Japan Flora: Stems elongate, branched, scandent, coarsely appressed-strigose; leaves thick-chartaceous, ovate, 7-14 cm. long, acuminate, rounded at base, much toothed, appressed-strigose on both surfaces, the petioles 12-23 mm. long; heads 3-6, terminal, 2-3 cm. wide, the pedicels slender; involucral bracts ovate- lanceolate or narrowly ovate, gradually narrowed to tip, densely appressed-strigose; ligulate corollas 9-13 mm. long, 35-4.5 mm. wide, yellow, 2- or 3-toothed; achenes 3-3.5 mm. long, 2-2.5 mm. wide, cuneate at base, 3-angled, coarsely stri­gose toward the tip. May-Oct. Near seashores.

Kyushu (Yakushima and Tanegashima). Bonins, Ryukyus, For­mosa, China, Malaysia, India to Australia, and Africa.