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flowers slightly longer and usually curved; pappus of both 
kinds of flowers similar, 5 mm. in length, dull white and 
finely scabrous. 
Type specimen 6247, A. D. E. Elmer collected near an 
exposed cliff on the north side of Mount Santo Tomas, 
Province of Benguet, Luzon, May, 1904, at an altitude of 
2,500 meters. 
2. S. confusus n. sp.—A perennial herb, creeping or 
reclining upon thickets; slender stems and main branches 
the size of a small finger, striate, smooth and green; younger 
banches distant and alternate. Leaves glabrous, thin, mem- 
branous, early falling, linearly triangular, 4 to 6 cm. long, 1 
em. wide at the usually acute base, subentire or irregularly 
dentate below the middle, apiculate toward the long acum- 
inate apex, midvein prominent, lateral veins reticulate; petiole 
7 mm. long, slightly expanded at the base. Inflorescence panic- 
ulate or subcorymbose; peduncles glabrous, setaceously bracteo- 
late, dichotemously branched; pedicels also glabrous, 1 cm. long; 
heads few, distant, 8 mm. long, fully as wide across the top, tur- 
binately or subcampanulately spreading; involucral bracts mostly 
in one series, glabrous, the longer ones acute, 3-nerved, with nar- 
row whitish margins, the few basal ones similar to the 
pedunculate bracts; ray flowers not numerous, bright yellow; 
ligulate 10 mm. in length; tube 3 mm. long; ligule proper 
4 mm. long, narrowly elliptic, 3-nerved, apex rounded or 
obscurely 2 to 3-toothed; the 2-cleft style arms barely exerted; 
disk flowers 7 mm. long, tubular, terminating into 1 mm. 
long acute and turbinately spreading segments; anthers nar- 
rowly linear, apex acute, basifixed, obscurely auricled; fila- 
ments inserted upon the throat, nearly twice as long as the 
anthers, with a conspicuous knob like expansion immedi- 
ately beneath the anthers; achenes nearly equal, slender, 3 
mm. long, set with white hispid hairs along the 3 to 5 
ridges, its apex bearing a conspieuous rim like projection; 
style cleft into recurved arms, apex rounded; pappus T 
silky white, becoming easily detached. 
This characteristic species 5871, A. D. E. Elmer was 
collected along the edges of shrubberies near streams at Ba- 
guio, Province of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1904, It is related 
