 

 1J-2J lines broad. Disk-florets perfect, yellow; corolla tubular, rather abruptly 

 ■dilated above the middle, 5-toothed, ij lines long; anthers obtuse at the base. 

 Branches of the style in both kinds of florets thickened and truncate at the apex; 

 ovary or rather calyx-tube obliquely obconical, 5-ribbed, crowned with a yellow 

 annular disk surrounding the base of the style. Achenia somewhat curved and 

 obconical, about 1 line long; those of the disk 5-angled, somewhat flattened 

 laterally, those of the ray 4-angled, flattened dorsally. — Fl. October — November. 



This variety grows wild in the province of Satsuma. It differs from the var. 

 OL. sinense, Maximowicz (Mel. Biol., vol. viii., p. 517.), the leaves of which are 

 described in the following words: — -densius et argiititcs subniucronato-serratis , iiifei'i- 

 oribus basi cordatis. It also differse from the var. ft. japonicum of the same writer, 

 which Franchet and Savatier, in their Enumeratio Plantarwn, refer to the figures 

 in the Homo Zufu, vol. xiii , fol. 5, and in the Sbvioku Zusetsii, vol. xvii., fol. 19. 

 The latter variety has more slender stems, thinner, smaller, and less tomentose 

 leaves, and usually smaller flower-heads. It is knowm in Japan under the name of 

 Ryunbgikti, and, as Prof. Maximowicz states, common in the Hakone range and 



