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involucra] bracts 2-seriate, narrowly oblong, obtuse or acute, sparingly 



pilose on the median portion, about 1 mm. long, 1 nun. wide. Ray 

 flowers pistillate, ligulate, 2 or more seriate, the ligule oblong about 

 1.5 mm. long or less; style short, 2-cleft at the apex. Disk flowers 

 greenish yellow, tubular, hermaphrodite. Corolla 1.5 nun. long, regularly 

 5-cleft, the lobes 1 nun. long, acute. Anthers oblong-ovate, acute, the 

 base obtuse. Style equaling the corolla, 2-clei't at the apex. Aebenes 

 compressed, glabrous, oblong, the margins thickened, 3 mm. long. 1.2 mm. 

 wide, tipped with a short somewhat glandular ring. Pappus 0. 



Luzon, District of Lepanto, Mount Data (4530 Merrill) November, 1905. Com- 

 mon in the damp, mossy forests at 2,100 in. and above. The first species of the 

 genua to be reported from the Philippines. 



SENECIO Linn. 



Senecio luzoniensis .Merrill sp. nor. 



An erect, stout, glabrous, simple or sparingly branched herb about 

 1 m. high, with oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous, rather obscurely irregularly 

 crenate leaves and terminal corymbose many flowered panicles, the heads 



about 1 to 1..'! em. long, 1.5 cm. or more in diameter, including the rays. 

 Stems terete, linn, glabrous, reddish brown. Leaves 10 to 15 cm. long. 

 1.5 to 2.5 cm. wide, glabrous, strongly reticulate veined, the upper ones 

 sessile or subsessile. the lower ones petiolate, the petiole 1 cm. long, base 

 acute, apex usually long acuminate. Panicles about 15 cm. long, nearly 

 as wide, the branches ascending, the bracts and bracteoles linear, the 

 primary branches subtended by linear 5 to I cm. long leaf-like bracts, the 

 bracteoles usually about 2 or ;> mm. long. Heads about 25-flowered; 

 involucra] bracts about 13, 1-seriate, imbricate, free, oblong-lanceolate, 

 7 to S mm. long. 1.5 to 2 mm. wide, acute glabrous, membranous 

 margined, a few short outer bracts at the base. Ray Bowers about (i 

 in each head, yellow, the tube slender, -1 to 5 mm. long, the ligule oblong, 

 10 to 11 mm. long. 3.5 mm. wide, strongly 4-nerved, obtuse, the apex 

 with three small blunt teeth. Disk (lowers yellow, the corolla tubular, 

 inflated above, about 8 mm. long, 5-lobed, the lobes about 1.3 mm. long, 

 oblong, blunt. Anthers slender, about 3 mm. long, blunt at the base. 

 Style 2-cleft, the arms about 1.5 mm. long, truncate. Achenes about I 

 mm. long, less than 1 mm. thick obscurely 10-striate. glabrous, narrowly 

 oblong. Disk paleaceous. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Suyoc to Pauai (4701 Merrill) November 7. 1005. 



A stout erect herb growing in grass lands on high ridges near the lower limit* 

 of the mossy forest at about 2.1.10 m. 



SOLIDAGO Linn. 



Solidago virgaurea Linn. Sp. l'l. (17~>.'5), S80. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet. Baguio to Ambuklao (4304 Merrill) October 24. 

 I !»()."). Widely distributed in the region of l'itnis insularis Endl., 1,500 to 2. (UK) m. 

 North America. Europe, and temperate Asia soutli to Formosa. 



