108 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [VoL L AB 7 9 
MINDANAO: 
San Ramon, Province of Zamboanga, February 1904, 
Hallier. 
19. EPALTES CASS. 
Herbs, with alternate usually decurrent leaves. Heads 
heterogamous, disciform, small, solitary or corymbose; outer 
flowers numerous, pistillate and fertile, its corolla filiform, 
2 to 3-toothed; disk flowers perfect, usually sterile, its tub- 
ular limb 3 to 5-toothed; involucre broad; bracts in many 
series, dry and rigid; receptacle naked, flat or convex or 
raised; anther bases sagittate, its auricles minute and con- 
nate; tails small; style of perfect flower subulate, entire or 
bifid; achenes of pistillate flowers subterete, 5 to 10-ribbed, 
without pappus; those of the perfect flowers usually abort- 
ive, with or without few caducous pappus hairs. 
Species 10; in the tropics of both hemispheres. 
1. E. australis Less. in Linnaea 5; 148, 1831. DC. 
Prod. 5; 462, 1836. Benth. Fl. Austr. 3; 530, 1866. Forbes 
and Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23; 423, 1888.—Annual 
or perennial, branched from the base, diffuse or prostrate. 
Leaves petioled, ovate or cuneate to oblong, entire, toothed 
or almost lyrate, not decurrent. Heads hemispherical, lateral 
sessile or short pedunculate; bracts elliptic, concave, very 
obtuse; numerous female flowers not exceeding the involuere; 
disk flowers mostly sterile; achenes without pappus. 
This species is very little known in the Orient. Spec- 
imens collected in northern Luzon have been so determined. 
Otherwise unknown to us. 
DISTRIBUTION: 
Australia. 
Luzon: 
Loher 3612 and 5086. 
20. BLUMEA DC. 
Annual or perennial, herbaceous or suffrutescent, erect 
herbs, glabrous or woolly, with alternate, usually toothed, 
rarely lobed leaves, and heterogamous heads, corymbosely 
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