Japan Flora: Stems about 2 m. long, densely white-villous while young; lower cauline leaves elliptic-lanceolate, about 40 cm. long, gradually narrowed at tip, cuneate at base, short-petiolate or sessile, pinnatifid, the lobes 5 or 6 pairs, ovate or oblong, acute, scarcely spiny, sometimes short-pubcscent above, loosely cob­webby beneath; heads small, many, nodding at anthesis, on slender peduncles; involucres tubular, 1.8-2 cm. long, 2.5-3 cm. wide, cobwebby; bracts 8-scriate, appressed, scarcely spine- tipped, sometimes slightly viscid at tip, the outer oblong or ovate, about 2 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, acute, the median ob­long, abruptly acute; corollas purplish, 19-20 mm. long. Nov.

Honshu (Chugoku Distr.).