154 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. I, Art. 7 
to S. scandens Don, but our specimen has not the climbing 
habit of the latter; is wholly glabrous; the leaves are not 
hastate nor are their petioles auricled; and with fewer heads 
forming a totally different inflorescence. It is probably the 
same as S. scandens Don reported from the Province of 
Lepanto by Vidal Rev. Pl. Vasc. Filip. 164, 1883. 
3. S. luzoniensis Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1, Suppl. 
8; 245, 1906.—Erect, perennial herb, 1 to 1.5 m. high. Stems 
stout, terete, glabrous, branched toward the inflorescence. 
Leaves subcoriaceous, entire or crenately toothed, alternate, 
1 dm. long or the smaller ones less in length, about 2 cm. 
wide, acute, the lower surface somewhat paler, its margins 
becoming strongly recurved, midvein very prominent beneath, 
the sides reticulately nerved, lanceolate or oblong lanceolate, 
with a 6 to 10 mm. long petiole or the upper cauline 
leaves subsessile. Inflorescence a corymbose panicle, 1 to 2 
em. broad; its branches glabrous, subtended by small foli- 
aceous bracts; peduncles 1 to 2 cm. long, straight, bract- 
eate; heads turbinate, 1.5 cm. high, 1 em. in diameter 
excluding the ligules; involucre 8 mm. long, chiefly 1-seriate 
imbricate; lanceolate bracts brown with yellowish scarious 
margins, acute; basal bracts minute, acuminate, also glabrous; 
ray flowers 6; its ligule oblong, 10 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, 
4-nerved, terminated by 3 blunt teeth, bright yellow; corolla 
of disk flower tubular, 7 mm. long, glabrous, the base tumid, 
the upper one third yellow and tubularly inflated, bearing 
5 minute reflexed segments; anthers slender, 3 mm. long; 
style slightly exerted, 2-cleft, its arms truncate and 1.5 mm. 
in length. 
Luzon: 
Soyoc to Panai, Province Benguet, November 1905, 
Merrill 4791. 
4. S. rubiginosus n. sp.—A_ succulent  suffrutescent 
creeper or subcandent in thickets; branches alternate, densely 
brown pubescent, much branched towards the ends. Leaves 
alternate, the larger ones 6 em. across, 10 em. long includ- 
ing the slender 3 cm. long petiole, usually triangular though 
the smaller ones vary from ovate to even lanceolate, most 
