142 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. I, Art. ? 
toward the apex, broader ones rarely pinnatifid, usually 
glabrous. Heads short pedunculate, generally subpendulous, 
subtended by bracts; bracts glabrous, coriaceous, or only the 
inner ones with scarious margins, persistent; flowers 6 to 10, 
greenish; achene ellipsoid, smooth. 
Our herbarium contains no specimens of this species, 
but since Vidal and Rolfe report it from the Philippines 
we can safely include it. 
DISTRIBUTION: 
Temperate regions of India. 
3. A. absinthium Linn. Sp. Pl. 848, 1753. DC. Prod. 6; 
125, 1837. F. Vil. Nov. App. 119, 1880. Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. 3; 
328, 1881.—Perennial and somewhat woody at the base, hoary 
pubescent. Leaves ovate to obovate, unequally 2 to 3-pinnatifid, 
canescent on both surfaces, the lower ones narrowed into 
winged petioles. Heads pedunculate, hemispheric, in drooping 
secund racemes terminating the branches; outer bracts canes- 
cent, oblong, with narrow scarious margins, inner ones orb- 
icular and broadly scarious; hairs of receptacle long; corollas 
yellow; achene oblong or obovoid. 
Villar reports to have seen this species growing in some 
of the Manila gardens. 
DISTRIBUTION: 
Northern Asia, Affghanistan and westward to the 
Atlantic. 
49. CROSSOSTEPHIUM LESS. 
Woody, generally much branched, with many alternate 
leaves. Heads numerous, usually in a spicate raceme, heteroga- 
mous; involuere campanulate, its bracts in several series; 
receptacle naked and conical; corolla of outer pistillate flowers 
filiform, the central ones fertile and 5-dentate; achene 
angular, whith short unequal paleaceous pappus. 
Species 1; China, Japan and the Malayan region. 
1. C. artemisioides Less. in Linnaea 6; 220, 1831. DC. 
Prod. 6; 127, 1837. Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2; 89,1856. F. Vil. 
Nov. App. 119, 1880. Forbes and Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
