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bases obtuse; style arms long, lanceolate; achenes angled; 
pappus hairs many, unequal. 
Species 9; chiefly in Africa and southern Asia. 
1. M. volubilis DC. Prod. 5; 320, 1836. Mig. Fl. Ind. 
Bat. 2; 24, 1856. Hook. Fl, Brit. Ind. 8; 256, 1881. Mart. in 
Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. 15; 290, 1883. Vid. Rev. Pl. Vase. 
Filip. 161, 1886. Forbes and Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 
23; 419, 1888. Merr. For. Bu. Bull. 1; 55, 1903. Hayata in 
Journ. Coll. Sei. Tokyo, 18; Art. 8, 19,1904. King and Gamb. 
Mat. Fl. Malay. Penin. 16; 31, 1905.—A glabrous climbing 
shrub with petioled elliptic ovate membranous leaves, with 
5 to 6 pairs of nerves. Heads 4 mm. long, the bracts of 
the involucre linear, obtuse, in many series; receptacle knob 
like, pitted; achenes compressed, 4-angled; pappus much ex- 
ceeding the achenes, persistent, reddish brown. 
DISTRIBUTION: 
Japan, Malay, India, tropical Africa and Madagascar. 
Luzon: 
Sablan, Province of Benguet, April 1904, Elmer 6135. 
MINDANAO: 
Province of Davao, March 1902, Ahern 851. 
Mount Apo, May 1903, DeVore and Hoover 307. 
16. CONYZA LESS. 
Herbs with alternate entire, toothed or cut leaves, and 
heterogamous corymbose or panicled, rarely solitary heads. 
Involucre campanulate, its bracts in two series; receptacle naked, 
pitted or fimbriate; outer pistillate flowers filiform, 2 to 3-toothed, 
rarely ligulate, the inner ones fertile, yellow, 5-toothed; 
anther base obtuse, entire; style arms of the outer flowers 
flattened, with long or short tips; achenes compressed; pap- 
pus slender. 
Species about 50; throughout the tropics. 
|l C. viscidula Wall. Cat. 3006, DC. Prod. 5; 383, 1836. 
Bleo. Fl. Filip. ed. 1; 628, 1837. Benth. Fl. Austr. 3; 496, 
