| Avevst 16, 1906] MANUAL OF THE PHILIPPINE COMPOSÍTAE 
2. S. ovata Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1, Suppl. 3; 
246, 1906.—An erect or straggling herb. Stems and branches | 
slender, terete, smooth, reddish. Leaves opposite, upon 3 
to 5 mm. long strigose petioles, subcoriaceous, triangularly 
ovate, subglabrous on both sides, shining green above, beneath 
conspicuously 3-nerved from the base and paler in color, 
acute, crenately dentate on the margins especially toward the 
base, the pairs 2 to 4 cm. apart. Heads solitary, upon 
slender leafless peduncles terminating the stems and branch- 
es, larger ones 1.5 cm. high, almost 3 cm. in diameter; 
involucre l-seriate, the bracts rather broad, acute, imbricate, 
5 mm. long, finely strigose along the margins; receptacle 
cylindrical or subconical; ligule 1 to 1.5 em. long, showy, 
wholly yellow, 4 mm. wide at the truncate apex which is 
shallowly 3-toothed; disk flowers very numerous, tubular, 3 
mm. long, the 5 obtuse teeth also yellow, subtended by 4 
mm. long yellowish tipped membranous bracts; immature 
achenes compressed, 3 mm. long, ciliate along the edges, 
widest above the middle, with or without 2 fine bristle like 
awns. 
This alpine species is reported rather common in open 
pine regions at 2,100 meters. 
Luzon: 
Mount Data, Province of Lepanto, November 1905, 
Merrill 4573. 
3. S. acmella Linn. Sp. Syst. Veg. 610, 1774. DC. 
Prod. 5; 623, 1836. Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2; 79, 1856. F. Vil. 
Nov. App. 117, 1880. Vid. Cat. Pl. Prov. Manila, 34, 1880: 
Phan. Cuming. Filip. 122, 1885: Rev. Pl. Vasc. Filip. 163, 
1886. Mart. in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. 15; 296, 1883. Ceron 
Cat. Pl. Herb. 103, 1892.  Lautr. wu. Schum. Fl. Deutsch. 
Schutz. Suds. 601, 1901. Hayata in Journ. Coll. Sci. Tokyo 18; 
Art. 8, 20, 1904. Merr. Govt. Lab. Publ. 27; 55, 1905. King 
and Gamb. Mat. Fl. Malay. Penin. 16; 43, 1905. S. lobata 
Bico. Fl. Filip. ed. 1; 622, 1837.—4A much branched erect or 
ascending glabrous herb. Leaves petioled, membranous, ovate 
or oblong, glabrous on both sides, coarsely dentate or ob- 
scurely undulate, 3-nerved from the base, acute. Heads con- 
