180 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. I, AnT.7 
1. A. reflexa Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1, Suppl. 
3; 242, 1906.—Small tufted annual or biennial. Stems scap- 
iform, erect, slender, terete, brown pubescent when young, 
2 to 5 em. high, unbranched. The petiole of the radical 
leaves 1 to 6 cm. long, with a strong midvein and mem- 
branous sides which increase in width toward the blade proper, 
glabrous above, olivaceous pubescent beneath; blade ovate to 
lanceolate, thin, acute, the ovate ones rounded at the base, 
the lanceolate acute or cuneate, with 3 pairs of nerves, 
paler and yellowish pubescent beneath, margins subentire but dis- 
tantly set with slender minute teeth. Inflorescence loosely spic- 
ate along the upper half of the scape; heads reflexed, 1 to 
3-clustered, sessile or subsessile, subtended by small foliaceous 
bracts, those in anthesis 1 em. long; involucral bracts very 
unequal, numerous, apex sharply acuminate and reddish tipped, 
the outer ones short and with broad bases, the inner linear 
and with involute edges, glabrous or often finely pubescent; 
flowers 3 to 5 in each head; achene 4 mm. long, 1 mm. 
wide toward the apex, compressed, striate and light brown 
pubescent on the outer side, less pubescent on the inner 
one; pappus equal, persistent, 7 mm. long, plumosely hairy 
nearly to the base. 
This species is said to be common in the rain forests 
at 2,350 meters. 
PHILIPPINES: 
Loher 3620 and 3621. 
Luzon: 
Mount Data, Province of Lepanto, November 1905, 
Merrill 4511. 
Mount Santo Tomas, Province of Benguet, October to 
November 1905, Merrill 4824. 
| XI. CICHORIEAE. 
Herbs with milky juice. Leaves radical or alternate 
never opposite. Heads homogamous. Corollas all ligulate; 
ligule truncate, apex 5-toothed. Anther bases sagittate, rarely 
tailed. Style arms slender. 
Pappus of a few series of short, blunt scales. 
57. CICHORIUM. 
