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LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. I, AE. 
Ind. 36, 1876. Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2; 48, 1856. Hook. Fl. Brit. 
Ind. 3; 245, 1881. Forbes and Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 
23; 406, 1888.—Annual or biennial herb. Stems erect, 1 to 2 dm. 
high, hispidly white pubescent, leaty; branches straight, rather 
rigid, ascending or divarieate, similarly pubescent. Leaves 
oblong or obovate in outline, the smaller ones coarsely 
serrate, the larger ones lyrately lobed, sessile or the basal 
leaves petiolate, densely hoary hispid pubescent on both 
sides, lobes usually rounded and largest toward the apex. 
Heads solitary upon stout leaf bracteate peduncles, 6 mm. 
in diameter, globose; receptacle short conical, roughly pit- 
ted; flowers dense, numerous, purplish; the ray flowers short, 
4-segmented; disk achenes 1.5 mm. long, smooth, compressed, 
yellowish green, bearing at the apex the short subpersist- 
ent purplish white corolla. 
Quite rare, and only recently reported from dry grassy 
ridges in the pine forests of northern Luzon at an altitude 
of 2,000 meters. 
DISTRIBUTION: 
China and British India, also in Africa. 
LUZON: 
Mount Data, Province of Lepanto, November 1905, 
Merrill 4533. 
il. GRANGEA ADANS. 
Prostrate or suberect villous herbs, with alternate pin- 
natifid leaves. Flowers of the globose heads yellow, rayless; 
the outer ones pistillate and fertile, those of the disk per- 
fect; involucre broadly campanulate; receptacle naked, convex. 
Species 1 to 2; Asiatic and African. 
1. G. maderaspatana Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. 2; 
825, 1810. DC. Prod. 5; 375, 1836. Mig. Fl. Ind Bat. 2; 
38, 1856.  F. Vil. Nov. App. 115, 1880. Hook. Fl. Brit. 
Ind. 3; 247, 1881. Vid. Rev. Pl. Vasc. Filip. 161, 1886. 
Forbes and Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23; 407, 1888. 
Hayata in Journ. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, 18; Art. 8, 12,1904. Perdicum 
tomentosa Bleo. Fl. Filip. ed. 1; 630, 1837. -A postrate herb 
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