© » Aveust 16, 1906] MANUAL OF THE PHILIPPINE COMPOSTAE 87 
1. ETHULIA LINN. 
Branched herbs with alternate serrate leaves, and small 
homogamous corymbose heads. Involucre subcampanulate; 
bracts many seriate, imbricate; receptacle flat, naked; corollas 
all tubular, equal, slender, regular, the limb campanulate, 
the lobes narrow; anthers obtusely auricled; style arms sub- 
ulate; achenes glandular between the 4 to 6 prominent ribs; 
pappus none. 
Species 2; one in Java and the following: 
1. E. conyzoides Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2; 1171, 1762-63. 
DC. Prod. 5; 12, 1836. Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2; 8, 1856. Hook. 
Fl. Brit. Ind. 3; 227, 1881.--An erect glabrous or puberulous 
leafy annual, with narrowly or broadly elliptic to lanceolate, 
acuminate, glandular dotted serrate leaves, and numerous 
short or long peduncled heads, the flowers purplish or red- 
dish. Leaves 5 to 12 cm. long, narrowed and entire at 
the base, acute or short acuminate, rather coarsely serrate. 
Heads about 6 mm. long, many flowered. 
This species is here reported for the first time from the 
Philippines and was discovered near the summit of Mount 
Santo Tomas at an approximate altitude of 2500 meters. 
DISTRIBUTION: 
Sunda Archipelago, Africa, Madagascar and India. 
LUZON: 
Mount Santo Tomas, Province of Benguet, June 1904, 
Elmer 6560. 
2. CENTHRATHERUM CASS. 
Erect or diffusely branched herbs, rarely shrubby, with 
alternate and petioled toothed leaves, and usually solitary, 
medium sized homogamous heads. Involucre: subhemispheric; 
bracts many seriate, the inner dry or scarious, the outer 
herbaceous, often leafy; receptacle flat, naked or pitted; 
corollas all tubular, equal, slender, the limb campanulate, 
the lobes 5, rather narrow; anthers obtusely auricled; style 
