:2590 LEAFLETS oF PHILIPPINE Botany [Vor. VII, Arr. 114 
subhyaline; style slender, its clavate stigma erect and ex- 
ceeding the corolla; most of the peripheral flowers ligulate, 
white to pink, ligule 0.75 mm long and 0.5 mm wide, 
strongly divergent, pubescent on the outside at the base, 
otherwise glabrous, the middle region thick, margins thin- 
ner, apex broadly rounded, more or less conduplicate; ligu- 
late style straight, a trifle longer than the disk, bifid at 
the base, well surrounded by the ligule and falling with it; 
achene smooth, glabrous, 0.66 mm wide, almost 2 mm long, 
compressed, a trifle wider above the middle, constricted and 
bluntly pointed at the apex. 
Type specimen number 11507, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, August, 1909. 
Upon water soaked moss covered rocks strewn along the 
Cati creek at 5750 feet altitude of the east to northeastern 
side of mount Apo. ''Casarang" in Bagobo. 
35 Vernonia pulgarensis Elm. n. sp. 
Climbing upon small trees; stem terete, 2.5 em thick, 
very flexible and subherbaceous; the outer wood tissue green- 
ish and radially marked, the inner yellowish and with a 
large pith, odorless, a trifle sweet; bark yellowish and with 
a green hypodermis, more or less roughened with blunt 
lenticels or excrescences; main branches long, freely rebranch- 
ed, very deep green, also terete, finely striate, ultimately 
glabrate, the young portion of the twigs short pubescent or 
puberulent, the free ends drooping. Leaves ascending, limp, 
very deep green and subvelvety on the upper nearly flat 
and subglabrate surface, ater when dry, paler beneath when 
fresh, subolivaceus and short pubescent on the nether side 
after being cured, membranous, entire or minutely apiculate, 
broadly rounded or obtuse at the base, rounded or obtuse 
toward the apiculate apex, elliptic, exceedingly variable in 
size, the lower blades 13 cm long by 7.5 cm wide at the 
middle, the upper ones only one third as large, alterna- 
tingly scattered; petiole 1.25 to 2 cm long, dark olivaceus 
short tomentose, flattened especially along the upper side; 
midrib very pronounced and densely pubescent beneath, pul- 
verulent along the plane upper side; lateral nerves 5 to 7 
