Japan Flora: Stems nearly glabrous, branched; cauline leaves elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, 20-25 cm. long, acuminate, abruptly narrowed at base, sessile, slightly clasping, pinnatifid, the lobes about 5 pairs, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, coarsely toothed, spinulose, nearly glabrous on both sides; heads solitary, long-pedunculate; involucres campanulate-globose, about 2.7 cm. long, about 4.5 cm. wide; bracts 6-seriate, long-acuminate, the outer lanceo­late or ovate-lanceolate, spine-tipped, the median oblong- lanceolate, 3.5-4 mm. wide, strongly reflexed, loosely spinulose on margin; corollas purplish, about 21 mm. long. Oct.

Honshu (Ise Prov.)