184 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. I, Arr. 7 1 
ings faint, terminating into slender beaks; pappus spreading, 
light brown, persistent upon the small disk. 
DISTRIBUTION: 
Japan. 
Luzon: 
Twin Peaks, Province of Benguet, May 1904, Elmer 
6387. 
Bagabag, Province of Nuevo Viscaya, June 1902, Merrill 
150. 
MINDANAO: 
Sibulan River, Province of Davao, April 1904, Copeland 
1312. 
59. CREPIS LINN. 
Annual or perennial herbs, glabrous or hairy. Leaves 
radical or alternate, mostly toothed or pinnatifid. Heads 
homogamous, usually loosely paniculate or corymbose, yellow 
or orange colored; involucre cylindric, often swollen at the 
base, its bracts in one series with a few basal ones; recep- 
tacle nearly flat, naked or short fibrillose; ligules truncate 
and 5-toothed; anther bases sagittate; style branches slen- 
der; achenes linear oblong, 10 to 20-nerved, attenuate at the 
base and apex, without proper beaks; pappus dense, of soft 
white hair. 
Species 170; chiefly in the northern hemisphere of the 
old world. 
I. C. japonica (DC.) Benth. Fl. Hongk. 194, 1861: FI. 
Austr. 3; 679, 1866. Vid. Phan. Cuming. Filip. 122, 1885. 
Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. 3;395, 1881. Rolfe in Journ. Bot. 23; 
213, 1885. Vid. Rev. Pl. Vasc. Filip. 164, 1886.  Lautr. u. 
Schum. Fl. Deutsch. Schutz. Suds. 603, 1901. Hayata in Journ. 
Coll. Sci. Tokyo 18; Art. 8, 36,1904. King and Gamb. Mat. FI. 
Malay. Penin. 16; 48, 1905. Youngia japonica DC. Prod. 7; 194, 
1839.—Delicate acaulescent herbs. Basal leaves thin, subglabrous 
on both sides, petioled, linear, obovate in outline, the ter- 
minal lobe oblong, obscurely lobed or incised along the 
petiole, entire or minutely apiculate. Heads small, upon 
