A74 A FLORA OF MANILA 
1. E. LINIFOLIOUS Willd. 
A stout, or sometimes slender, erect, branched annual 0.5 to 2 m high, 
more or less hirsute. Leaves lanceolate to oblanceolate 6 to 15 cm long, 
1 to 4 cm wide, coarsely toothed or sublobed. Panicles terminal, ample, 
the heads numerous, peduncled, narrowly ovoid, 6 to 7 mm long, the bracts 
green. Flowers greenish-white, many in each head. 
In waste places, occasional, fl. Oct.April; widely distributed in the 
Philippines. A native of Europe, introduced here; now a common weed 
in many warm and tropical countries. 
16. TAGETES Linnaeus 
Erect, branched, usually rank-scented, glabrous herbs, the leaves and 
involucral-bracts with scattered oil-glands. Leaves opposite, pinnately: dis- 
sected or lobed. Heads long-peduncled, medium or large, yellow, solitary. 
Involucre ovoid or cylindric, the bracts 1-seriate, connate nearly to their 
tips. Ray-flowers 1-seriate, female, the ligule entire or 2-toothed, short 
or long; disk-flowers perfect, regular, tubular, limb usually somewhat 
enlarged, 5-fid. Achenes linear, narrowed below, compressed or angled; 
pappus-scales few, aristate. (From Tages, an ancient Tuscan god.) 
Species about 20, natives of tropical America, a few now widely cul- 
tivated, 1 or 2 introduced in the Philippines. 
1. T. ERECTA L. Amarilla (Sp.-Fil.); Marigold. 
A rather coarse, erect, glabrous, branched, rank-smelling annual herb 
0.4 to 1 m high. Leaves 4 to 11 cm long, very deeply pinnatifid, the lobes 
lanceolate, coarsely and sharply toothed, 1 to 2.5 em long. Heads solitary, 
long-peduncled, the peduncle thickened upward, 2.5 to 3.5 cm long, 2 
to 4 cm in diameter, the involucre green. Flowers pale- to deep-yellow. 
Achenes 6 to 7mm long. (FI. Filip. pl. 404.) 
Commonly cultivated, fl. all the year. In most Philippines towns in 
cultivation, in some localities spontaneous and naturalized. A native of 
Mexico. 
17. CHRYSANTHEMUM Linnaeus 
Erect, annual or perennial, aromatic herbs, with alternate, entire, toothed 
or lobed leaves. Heads large, terminal, peduncled, sometimes corymbose. 
Ray-flowers 1-seriate, female, the ligule spreading, white, yellow, or pink; 
disk-flowers numerous, perfect, the limb 4- or 5-fid. Involucre hemispheric 
or broader, the bracts many-seriate, broad. Achenes subterete or angled, 
ribbed or winged; pappus none or short, sometimes a cup or auricle. 
(An ancient Greek name, i. e., “golden flower.’’) 
Species 80 or more in the north temperate zone, 3 introduced and culti- 
vated in the Philippines. 
1. More or less pubescent; leaves pinnately lobed; heads corymbose. 
2. Flowers yellow, with but one or two rows or ray-flowers, usually less 
than-2.5 ¢m.in diameter:,2..=. 52.24.5552 ee 1. C. indicum 
2. Flowers white, yellow, or variously colored, with many rows of ray- 
flowers, exceeding 2.5 cm in diametev.............2.0..--....0------ 2. C. sinense’ 
1. Quite glabrous, the leaves bipinnately parted, when fresh fleshy and 
brittle; heads solitary, long-peduncled, yellow............ 3. C. coronarium 
*1. C. INDICUM L. Manzanilla (Sp.-Fil.). 
An erect or ascending, perennial, aromatic herb 30 to 60 cm high, some- 
what pubescent. Leaves thin, ovate to oblong-ovate in outline, 4 to 6 cm 
