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MERIUIiTi. 
A scandent herbaceous plant reaching a height of 5 m. Brunches terete, 
glabrous, slender. Leaves opposite, membranous, glabrous or somewhat 
pubescent along the midrib beneath, ovato-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolatCj 
the base acute, the apex loug slender acuminate, the margins irregularly 
rather coarsely subrepand glandular- dentate, 6 to 9 cm. long, 2 to 3 
cm. wide; nerves 6 to 7 on each side of the midrib, not prominent; 
petioles 2 to 5 mm. long, bearded in the axils. Cymes axillary, few- 
flowered, the peduncles 1.5 cm, long or less, pubescent. Calyx about 
5.5 mm. long, the tube slightly hirsute, narrowly ovoid, 2.5 mm. long, 
' the lobes lanceolate, 3 mm. long, persistent. Corolla yellow, 13 mm. 
long, slightly hirsute outside, densely so within, the lobes 5 to 6 mm. 
long, hyaline margined. Stamens glabrous. Style glabrous ; stigma 
F ciliate-fringed. Fruit fleshy, ovoid, dark-purple, about 8 mm. long. 
JoLO, Mount Da jo (5324 Menill) October 11, 1906, scandent in thickets on 
exposed ridges at an altitude of 650 m., in the Moro stronghold on Mount Dajo 
which was reduced by the American troops in March, 1906. 
Apparently most closely lelated to Scaevola minaJiassw Koord., from Celebes 
and Mindanao, differing from that species in being more glabrous and with 
larger leaves which are acute at the base and not pubescent beneath. 
COMPOSITiE. 
BLUMEA DC. 
Blumea sericans Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 3 {1881) 262; Forbes & Hemsl. 
Journ, Linn. Soc. Bot. 23 (1888) 422. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley (894 Mrs. CleniGns) January, 1907, 
common in open grass lands; not previously recorded from the Philippines. 
Chittagong, Burma and Martaban to southern China and Formosa. 
