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reddish brown, subpersistent, 8 mm. long, minutely scabrous. 
much spreading in the mature state. 
This distinct species of the Moluccas is reported by 
Villar from the island of Balabac. 
6. V. chinensis (Linn.) Less. Linnaea, 6; 105, 1831. 
Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2; 18, 1856. Benth. Fl. Hongk. 169, 1861. 
ZO. Nov. App. 113, 1880. Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. 3; 285, 
1881. Vid. Phan. Cuming. Filip. 121, 1885: Rev. Pl. Vasc. 
Filip. 160, 1886. Forbes and Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
Bot. 23; 401, 1888. Hayata in Journ. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, 18; 
. Art. 8, 4, 1904. King and Gamb. Mat. Fl. Malay. Penin. 16; 
26, 1905.  Cyanopsis pubescens DC. Prod. 5; 69, 1836. Serratula 
multiflora Blco. Fl. Filip. ed. 1; 617, 1837. Conyza chinensis 
Linn. Sp. Pl. 1208, 1753.—An erect annual, divaricately 
branched herb, 1 m. high or less, puberulous or tomentose, 
the branches slender, the leaves sessile or petioled, the pale 
purple flowers in 20 to 30-flowered heads. Leaves ovate el- 
liptie to elliptic lanceolate, 2 to 7 em. long, usually obtuse 
and minutely apiculate, membranous, pale and densely tom- 
entose beneath. Heads many flowered, subglobose, the bracts | 
pubescent, lanceolate, acuminately awned; receptacle pitted; 
corolla glabrous; achenes 4 to 5-ribbed, glabrous or glandular, 
about 2 mm. long, the pappus white. 
DISTRIBUTION: 
India, Malayan Peninsula, China and Japan. 
Luzon: 
Manila, January 1904, Elmer 5514. 
Atimonan, Province of Tayabas, August 1904, Whit- 
ford 666. 
Mount Mariveles, Province of Bataan, April 1904, 
Whitford. 
Los Bafios, Province of Laguna, 1903, Hallier. 
PARAGUA: 
E-wi-ig River, February 1903, Merrill 703. 
la PANAY: 
c January 1904, Copeland 117. 
