Aveust 16, 1906] MANUAL or THE PHILIPPINE COMPOSITAE 
Luzon: 
Mount Tonglon, Province of Benguet, November 1905, 
Merrill 4832. 
Suyoe to Panai, Province of Benguet, November 1905, 
Merrill 4688. 
Mount Data, Province of Lepanto, November 1905, 
Merrill 4512. 
Ill. ASTEREAE. 
Leaves usually alternate. Heads with the flowers all 
similar, or the outer ligulate. Receptacle always naked. 
Disk flowers yellow; ray flowers yellow, white or purple, 
Anthers subentire at the base. Style arms flattened or 
plano convex, all or those of the disk flowers terminated 
by a cone. 
Flowers all yellow; those of the ray ligulate. 
9, SOLIDAGO. 
Flowers all yellow, rayless; pappus hardly any. 
Receptacle usually elongate; achenes with a thick- 
ened border. 
10. DICHROCEPHALA. 
Receptacle conic or convex; achenes with a terminal. 
toothed or bristly ring. 
11. GRANGEA. 
Ray flowers pistillate, ligulate, never yellow; disk flowers 
yellow; pappus none or very short. 
Herbs with many branches. 
12. MYRIACTIS. 
Stemless herbs. 
13. LAGENOPHORA. 
Ray flowers pistillate, ligulate, never yellow; disk 
flowers yellow; pappus hairs long, copious. 
14. ASTER. 
Ray flowers very slender, tubular, or with very short 
ligules, and disk flowers yollow; pappus copious or scanty. 
Tall or climbing shrubs; heads very small; pappus 
long. 
