(2) 



in May, 1887, in woods on Mt. Hachljo-Fuji in the island of Hachijo, south of 

 the province of Izu. They have been since kept in the Botanic Garden of the 

 Imperial University. 



Plate XIX. Fig. i, Flower; 2, flower-bud; 3, vertical section of flower; 4, 

 dorsal sepal and petals; 5, dorsal sepal; 6, dorsal petal; 7, lateral sepal; 8, 

 labellum and column; 9, front view of labellum; 10, front view of column; ir, 

 back view of column; 12, anther opened showing the pollinia; 13, same with 

 pollinia removed; 14, pollinia; 15, transverse section of ovary: — all enlarged. 



A New Variety of Chrysanthemum Sinense, Sab. 



Ryokiehi Yatabe, Sc. D. 



Chrysanthemum sinense, Sab., var. satsumensis. 



Noni. jap. Satsuma-nogiku. "^ y -^ ^ ^ ^ 

 (Plate XX.) 



Chrysanthemum sinense, Sabine, Trans. Hort. Soc. Lond., vol. iv., p. 330, tab. 



14. — Forbes & Hemsley, Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. xxiii., p. 438. — Pyrethrum sinense^ 



DeCandoUe, Prodr., vol. vi., p. 62. — Maximowicz, Mel. Biol., vol. viii., p. 517.- 



Franchet et Savatier, Enum. Plant. Jap., vol. i., p. 235. Var. satsumensis . 



Stem shrubby, 2 feet or more high'; branches densely albo-tomentose with 

 appressed hairs. Leaves alternate, petiolate, coriaceous, pale green and pubescent 

 with short erect hairs on the upper, densely albo-tomentose on the lower surface, 

 pinnatifid into 3-5 lobes, the lobes incised or coarsely and unequally dentate, the incis- 

 ions or teeth obtuse; lower leaves larger, 3 inches long, 2 inches broad, with a petiole I 



