242 

 WAHLENBERGIA Schrad. 



Wahlenbergia bivalvis Merrill sp. nov. 



An creel, glabrous, lax, branched, annual herb 20 to 40 cm. high with 

 linear or linear-lanceolate entire leaves and solitary, long pedimcled, 

 blue rlowers, the capsule 2-celled, 2-valved at the apex inside the persistent 

 calyx teeth. Branches slender, terete. Leaves 1.5 to 3 cm. long. 1 to 

 IA nun. wide, acuminate, sessile or the basal ones petioled and sometimes 

 sparingly pilose, the margins thickened, the lateral nerves obsolete. 

 Peduncles solitary, slender. L0 cm. long or less. Calyx glabrous, 5 mm. 

 long, the tube 3 mm. Jong, oblong-ovoid, the lobes 5, erect, linear-lan- 

 ceolate, acute. 2 mm. long. Corolla blue, campanulate, about 7 mm. 

 long, 5-lobed, the tube nearly 3 mm. long, the lobes oblong, acute, about 

 2 mm. wide. Stamens free; anthers narrow. 2 mm. long. Ovary infe- 

 rior, 2-celled; style nearly -1 mm. long; stigma broadly lobed. Capsule 

 membranous, oblong. (5 mm. long. 3 nun. in diameter, 2-celled, 2-valved 

 at the apex inside tbe persistent erect calyx teeth, the apex convex, sub- 

 conical. Seeds indefinite, elliptical-oblong, glabrous, 0.5 mm. long. 



Luzox, Province of Benguet, Mount Tonglon (Santo Tomas) (4811 Merrill) 

 November 12, 1!)05; Baguio to Ambuklao (4361 Merrill) October 2-1, 1905: 

 District of Lepanto. Mount Data (4fif>f) Merrill) November 4, 1905. 



A species apparently distinct from Wahlenbergia gracilis A. DC, especially in 

 its 2-celled. 2-valved capsules, growing on dry open grassy slopes in thin pine 



forests 1,600 to 2.1(10 in., widely distributed but not abundant. 



COMPOSIT.lv 



AINSLIAEA DC 



Ainsliaea reflexa Merrill sp. nov. 



Erect, simple, the leaves mostly radical, long petioled, tbe petioles 

 winged-margined, the inflorescence long, racemose, tbe beads 3-flowered, 

 about 12 mm. long, solitary or in pairs. Stems glabrous, terete, simple, 

 erect 20 to GO cm. tall with few reduced linear-lanceolate leaves. Radical 

 leaves membranous, glabrous or with few long hail's beneath and on the 

 midrib above, the blade elliptical-oblong to oblong-ovate, 2.5 to (J cm. 

 long. 1 to 2 em. wide, acute, with distant, short spinulose teeth the 

 nerves 2 to 3 on each side of the midrib, rather abruptly contracted at 

 the base; petioles narrowly winged, much exceeding the lamina (i to 8 

 em. long. Heads narrow, pedicellate, tbe pedicels 2 to ;; mm. long, 

 pubescent, mostly reflexed, at least in anthesis. [nvolucral bracts spar- 

 ingly pilose witli scattered hairs, tbe lower ones 1.5 mm. long, ovate to 

 lanceolate, acuminate, the inner ones linear-lanceolate to linear-oblan- 

 ceolate, 12 mm. long, about 1.8 nun. wide. Aehenes 4.5 to 5 mm. long. 

 10 ribbed, somewhat compressed, about 1 mm. thick above, pilose with 

 scattered spreading white hairs; pappus brownish, the bristles about ;U) 

 on each achene, 6 to 7 mm. long, plumose-pilose with 1 mm. long hairs. 



