AvavusT 16, 1906] MANUAL OF THE PHILIPPINE COMPOSITAE 101 
7. EUPATORIUM LINN. 
Herbs or shrubs, with opposite or alternate leaves and 
homogamous corymbose heads. Involucre ovoid, its bracts 
imbricated in 2 or more series; receptacle convex, naked; 
corollas all equal, slender, 5-lobed; anthers appendiculate at 
the apex; achenes 5-angled, truncate; pappus copious, capillary. 
Species about 400; chiefly American, five or six occur in 
Europe and Asia and two in Africa. 
Herbaceous. 
1. E. lindleyanum. 
Shrubby. 
Leaves ovate, cordate at the base. 
2. E. toppingianum. 
Leaves lanceolate, obtuse at the base. 
3. E. sambucifolium. 
1. A. lindleyanum DC. Prod. 5; 180, 1836. Benth. Fl. 
Hongk. 172, 1861. F. Vil. Nov. App. 114, 1880. Vid. Phan. 
Cuming. Filip. 121, 1885: Rev. Pl. Vasc. Filip. 161, 1886. Forbes 
and Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23; 404, 1888. Hayata 
in Journ. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, 18; Art. 8, 9, 1904. E. reevesii Wall. 
in F. Vil. Nov. App. 114, 1880.—An erect or subscandent per- 
ennial herb, with opposite, sessile, lanceolate, coarsely dentate, 
glabrous or only sparsely pubescent leaves, which are 3-nerved 
from near the base. Heads corymbose, the peduncles short, pub- 
escent; braets subglabrous, acute; achenes glabrous, black; 
pappus copious, yellowish white. 
DISTRIBUTION: 
Manchuria, Japan, China and Australia. 
PHILIPPINES: 
1836-41, Cuming 1349. 
Luzon: 
Dupax, Province of Nueva Vizcaya, May 1902, Merrill 225. 
2. E.toppingianum n. sp. A subscandent shrub; stems 
branching toward the top, spreading, forming more or less 
