2588 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY - [Voz. VII, Arr. 114 
tended by linear paberulent bracts, the lower ones of which 
are 2 em long, white, the: upper ones 5 to 8 em long and 
setaceously pointed; pedicels 1 to 2 cm long, yellowish short 
hairy, terete, curved, subtended by similar bracteoles; calyx 
deep cup shaped, 1.25 to 1.5 cm long, the segments com- 
posed of 2 distinct series, the basal series of braets relatively 
short, linear, spreading, averaging 5 mm long, scattering, 
unequal in length, 0.5 to 0.75 mm wide, gradually tapering 
to the distal ends, hairy; the inner series of bracts green 
Or purplish on the exposed side, also unequal in width, 
hyaline margined, acuminately pointed, the brown thickened 
middle portion pubescent along the back, 2 to 3-veined, 
‘grown together at the base and persistent; receptacle nearly 
flat, grayish pubescent; flowers numerous, odorless, deep 
yellow, suberect, apparently all discoid; ovary 0.5 mm thick, 
1.5 mm long, subterete or slightly compressed, glabrous, 
widest across the middle and longitudinally striate, rim-like 
at both ends, the basal end provided with a mucronate point; 
corolla 1.25 em long, slenderly tubular except the upper 
3 mm which is slenderly turbinate, 1.5 mm wide across 
the acutely 5-toothed apex, glabrous; stamens 5, included; 
filaments 1.25 mm long or shorter, very fibrillose, inserted 
at the bottom of the enlarge apical portion of the corolla; 
anther 1.75 mm long, linear, contiguous about the style, 
roundly truncate at the base, obtusely pointed at the apex, | 
sides hyaline, style slender, glabrous; the 2 stigmatic lobes ex- 
erted, 2 mm long, ultimately much recurved, subcompress- 
ed and puberulent along the upper side; pappus 1 cm long, 
copiovs, silky, white, with shorter ones interspersed, smooth 
or toward the free ends very faintly hispidulous. 
Type specimen number 11584, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. 
Found this perennial plant in wet earth upon stony 
banks of the Cati creek at 6000 teet elevation on the north- 
eastern side of the mountain after which it is named. Its 
vernacular or Bagobo name is ''Tagamayig." 
Most closely related to Gynura vidaliana Elm. and to 
Gynura clementis Merr. 
