Aveust 16, 1906] MANUAL OF THE PHILIPPINE COMPOSTAE 89 
Species about 450; chiefly tropical American. 
Large shrubs or small trees. 
Heads 32-flowered. 
1. V. philippinensis. 
Heads 5 to 6-fowered. 
Leaves glabrous. 
2. V. arborea. 
Leaves pubescent beneath. 
3. V. vidalii. 
Trailing or subscandent shrubs. 
Heads 5-flowered. 
4. V. lenticellata. 
Heads 20-flowered. 
5. V. cuneata. 
Herbs. 
Divaricately branched; campanulate heads 1 cm. in 
diameter. 
6. V. chinensis. 
Slender herbs; subcylindric heads less than 1 cm. 
across. 
Perennial; leaves linear. 
7. V. vials. 
Annual; leaves ovate to lanceolate. 
8. V. cinerea. 
1. V. philippinensis Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 21; 
312, 1884. Vid. Rev. Pl. Vasc. Filip. 160, 1886: Phan. Cuming. 
Filip. 121, 1885.—A shrub or small tree, with ferruginous tomen- 
tose, striate and terete branches. Leaves elliptical to oblong, 
acuminate, petiolate, the base cuneate, the upper surface pub- 
erulous the lower surface tomentose. Panicle terminal, ample; 
heads peduneulate, about 32-flowered; involucre globose, the 
scales ovate, the inner ones oblong, obtuse; achenes pubescent, 
10-striate; the pappus hairs brown, twice as long as the 
involucre. 
