COMPOSITAE 877 
MIKANIA Willdenow 
Knautia sagittata Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 54 (sp. nov.) ; ed. 2 (1845) 36; 
ed. 3, 1 (1877) 67=MIKANIA SCANDENS Willd. 
The species is widely distributed in the Philippines, but has 
every appearance of having been introduced; it is not a true 
native of the Archipelago. Blanco’s description of Knautia 
sagittata unmistakably applies to Willdenow’s species. 
Illustrative specimen from Taytay, Palawan, May, 1913 (Mer- 
rill: Species Blancoanae No. 578). 
GRANGEA Adanson 
Perdicium tomentosum Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 630; ed. 2 (1845) 439; ed. 
3, 3 (1879) 21, non Thunb.=GRANGEA MADERASPATANA (aun.) 
Poir. 
This weed is of local occurrence in the Philippines, growing 
in and about towns at low altitudes in the settled areas. It is 
undoubtedly an introduced plant in the Archipelago. 
Illustrative specimen from Calumpit, Bulacan Province, Luzon, 
December, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 657). 
ERIGERON Linnaeus 
Baccharis ivaefolia Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 627; ed. 2 (1845) 437; ed. 3, 
3 (1879) 16, non Linn. =ERIGERON LINIFOLIUS Willd. 
Blanco’s species was reduced by Fernandez-Villar to Conyza 
viscidula Wall., to which the description does not at all apply. 
The only Philippine species in the entire family that agrees at 
all closely with Blanco’s description is Erigeron linifolius Willd., 
and I have no doubt that Willdenow’s species is the one he in- 
tended; it is a weed in the settled areas throughout the Philip- 
pines and is especially abundant in recently cleared lands. 
Illustrative specimen from Taytay, Palawan, May, 1913 (Mer- 
rill: Species Blancoamae No. 367). 
BLUMEA de Candolle 
Conyza balsamifera Linn.; Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 628; ed. 2 (1845) 438; 
ed. 3, 3 (1879) 18, t. 403=BLUMEA BALSAMIFERA (Linn.) DC. 
This species is common and widely distributed in the Philip- 
pines in the settled areas at low and medium altitudes; probably 
introduced and of prehistoric introduction. It is widely known 
as sambong. 
Illustrative specimen from Antipolo, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
January, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blanecoanae No. 439). 
Conyza dentata Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 629, non Linn.=Conyza cappa 
Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 438; ed. 3, 3 (1879) 18, non Ham. = 
BLUMEA LACERA DC,, var. 
Fernandez-Villar considered that Blanco correctly interpreted 
