Marca 27, 1915] Two Honprep Twenty Six New Sprcies—I 2557 
on the ventral side and with subhyaline margins, oblong, ob- 
scurely 3-veined along the middle region, apex bluntly ob- 
tuse and frequently finely ciliate; ovary 1.5 mm long, gla- 
brate or only obscurely pubescent, a trifle narrowed toward 
the base; corolla yellowish white below the middle, purple 
above, 4.5 mm long, glabrous, tubular, 1 mm thick at the 
apex or its widest portion, terminated by 5 short acute or 
triangular teeth; pappus sordid or subolivaceus, 4 mm long, 
very linear, glabrate or obscurely hispidulous, occasionally 
shorter ones interspersed; filaments very fine, 5, glabrous, 
1.5 mm long, inserted upon the middle portion of the cor- 
olla tube; anthers as many, included, contiguous about 
the style, 1.5 mm long, very linear, truncate at the base, 
obtusely rounded at the apex; style glabrous except the fine- 
ly pubescent base, exceeding the corolla, at the apex di- 
vided into 2 linear stigmatic nearly 2 to 3 mm long lobes. 
Type specimen number 11506, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
mt (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. 
Climbing upon shrubberies along the Cati creek above 
its falls at 5750 feet elevation on the northeastern side of 
mount Apo. The local natives or Bagobos call it “Taraca.” 
In my opinion it distinct from Eupatorium sambucifolium 
Elm. of northern Luzon. 
ww Gynura agusanense Elm. n. sp. 
Widely sprawling herbs; main branches long, repeatedly 
rebranched, 1 cm thick, terete, green and densely mottled 
along the upper or exposed sides with atroviolaceus, glabrate; 
ultimate branches striate, covered with crisp olivaceus hairs, 
alternate, relatively short, erect or ascending, the terminal 
ones bearing flowers. Leaves limp, ascending or the small 
apical ones erect, pale green on both sides, dull yellowish 
brown or nearly black when dry, odorous when crushed, short 
crinkly pubescent when young, puberulent on both sides 
when old, the lower or lamina 6.5 cm long by 3 cm wide 
toward the base, broadly rounded at the base and subentire, 
gradually tapering to the acute or more often acuminate 
- apex, lateral sides dentate, the terminal blades much reduc- 
ed and broadly lanceolate, otherwise ovately elongated or 
