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loosely branched pedunculate cymes; outer bracts rather broad 
strigose, acuminate; flowers all yellow, the ligule variable in 
length but usually quite showy; scales persistent, exceeding 
the achenes, striate, strigose above the middle, conduplicate, 
acute; young achene pubescent at the apex, sometimes 
bearing few pappus bristles; mature achenes of the outer 
flowers triquetrous, those of the inner flowers compressed, 
edges not conspicuous. 
DISTRIBUTION: 
Along the shores of tropical eastern Asia and of all the 
Oriental Pacific islands. 
PHILIPPINES: 
1894-5 Marave 172. 
Luzon: 
Atimonan, Province of Tayabas, August to September 
1904, Whitford 685. 
Mount Mariveles, Province of Bataan, April 1804, 
Whitford. 
Atimonan, Province of Tayabas, August 1904, McGreg- 
ory 91. 
Mount Mariveles, Province of Bataan, September to 
December 1904, Forestry Bureau 1953, collected by 
Borden. 
Manila, April 1902, Merrill 1. 
Baguio, Province of Benguet, March to June 1904, 
Elmer 5967 and 6605. 
MINDORO: 
Baco, January 1903, Merrill 1259. 
Apo, Mindoro Straits, December 1902, Merrill 431. 
PANAY: 
Tugubanhan, January 1904, Copeland 118. 
MINDANAO: 
Tagalaya, Province of Davao, April 1904, Copeland 
1325. 
Davao, April 1903. DeVore and Hoover 149. 
