Aveust 16, 1906] MANUAL OF THE PHILIPPINE COMPOSITAE 143 
Bot. 23; 440, 1888. Ceron Cat. Pl. Herb. 103, 1892. Hayata 
in Journ. Coll. Sci. Tokyo 18; Art. 18, 24, 1904.— Perennial, 
with canescent stems. Leaves densely canescent on both sides, 
long attenuate, obtusely 3-lobed at apex, crowded at the ends 
of the sterile twigs, the older ones deciduous Heads erect, 
pedunculate, in leaf axils or subtended by entire leaf like 
bracts; bracts densely lanose pubescent, unequal; outer flowers 
in a few rows only; style arms strongly recurved; achenes 
obovoid, conspicuously ribbed; palea of the pappus acute, 
persistently terminating the hyaline ribs. 
DISTRIBUTION: 
Japan and China. 
PHILIPPINES: 
1894-5 Marave 177. 
MARINDUQUE: 
1903, collector unknown. 
VIN. SENECIONEAE. 
Leaves usually alternate. Heads heterogamous, rayed or 
disciform. Involucral bracts usually uniseriate and subequal, 
with a few short outer ones at the base, rarely many seriate. 
Disk flowers yellow; the rays usually yellow. Anther cells 
obtuse below or with two short points, rarely tailed. Style 
arms of perfect flowers truncate or appendaged. Pappus of 
fine hairs. 
Heads homogamous. 
Bracteoles small or leaf like. 
50. GYNURA. 
Bracteoles obsolete. 
51. EMILIA. 
Heads heterogamous. 
Flowers yellow or purple. 
52. SENECIO. 
Flowers pink or whitish. 
53. ERECHTHITES. 
