AvavusT 16, 1906] MANUAL OF THE PHILIPPINE COMPOSITAE 145 
Since the name Gynura purpurascens has been previously 
used by DeCandolle it is invalidated for Vidal’s species, 
and accordingly this new name is proposed. 
Luzon: 
Mount Arayat, Province of Pampanga, October 1904, 
Merrill 3937. 
2. G. latifolium (Moore) Elm. Crassocephalum latifolium 
Moore in Journ. Bot. 43; 141, 1905.—Scandent, glabrous. 
Leaves broadly ovate, acute, base broadly truncate, rarely 
with obscure cordate margins, unequally lobed, not at all 
dendate, the lobes acutely or obtusely dentate, thin but some- 
what fleshy; petioles elongated with 2 auriculate stipules at 
the base. Heads homogamous, campanulate, solitary from the 
axils or in terminal corymbs; peduncles very long, bract- 
eate; involucral bracts linear lanceolate, obtuse, 2 to 6-nerv- 
ed, basal ones short and very narrow; flower exerted, with 
slender corolla tube deeply lobed; achenes rough, 5-striate, 
glabrous; pappus bristles scabrous, white. 
NEGROS: 
Collected by Whitehead. 
3. G. clementis Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1, Suppl. 
3; 244, 1906.—Herbaceous, subscandent. Stems subterete, its 
branches covered with short crisp brown hairs. Leaves 6 
cm. long including the 1 cm. long petiole, 3 cm. wide, oblong 
to elliptic obovate, obtuse, cuneate at the base, coarsely den- 
tate especially around the apex, subcoriaceous, equally strigose 
pubescent on both: sides, alternate; stipule similar to the 
leaves in texture and pubescence, orbicular, larger ones 1 
em. in diameter, subentire. Peduncles slender, terminal or 
from the upper axils, brown pubescent, bearing toward the 
apex 5 to 9 heads; pedicels slenderly flexuose, pubescent, 
bracteate; heads 1 cm. long, turbinate, about 30-flowered; 
involuere 2-seriate; the basal bracts short and linear; the 
upper ones equal, 7 mm. long, with purple tips and straw 
colored membranous margins, acute, short brown pubescent 
on the exposed outer surface; slender tubular corolla 1 cm 
long, thickened at the base, the apex deep purple and sub- 
campanulate; segments 5, narrowly acute, 2 mm. long; an- 
