130 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vou. I, Arr. 7 
obtuse, strigose along the middle; ray flowers pistillate; ligule 
oblong, 1.5 mm. or less in length, white; disk flowers yellow, 
staminate; its corolla 1.5 mm. long, tubular, regularly 5-cleft, 
with acute 1 mm. long lobes; anthers oblong to ovate, acute, 
not tailed at the base; style short, 2-cleft. 
Common in the rain forests above 2,000 meters. The 
only species of this genus thus far known from the Philip- 
pines. 
Luzon: 
Mount Data, Province of Lepanto, November 1905, 
Merrill 4530. 
13. LAGENOPHORA CASS. 
Seapigerous turf forming herbs, with small heterogamously 
rayed heads. Involucre glabrous, its bracts in two series. Ligule 
of the fertile outer flowers white or bluish; disk flowers 
usually perfect, but often sterile; anther bases obtuse, entire; 
style arms of the perfect flowers narrow, flattened, their tips 
triangular; achenes compressed, beaked; pappus wanting. 
Species 13; chiefly in the tropics of the East, one in the 
Sandwich Islands, and one in South America. 
1. L. billardieri Cass. Dict. Sc. Nat. 25; 111, 1826. 
DC. Prod. 5; 307, 1836. Benth. Fl. Hongk. 175, 1861: FI. 
Austr. 3; 507, 1866. Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. 3; 248, 1881. Mart. 
in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. 15; 289, 1883. Forbes and Hemsl. 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23; 407, 1888. Ceron Cat. Pl. Herb. 
101, 1892.—4 low erect biennial, from a fascicle of slender 
fleshy roots. Leaves radical, entire or obscurely dentate, ob- 
ovate finely pubescent. Secapes slender, bearing solitary heads. 
Bracts of the involucre scarious, persistent; flowers bluish 
white, falling early; achenes oblong, usually glabrous, the 
margins thickened. 
A rare plant inhabiting well drained grassy slopes of 
high mountains. Easily recognized from all other Philippine 
genera by the deep seated fascicle of fleshy roots. 
DISTRIBUTION: 
In high altitudes of India, Australia, Malay Islands, 
China and Japan. | 
