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Lobes lanceolate, acute or obtuse, about 2.5 mm. Long. Style arms Dearly 

 L.5 mm. Long. Anthers slender, 3 mm. Long or less. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Bugias (4(>(U Merrill) October 28, 1805. The fol- 

 lowing specimens arc apparently referable here: Benguet, Baguio (6599, 6606 

 Elmer) June, 1 i»()4 : (4265 Merrill) October, 1905. 



A species characteristic of the open. dry. grassy slopes in thin pine forests from 

 1,500 to '2.100 in., widely distributed in Ben»nct and Lcpanto; abundant. The 

 species here proposed differs from Emilia sonohifolia DC, in the involucral bracts 

 being constantly much shorter than the Mowers, in this character approaching 

 Emilia flammea Cass. As in Emilia sonohifolia, the species is exceedingly 

 variable, but is apparently distinct from all other previously described forms. 

 Emilia sonohifolia Elmer, in herb. 



GYNURA (ass. 



Gynura dementis Merrill sp. now 



Scandent, more or less pubescent with crisped hairs throughout. 

 Branches dark brown, obscurely angled, ferruginous crisped pubescent 

 with scattered hairs. Leaves alternate, elliptical-oblong to narrowly 

 oblong-obovate, 5 to 8 cm. Long, 1.5 to 3.5 em. wide, coriaceous, acute 

 at hotli vm\^. coarsely irregularly toothed, the teeth acute, the upper 

 surface suhscahrid, the lower rather densely ferruginous pubescent : 

 nerves 5 to (> on each side of the midrib; petioles 0.8 to L.5 em. long. 

 pubescent, the stipules orbicular, often 1 em. in diameter. Heads 

 purplish, aboul 25-flowered, 1.5 cm. Long or less, in few flowered axillary 

 and terminal corymbs 10 em. Long or less. Involucre 1 cylindrical or 

 subcampanulate, the bracts 8, oblongdanceolate, acnte, 1 to 8 mm. long, 

 l.."i to 2*5 mm. wide, somewhat pubescent with crisped hairs, and with 

 several short linear bracteoles at the base. Flowers homogamous. pur- 

 plish, slender, about L2 mm. lone- including the achene, the tube "» nun. 

 long, the upper slightly expanded portion about 3 mm. long, the teeth 5, 

 lanceolate, acnte, 1.5 mm. long. Stamens 5; anthers 2 mm. long, 

 lanceolate, the cells not produced at the base. Style arms 'A mm. long, 

 slightly pubescent. Achenes oblong, ,'5 mm. long, brown, about LO-ribbed, 

 sparingly hispid. Disk glabrous, pitted. 



Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley (4!) Mrs. Clemens) January, 1900. 



MYRIACTIS Less. 

 Myriactis humilis Merrill sp. now 



An herb 20 cm. high or less, sparingly pilose or nearly glabrous, with 

 long pet ioled deeply and coarsely pinnately lohed Leaves and solitary 

 long peduncled heads aboul 1 mm. in diameter. Branches few, terete, 

 with \'v\v scattered weak hairs. Leaves membranous, '■> to 5 cm. long. 

 1.5 to 3 cm. wide, coarsely lyrately lohed, the Lobes entire or coarsely 

 toothed, apieidate, both surfaces with \'rw scattered weak hairs, the upper 

 leaves much smaller, the uppermost entire and bract like: petioles 1 to 

 ."> cm. long. Peduncles slender, 5 cm. long or less, solitary. Heads 

 5 mm. long, the ray (lowers short, white, the disk flowers erreenish yellow: 



