' AvausT 16, 1906] MANUAL OF THE PHILIPPINE COMPOSITAE 97 
MINDANAO: 
Davao, March 1904, Copeland 572. 
2. E. scaber Linn, Sp. Pl. 614, 1755: DC. Prod. 5; 86, 
1836.  Blco. Fl. Filip. ed. 1; 634, 1837: ed. 2, 441, 1845. Miq. 
Fl. Ind. Bat. 2; 21, 1856. Benth. Fl. Hongk. 170, 1861: FI. 
Austr. 3; 461, 1866. F. Vil. Nov. App. 114, 1880. Hook. Fl. 
Brit. Ind 3; 242, 1881. Mart. in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. 15; 
287,1883. Vid. Phan. Cuming. Filip. 121, 1885: Rev. PI. 
Vasc. Filip. 160, 1886. Forbes and Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
Bot. 23; 402, 1888. Hayata in Journ. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, 18; Art. 
8, 6, 1904. King and Gamb. Mat. Fl. Malay. Penin. 16; 28, 
1905.—A stout dichotomously branched herb, the stems and 
branches rigid, bearing few much reduced leaves, the basal 
leaves spreading, forming a rosette, the radical leaves obovate 
to oblong, strigose, obtuse, irregularly crenate. Heads broad, 
subtended by broad cordate and leaf like bracts; involucral 
bracts strigose, acute; corolla white to pale violet; achenes 
scabrid; pappus bristles slender, uniform. 
DISTRIBUTION: 
Tropical America and Asia, Africa, Australia and Japan. 
Luzon: 
Bauang, Province of Union, February 1904, Elmer 5556. 
Dinalupihan, Province of Bataan, February 1903, Mer- 
rill 1553. 
Pagbilao, Province of Tayabas, April 1908, Merrill 1962. 
Antipolo, Province of Rizal, February 1903, Merrill 1295. 
MINDORO: 
Calapan, January 1903, Merrill 1265. 
3. E. mollis H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. Pl. 4; 26, 1820. 
DC. Prod. 5; 86, 1836. F. Vil. Nov. App. 114, 1880. E. serrata 
Bico. Fl. Filip. ed. 1; 635, 1837. —An erect herb with large scatter- 
ed cauline leaves, widely branching above the middle. Stems and 
slender peduncles covered with fine, rather long, yellowish hairs. 
Leaves mostly below the middle of the stem, not forming a ros- 
ette, alternate, scattered, lanceolate, crenately toothed, acute. 
