Marca 27, 1915] Two Hunprep Twenty Six New Sercies—1 2589 
J% Myriactis mindanaensis Elm. n. sp. 
Solitary or forming masses, bi or perennials, 1 to 2 din 
high; roots slender, fibrous but not fleshy, whitish; stem 
wand-like and suberect toward the top, green at the base, 
subligneous, solitary or few clustered from the same root 
iluster, greatly varying in length from 1 em to 1 dm, long- 
tudinally fluted, glabrate or pulverulent, few branched to- 
ward the top. Leaves alternate, mainly ascending, membra- 
nous, 3 to 5 cm long or even longer with the petiole, 2 
em wide across the top or the smaller ones only one half 
as wide, lyrately lobed into linear lobes, the terminal lobe 
largest and usually with a pair of lateral lobes and which 
are frequently again lobulate or merely toothed, deep shin- 
ing green above, paler beneath, curing dull brown, sparsely 
pubescent on both sides, the upper blades trifidus, the up- 
permost ones linear and reduced to mere braets; stalks of 
the basal leaves slender, glabrate or strigose, petiole-like, 
that of the cauline leaves well decurrent and subclasping 
the stem or branch. Peduncle terminating the stem or bran- 
ches, ascendingly curved toward the base, provided with 
small leaves, slender, from 5 to 15 em long, longitudinally 
striate, dark straw brown when dry, green or yellowish 
green when fresh, sparingly strigose, above the middle scape- 
like, terminated by a single 6 mm thick head of very 
numerous flowers or seeds; involucre green, when old spread- 
ing, 7.5 mm across, persistent, united at the base; segments 
numerous, imbricated, glabrous, the outer few a trifle shorter, 
all 0.75 mm long, the longer ones 3 mm in length, roundly 
obtuse at the apex and very minutely ciliate, submembranous; 
receptacle circular, 1.5 mm across, flat, very rough; ovary 
1.5 mm long, compressed, obovate or oblanceolate, glabrous; 
central or discoid flowers greenish with a corolla 1.5 mm 
long, the basal one fourth much constricted, the upper portion 
much expanded and at least 1 mm across the 5-lobed 
apex, glabrous; stamens 5 and included, the short filaments 
thread-like and inserted upon the corolla below the middle; 
anthers yellow, syngenecious, 0.5 mm long, a trifle wider 
toward the truncately rounded base, apex obtuse or rounded, 
