Marca 27, 1915] Two Hunprep Twenty Six New Specres—I 2587 
linear, connective evident, otherwise hyaline; achene red- 
dish brown, hispid, 3.6 mm long, ! mm thick at the 
middle or widest portion, subterete and frequently curved, 
terminated by a central blunt point. 
Type specimen number 13864, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Sept- 
ember, 1912. 
Discovered in fertile soil of an abandoned field in the 
sag between Duros and Cawilanan peaks at 3500 feet eleva- 
tion. Forming dense masses over large dead logs. ‘*Man- 
ungbayay’’ in Manobo. 
Related to Gynura piperi Merr. and to Gynura clementis 
of the same author. In the latter species the leaves are 
usually broadest above the middle; in the former the leaves 
are lanose, entire or nearly so and with but short petioles. 
¥ Gynura apoense Elm. n. sp. 
Old stem 2.5 cm thick, terete, sparingly branched all 
along, 1 to 2.5 m high or long, spreading and reclining 
upon other vegetatidn; twigs or rather branches green, 
suberect, subterete or obscurely fluted, dirty yellowish hairy. 
Leaves alternate, chiefly along the ultimate branches, ascend- 
ing or horizontal, thickly coriaceous though soft in texture, 
light green especially beneath, blackish brown when cured, 
erisply short pubescent on both sides and somewhat viscid, 
oblong, 15 cm long including the stalk, 5 cm wide at about 
the middle, the sharply acute or acuminate apex recurved, 
cuneate toward the occasionally inequilateral and sublyrately 
lobed base, otherwise irregularly and unequally toothed or _ 
crenate and teeth or lobes apiculate, with a pair or more 
of large lobes; petiole 1 to 3 cm long, fulvus hairy, decur- 
rent or with one or more of broad lobes which are similar 
to those of the basal portion of the leaves; stipule broadly 
oblong, entire or obscurely dentate, 1.25 em long, quite alike 
to the petiole ones, like the lamina in texture and hairy- 
ness. Inflorescence erect or nearly erect, limp, 2 dm long 
on my specimen, branched toward the top, the peduncle 
and branches olivaceus tomentose; the ascending branches 
seldom rebranched, terminated by few flowering heads, sub- 
