94 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. I, ART 
7. VW. vialis DC. Prod. 5; 25, 1836. Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2; 
12, 1856.—A slender, erect, branched perennial, 30 to 50 cm. high, 
with long peduncled heads, and linear, more or less cinereous 
pubescent leaves. Stems and branches pubescent or puber- 
ulous. Leaves 1.5 to 3 cm. long, 4 mm. wide or less, entire, 
obtuse, sessile or nearly so. Heads about 5 mm. long, the 
bracts of the involucre lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent; 
achenes striate, pubescent, about 1 mm. long; the pappus 
white, 4 mm. long. 
This species grows in open grass lands of the pine region 
at 1600 meters. It was originally desgribed from specimens 
collected in Madagascar, and was later reported from Java 
by Miquel. Our specimens do not agree well with De 
Candolle’s diagnosis, and if distinct I propose the name 
V. benguetensis. 
Luzon: 
Baguio, Province of Benguet, June 1904, Elmer 6584. 
Bagabag, Province of Nueva Viscaya, June 1902, 
Merrill 159. 
8. V. cinerea (Linn.) Less. Linnaea, 4; 291, 1829. DC. 
Prod. 5; 24, 1836. Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2; 11, 1856. Benth. Fl. 
Hongk. 169, 1861: Fl. Austr. 3; 459 1866: F. Vil. Nov. 
App. 113, 1880. Naves in Bico: Fl. Filip. ed. 3; t. 280, 
1880. Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. 3; 233, 1881. Mart. in Nuov. Giorn. 
Bot. Ital. 15; 286, 1883. Vid. Phan. Cuming. Filip. 160, 1886: 
Rev. Pl. Vase. Filip. 160, 1886. Forbes and Hemsl. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. Bot. 23; 401, 1888. Hayata in Journ. Coll. Sci. 
Tokyo, 18; Art. 8, 5, 1904. King and Gamb. Mat. Fl. Malay. ` 
Penin. 16; 27, 1905. Conyza cinerea Linn. Sp. Pl. 862, 
1753. Vernonia cinerea rotundifolia ( Willd.) Walp. Nov. Act. 
Nat. Cur. 19; Suppl. 1; 253, 1843.—A slender, erect, branched, 
herbaceous, usually hoary pubescent annual, 15 to 35 cm. 
high. Leaves mostly 2 to 4 em. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, pet- 
ioled, ovate to ovate lanceolate, obtuse or acute, subentire 
or toothed. Heads small, about 20-flowered, in loose cor- 
ymbs; flowers purplish, the bracts of the involucre linear 
or lanceolate pubescent, the tips acuminately awned; ache- © 
nes about 1 mm. long, pubescent; pappus about 3 mm. long, _ 
the outer hairs very short. 
