136 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [VoL. T, ARTT 
43. TAGETES LINN. 
Herbs, much branched, 3 to 5 dm. high. Leaves op- 
posite, entire or pinnate. Heads large and solitary, or smaller 
and corymbose; involucral bracts in one series, united in a 
toothed cup or tube; receptacle flat, without scales; ligules 
of female ray flowers yellow or orange red; disk flowers 
tubular, 5-toothed; anther bases obtuse; style arms flattened, 
obtuse, usually hirsute; achenes linear, flattened; pappus 
scales or setae unequal. 
Species 20; chiefly tropical American. 
l. T. erecta Linn. Sp. Pl. 887, 1753. DC. Prod. 5; 643, 
1836. Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2; 84, 1856. F. Vil. Nov. App. 
119, 1880. Naves in Fl. Filip. ed. 3; t. 404 bis, 1880. 7. 
patula Linn. in Blco. Fl. Filip. ed. 1; 6032, 1887: ed. 2; 
440, 1845. F. Vil. Nov. App. 119, 1880.—4An introduced 
species, commonly grown as an ornament. Leaves glabrous, 
pinnate, the linear lobes entire or sharply toothed. Heads 
erect, solitary, strongly scented, upon rigid peduncles, much 
exceeding the leaves; involucre cylindric, glabrous, united, 
crowned with short dentate teeth; ligules showy, orange 
red; tubular corollas of the same color, with its acute seg- 
ments hairy on the upper surface; style arms slender, 
hairy tips usually recurved; achenes flattened, with wing 
like margins; pappus of 3 to 5 obtuse and unequal 
palea but occasionally one of them is awn like, usually 
united below the middle. 
DISTRIBUTION: 
Native to Mexico, and reported from Java. 
Luzon: 
Laguimanoe, Province of Tayabas, March 1905, Merrill 
4019. 
44. POROPHYLLUM VAIL, 
Herbs, with alternate undivided leaves. Heads solitary, 
upon erect peduncles, homogamous, many flowered; corol- 
las all discoid, slender, the short campanulate limb 5- 
toothed, yellow or purplish; involucre uniseriate; its 5 to 9 
bracts oblong linear, acuminate, more or less united at the 
