AvausT 16, 1906] MANUAL OF THE PHILIPPINE COMPOSITAE 131 
Luzon: 
Baguio, Province of Benguet, June 1904, Elmer 6583. 
14. ASTER LINN. 
Perennial or rarely annual herbs, with alternate leaves, 
and corymbose or paniculate, rarely solitary inflorescence. 
Heads heterogamous, the ray flowers white, blue or purple, 
never yellow; involucre turbinate or hemispheric, its bracts 
variously imbricated; receptacle generally faveolate; anthers 
obtuse and entire at the base; style arms flattened, their 
appendages subulate; achenes nerved; pappus bristles numerous. 
Species about 250; mostly in North America and Central 
America, only a few in the old world. 
Stems and branches sparsely leafy; leaves 2 to 3 cm. 
long, 1 to 2 cm. wide. 
1. A. philippinensis. 
Stems and branches very leafy; leaves larger. 
2. A. luzonensis. 
1. A. philippinensis Moore in Journ. Bot. 43; 138, 1905. — 
Perennial, with slender erect branches. Leaves petiolate, 
ovate lanceolate, acute, base rotund, subcoriaceous, scabrous, 
entire or dentate toward the apex, 2 to 3 cm. long, 1 to 2 
cm. wide. Heads heterogamous, minute, numerous and form- 
ing corymbs; ligulate flowers about 10, 3-toothed, white; 
involucral bracts in several series, faintly puberulous, oblong, 
obtuse; receptacle convex, faveolate; achene obscurely compres- 
sed, without ribs hispidly pilose; pappus hairs unequal, 
dirty white. 
Its author writes “A very distinct species, easily known 
by the slender habit coupled with the small leaves and 
small Vernonia like heads. Highlands from 1600 to 2300 
meters." 
Luzon: 
Province of Lepanto, Whitehead. 
2. A. luzonensis n. sp.—A perennial, tufted, herbaceous 
species 1 m. tall; stem and branches terete, short pubescent 
