Aveust 16, 1906] MANUAL OF THE PHILIPPINE COMPOSITAE 85 
with marginal nerves; the second ligulate, the lobes elongate 
and connate into a strap shaped or elliptic ligule. Stamens 
4 to 5, inserted within the corolla tube; filaments usually 
free; anthers basifixed, usually connate; connective produced 
upwards; cells simple or tailed at the base; pollen sub- 
globose, rough. Ovary 1-celled; style slender, bifid; arms 
(sometimes connate) linear, subterete, naked or externally 
pubescent or tipped by pubescent cones, margins stigmatic; 
ovule solitary, basal, erect, anatropous; nucleous with one 
coat. Fruit an achene, dry, indehiscent. Seed erect, its testa 
membranous; albumen none; embryo straight; cotyledons 
plano convex. 
KEYS FOR THE TRIBES. 
Flowers not all ligulate. 
Perfect flowers with regular corollas. 
Stigmatic lines at the base of the stigma or below the middle. 
Stigmas filiform or subulate, hispidulous. 
L VERNONIEAE. 
Stigmas more or less clavate, papillose puberulent, 
H. EUPATORIEAE. 
Stigmatie lines extending to the tip of the stigma or to 
the appendages. 
Anthers without elongated appendages at the tip. 
Anther saes tailed at the base. 
IV. INULEAE. 
Anther sacs not tailed at the base. 
Receptacle naked. 
Bracts of involucre well imbricated. 
Stigmas of the perfect flowers with 
terminal appendages. 
Hl. ASTEREAE. 
Stigmas of the perfect flowers with 
truncate or hairy or papillose tips. 
Braets of the involucre herb- 
aceous. 
