AvcvusT 16, 1906] MANUAL OF THE PHILIPPINE COMPOSITAE 103 
6 to 9 em. long, 1.5 to 2.5 em. wide, lanceolate in outline 
or narrowly ovate to oblong, crenately serrate except at the 
rounded base and along the acuminate apex, short brown 
pubescent on both surfaces but especially on its lower lighter 
colored side; petiole 1 cm. long, similarly pubescent. Inflor- 
escence terminal, panieulately corymbose, its lower branches 
from the axils of the upper leaves; peduncles divaricate and 
branched above the middle; pedicels rather short, as well as 
the peduncles subtended by dense rusty pubescent bracts; 
heads turbinate, 5 mm. long, usually 6-flowered, rather dense 
and approximate; involucral bracts 10, unequal, mostly gla- 
brous except along the median line, obscurely 1 to 3-nerved, 
acute, brownish yellow, loosely spreading when mature; flower 
6 mm. in length; corolla 4 mm. long, slenderly tapering 
from the base, terminating into 5 acuminate segments; the 
5 stamens included; anthers linear, 2 mm. long, apex hyaline 
and obtuse, base truncate; filaments shorter than the anthers, 
separately inserted on the corolla tube below the middle, 
usually clavate immediately beneath the anthers; style barely 
exerting the corolla, cleft to below the middle; stigma lobes 
little compressed, papillose nearly to the base, the sides as 
well as the 5 angles sparsely tubercled; pappus ample, 3 
mm. long, scabrous, yellowish white. 
Type specimen 6535, A. D. E. Elmer, near the summit 
of Mount Santo Tomas, Province of Benguet, Luzon, June, 1904. 
DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
Eupatorium ayapana Vent. and E. luzonensis Llanos are 
synonyms of the Mexican E. triplinerve Vent. Reported to 
become extinct in our Archipelago. 
8. MIKANIA WILLD. 
Shrubs or twining herbs with opposite leaves, and spicate, 
racemose or paniculate inflorescence. Involucre turbinate, its, 
4 bracts in one series, but often with a smaller outer 
series; corolla all equal, with a 5-toothed campanulate limb; 
achenes truncate, angled; pappus copious often connate at 
the base. 
Species about 50; all American but one. 
