92 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPINE BOTANY [Vor. h Arg 
oblanceolate, apex pubescent, acute or obtuse, margins finely 
pubescent; flowers all alike, tubular, pink, never more than 
5-flowered; corolla 8 mm. long, tubular or in the immature 
state fusiform, divided nearly half way down into 5 rather 
straight acuminate segments; stamens barely exceeding the 
corolla; anthers 3 mm. long, linear, apex hyaline and acute, 
base strongly sagittate but not tailed; slender filaments 1 
mm. long, inserted upon the tube below the middle; pap- 
pus dense, scabrous, dark yellowish brown, intermixed with 
a few shorter basal ones; achene obovoid to cuneate, glandular 
and sparsely strigose, obscurely 10-costate. 
Type specimen 6564, A. D. E. Elmer, collected near the 
summit of Mount Santo Tomas, Province of Benguet, Luzon, 
June, 1904. This species is closely related to V. scandens 
DC., but is never more than 5-flowered; the achenes are 
not compressed and only obscurely ribbed while the pappus 
is not at all red. Straggling or subscandent at 2500 meters. 
Rare. Recently also collected on Mount Banahao. 
5. V.cuneata Less. in Linnaea 644, 1831. F. Vil. 
Nov. App. 114, 1880. Decaneurum cuneata DC. Prod. 5; 
67, 1886. Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2; 21, 1856.—4 scandent shrub, 
with the ultimate branches puberulous and dark brown. Leaves 
alternate, coriaceous, glabrous on both sides, the revolute marg- 
ins entire or apiculate, lanceolate to oblanceolate, acute or 
obtuse, the base cuneate, with a 5 mm. long petiole, paler 
beneath, reticulately nerved. Infrutescence terminal and sub- 
terminal; heads campanulate, 7 mm. in diameter, 1.5 em. in 
length including only the pappus, usually 3 to 7 paniculately 
clustered; peduncles 1 to 2 cm. long, short brown pubes- 
cent, tumid and minutely bracteate toward the apex; invol- 
uere many seriate, campanulate but ultimately spreading, 
persistent; bracts acute, subcoriaceous, puberulent and pub- 
escent, the inner ones linear, 1 mm. wide; receptacle glab- 
rous, brown except at the place where the achene is attached; 
achene subterete or slightly angled, sparsely pubescent, 8 to 
10-costate gradually tapering from the base to the apex, 
4 mm. in length, 1 mm. in diameter, the outer ones usually 
curved, base with a straw colored knob, apex with a blackish 
 truneate point, about 20 to 30 in each head; pappus equal, - : 
